As New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern took the world stage at the United Nations Action Summit on Climate Change, protesters called her out for hypocrisy back home.
Climate activists backed by the international grass-roots group Extinction Rebellion protested at Rotowaro, Huntly, against the government granting a coal exploration permit on crown land.
The action, at 10 a.m. on Sept. 23 on Coal Haulage Rd., coincided with the opening of the U.N. summit in New York and worldwide protests running from Sept. 20 to 27 to demand action on limiting human-caused global warming and the devastation it’s causing to all life on the planet.
Our message to Ardern, who is a key-note speaker at the summit, is: how can you talk about fighting climate change while expanding coal mining at home?
In August, at the Pacific Islands Forum, Arden said that Australia, a coal exporter, would have to “answer to the Pacific” on climate change.
New Zealand, too, has to answer to the Pacific.
We have established a NZD$100 million green investment fund and created a NZD$300 million fund supporting climate mitigation and adaptation in the Pacific,” Jacinda Ardern
https://pacificenvironmentweekly.com/…/ardern-makes…/…
Last month at the Pacific Forum meeting in Tuvalu, Enele Sopoaga, the prime minster of Tuvalu said money was not enough.
“No matter how much money you put on the table, it doesn’t give you the excuse to not to do the right thing, which is to cut down on your emissions, including not opening your coalmines,” he said. “That is the thing that we want to see.” Enele Sopoaga
https://www.theguardian.com/…/australia-coal-pacific…
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/06/waikato-coal-exploration-permit-for-bathurst-resources-branded-hypocritical.html
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