Greens co-leader James Shaw says Labour shouldn’t count on its support in upcoming election amid glacial progress on emissions
Those reforms have come with costs – most recently to an array of legislation and reform projects designed to counter the climate crisis. In the latest two swathes of announcements, policies dumped or delayed included a biofuel mandate, a “cash for clunkers” scheme that allowed people to trade in old, high-emissions vehicles for cleaner alternatives, the expansion of many regional public transport networks, and light rail plans for Auckland.
While none of the cut policies alone were expected to make an enormous dent in New Zealand’s emissions profile – Hipkins has called them “a very, very small contribution to our overall emissions reduction targets” – their collective scrapping contributed a picture of a government closing down some of its low emissions pathways to focus its energies on paving a highway to re-election.
“It is a new administration, essentially,” he says, comparing Hipkins’ government with Ardern’s, but says the relationship is still strong.“There’s a lot that we agree on. But there are also things where we disagree, or we would prioritise things differently. And so you would expect a bit of friction around those things. That’s not unusual.”
“We have done a pretty good job of the governments that we’ve been given. But with only two ministers, both outside cabinet, we don’t always get what we want.”
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