New Zealand Herald: The Government has adopted a soft unilateral target for reducing carbon emissions by 2020, but Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said a future Government might lift it, should progress towards an international agreement post-2020 warrant it.
He announced yesterday that New Zealand had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.
It is an end-point target, unlike the target for the first period of the Kyoto Protocol, which was to reduce average emissions...