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Greenpeace New Zealand puts on a solar powered sausage sizzle outside of parliament today under the banner 'All sizzle no sausage' to highlight the difference between political talk and substantial actions on climate change.
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In recent months, both Labour leader Helen Clark and National leader John Key have been engaging in a lot of talk about climate change but neither has come up with any real solutions to the problem. We need real action on climate change not glib slogans and empty promises.
Despite our clean green image New Zealand ranks ninth worst for increasing emissions among the developed countries that signed up to the Kyoto Protocol. The greenhouse gas intensity of our economy is fourth highest in the OECD and our greenhouse gas emissions per capita are in the top 12 countries worldwide. If every country produced our levels of greenhouse gases, the world wouldn't stand a chance.
If we want to avoid the most catastrophic climate impacts, New Zealand must play its part. We must reduce emissions 30% from 1990 levels by 2020 and 90% by 2050. To do so, we need more than an emissions trading scheme and a lot more than slogans such as "carbon neutrality" or "50 by 50."
Each of us need to call on New Zealand's political leaders to set meaningful emission reduction targets, put a price on all greenhouse gas pollution, and implement effective policies that encourage environmentally friendly renewable energy, energy efficiency, public transport.
Greenpeace will be doing its bit to urge political leaders to act but you can help by using this form to send a message direct to the two main party leaders.
Please enter your full name and email address and edit the message below before pressing send.
The message will be emailed directly to prime Minister Helen Clark and John Key the leader of the National Party.
Despite our clean green image New Zealand ranks ninth worst for increasing emissions among the developed countries that signed up to the Kyoto Protocol. The greenhouse gas intensity of our economy is fourth highest in the OECD and our greenhouse gas emissions per capita are in the top 12 countries worldwide. If every country produced our levels of greenhouse gases, the world wouldn't stand a chance.
If we want to avoid the most catastrophic climate impacts, New Zealand must play its part. We must reduce emissions 30% from 1990 levels by 2020 and 90% by 2050. To do so, we need more than an emissions trading scheme and a lot more than slogans such as "carbon neutrality" or "50 by 50."
Each of us need to call on New Zealand's political leaders to set meaningful emission reduction targets, put a price on all greenhouse gas pollution, and implement effective policies that encourage environmentally friendly renewable energy, energy efficiency, public transport.
Greenpeace will be doing its bit to urge political leaders to act but you can help by using this form to send a message direct to the two main party leaders.
Please enter your full name and email address and edit the message below before pressing send.
The message will be emailed directly to prime Minister Helen Clark and John Key the leader of the National Party.
