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School Strikes for Climate's Response to the Infrastructure Spend w/ Coco Lovatt

School Strikes for Climate's response to the infrastructure spend w/ Coco Lovatt

School Strikes for Climate's Response to the Infrastructure Spend w/ Coco Lovatt School Strikes for Climate's Response to the Infrastructure Spend w/ Coco Lovatt, 4.34 MB
Monday, February 3, 2020

Last Wednesday the coalition government announced spending on infrastructure, putting 8 billion towards reading, public transport, schools and hospitals. 78% of this has gone towards road projects, such as road widening in state highway 1 between Whangarei and port Marsden, the Mill road project and the Tauranga northern link. With only 2.4 billion left for public transport, schools and hospitals among other infrastructure, groups such as Generation Zero are disappointed at this step back from the Zero Carbon act which was bought into law this year, with transport currently contributes for 40% of our carbon emissions each year. That being said, pressure has been taken off local councils, especially Auckland council, with projects such as a walking and bike path under the harbour bridge now being funded. James talked to Coco Lovatt, a member of Schools strike for climate, about how they've looked at this announcement and what they'd like to see in the future.