For their weekly catch-up, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Green Party Co-leader James Shaw about recent reports of attacks against political candidates and how the Green party believes we can advance the interests of farming in a climate-crisis world.
Last week Prime Minister Chris Hipkins firmly ruled out implementing a wealth and capital gains tax if they were re-elected, despite current polls showing that Labour will need the support of the Green Party if they wish to form government.
To discuss this decision by the Prime Minister, as well as a discussion about the ruling out of the High Court last week that found that the government must reconsider the decisions they have made on the settings of the Emissions Trading Scheme, producer Emilia Sullivan spoke to the co-leader of the Green Party, James Shaw.
Here at the University over the weekend, the Green Party held their annual general meeting where they revealed their manifesto to voters ahead of this year’s election.
To discuss the meeting and the party’s policy announcements, Emilia Sullivan spoke to Green Party co-leader James Shaw.
Last week the Green Party announced their ‘Pledge to Renters’, a housing policy that would implement rent controls, a landlord register and a rental warrant of fitness, among other things.
Announcing the policy, co-leaders James Shaw and Marama Davidson said that in the first 100 days of a new government, the Green Party would implement this housing policy to ensure that “everyone who rents always has a safe, healthy and affordable place to call home".
To discuss the policy, Emilia Sullivan spoke to Green Party co-leader James Shaw
This week the government released a series of options for public consultation on reforming the emissions trading scheme.
The emissions trading scheme is a market run by the government where polluters buy carbon credits to emit, however, a review of the scheme by the Climate Change Commission sez that the current settings of the ETS may ‘threaten’ New Zealand’s climate goals.
To discuss the ETS reforms and the options that are being floated, Emilia Sullivan spoke to Green Party Co-Leader and Climate Change Minister, James Shaw.
The Green Party of Aotearoa announced a range of policies over the weekend, particularly focusing on tax reform. Co-leader of the Greens James Shaw spoke with Simon about these announcements, and also discussed the news that Labour is allowing an Australian mining billionaire to prospect on conservation land. Simon began by asking what the income guarantee is.
In this week's chat with James Shaw, Emilia Sullivan chats to the Green Party co-leader about his announcement of a $140 million subsidy to NZ Steel to transition away from burning coal, as well as a reflection on last week’s Budget and the Green Party candidate list ahead of the General Election later this year.
Last week the Climate Change Commission released its draft advice to inform the direction to achieving the Government’s Emissions targets for 2026 to 2030. It called for strong and urgent changes to emissions reduction policies as well as reforms to the Emissions Trading Scheme.
In our weekly chat with the Green Party co-leader, Emilia Sullivan spoke to James Shaw about the Climate Change Commission’s advice.
This week for our weekly chat with James Shaw, Emilia Sullivan chats to the Green Party co-leader about the Green’s list selection, the climate news coming out of the UN General Assembly, a farewell to Jacinda Ardern, and more.
In this week’s chat with the co-leader of the Green Party, Emilia spoke with James Shaw about this week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shows we only have a small window remaining to avoid the planet warming 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, and how his party thinks our progress on emissions reductions has gone.
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