NZ emissions stall, threaten climate targets

New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission warns that emissions reductions are stalling and the country is at high risk of missing its 2031–2035 budgets and 2050 targets unless the pace more than doubles in the next 1–2 years, with action now critical. Key gaps include scrapped agricultural methane pricing, fragile emissions trading signals, and insufficient progress on deploying low‑emission technologies like electric vehicles, solar, and heat pumps to close the policy and implementation gap.