, which the activist shared with her 4.4 million followers.
It is not clear whether Thunberg thought a 1 per cent reduction was the only emissions-cutting action New Zealand was taking, however the tweet caused a stir, with Shaw saying the government was working as quickly as possible and pointing to the carbon-cutting legal frameworks the Labour-NZ First coalition passed in its previous term.
However, nothing announced so far would shrink emissions enough by 2030 to help the world stay under 1.5 degrees heating, which is the goal of both Thunberg’s movement and the government's own Zero Carbon Act.For example, the current cap on how many emissions units are allowed to be auctioned under the Emissions Trading Scheme would lower the country's greenhouse gas output by only about 3 per cent next year, below business-as-usual .