12 Mar 21
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New Zealand commits to decarbonise transport

New Zealand has passed the Climate Change Response Act, a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030. The government has also announced the entire state fleet will convert to electric by 2025.

Today, 22% of all net emissions in New Zealand are produced by transport, and 90% of those emissions are from road transport.

Electrifying road transport will be an important part of this transition and the challenge is big. In 2020, only 3% of cars entering New Zealand were electric. To date, only 24,500 out of 3.8 million light vehicles on the roads are electric.

Image: Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand PM (Shutterstock)

Authored by: Benjamin Uyttebroeck