The former Prime Minister of New Zealand spoke about her “expectation bias” at the inaugural TIME100 Climate Leadership Forum.
acinda Ardern, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, is prioritizing optimism in the movement to combat the climate crisis—as well as expectation for leaders to do their jobs. If we resign ourselves to destruction, she says, politicians will never act to prioritize sustainability and reversing the effects of climate change.
Under Ardern’s leadership from 2017 to 2023, New Zealand introduced a Zero Carbon Act, and she established an independent Climate Commission as well as the Centre for Climate Action on Agricultural Emissions. She also chaired her government’s cross agency board on climate change, producing the nation’s first Emissions Reduction Plan.
When asked about prioritizing innovation in the climate sphere, Ardern said that she “cannot understand why we still have the existence of” fossil fuel subsidies—a remark that was met with applause from the crowd. She spoke to Jacobs and the crowd about her perspective as both an insider to politics—well-versed in the ways that the public can criticize the rate of change in governments—and an outsider, to U.S. politics in particular.
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