Jacinda Ardern challenges world leaders to follow NZ’s ‘unashamedly ambitious’ climate change policies

September 28, 2018

Jacinda Ardern issued a challenge to world leaders during her speech to the UN, after listing New Zealand's "unashamedly ambitious" climate change plans. 

"Any undermining of climate related targets and agreements aren't interesting footnotes in geopolitical history, they are catastrophic," the Prime Minister told the audience. 

"In New Zealand we are we determined to play our part."

"We will not issue any further offshore oil and gas exploration permits. We have set a goal of 100 per cent renewable energy generation by 2035, established a green infrastructure fund to encourage innovation and rolled out an initiative to plant one billion trees over the next 10 years. 

She said the plans were "unashamedly ambitious" as "the threat climate change poses demands it". 

"As politicians and Governments, we all have choices. The international institutions we have committed ourselves to have not been perfect. But they can be fixed. 

"That is why the challenge I wish to issue today is this: Together we must rebuild and recommit to multi-lateralism."

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