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NZ’s clean car discount is a turn in the right direction, but how much will it drive consumer demand?

  • Written by Basil Sharp, Professor of Energy Economics, University of Auckland
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New Zealand faces two enormous challenges if it is to meet its international climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement: biogenic methane emissions from agriculture, and carbon emissions from industry and transport.

For now, there seems little prospect of significantly reducing agricultural emissions, short of reducing...

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