New Zealand's government will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as part of a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The government says it plans to spend $NZ569 million on the trial program as part of a larger plan that includes subsidies for businesses to reduce emissions, a switch to an entirely green bus fleet by 2035 and curb-side food-waste collection for most homes by the end of the decade.
The plan represents a step toward the pledges the nation made under the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change and New Zealand's stated goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.Ms Ardern, who was scheduled to launch the plan but cancelled, said every community and sector had a role to play and that reducing reliance on fossil fuels would help shield households from volatile price hikes.
New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson, centre, ahead of the government's emissions reduction plan announcement. And some critics said it continued to give an easy ride to the nation's huge agriculture industry, which creates about half of the nation's total greenhouse gas emissions but is also vital to the economy as the nation's biggest export earner.
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