Question

Can you describe any significant impact(s) Greta’s climate action has had on New Zealand?

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

Climate change in New Zealand is the change in climate of New Zealand in relation to the global climate change. [2] [3] In 2014, New Zealand contributed 0.17% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions. [needs update] However, on a per capita basis, New Zealand is a significant emitter – the 21st largest contributor in the world and the fifth largest within the OECD. [4]

New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions are increasing. Between 1990 and 2017, New Zealand's gross emissions (excluding removals from land use and forestry) increased by 23.1%. [needs update] When the absorption of carbon dioxide by forests is taken into account, net emissions (including removal from land use and forestry) have also increased – by 64.9% since 1990. [5] [6] [needs update]

Civil society and the New Zealand government are responding to climate change in a variety of ways. This includes participation in international treaties and social and political debates related to climate change. New Zealand has an emissions trading scheme and as of 1 July 2010, the energy and liquid fossil fuels and some industry sectors have an emissions-reporting and emissions-reporting units.There are obligations to obtain and surrender (carbon credits). In May 2019, in response to commitments made in Paris in 2016, the government introduced the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill, which created a climate change commission responsible for advising government-led policies. [7] [8]

Answer 2

Three moments that made Greta Thunberg a global figure

1. School strikes

Thunberg started protesting outside the Swedish parliament in 2018, when she was 15.

She held a sign saying "School Strike for Climate", to pressure the government to meet carbon emissions targets.

Her small campaign had a global effect, inspiring thousands of young people across the world to organise their own strikes.

By December 2018, more than 20,000 students - from the UK to Japan - had joined her by skipping school to protest.

A year later, she received the first of three Nobel Peace Prize nominations for climate activism.

2. Challenging world leaders at the United Nations

In 2019, Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic on a yacht to attend a UN climate conference in New York.

Delivering what is probably her most famous speech, she angrily told world leaders they were not doing enough.

"You all come to us young people for hope. How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," she said.

3. Sparring with Trump and Putin

Thunberg was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year in December 2019.

Her growing fame caught the attention of world leaders, not all of them supportive.

Donald Trump, who was US president at the time, tweeted that she should "work on her anger management problem" and go to "a good old fashioned movie with a friend".

Thunberg then changed her Twitter bio to: "A teenager working on her anger management problem."

She changed it again to quote Russian President Vladimir Putin's description of her as a "kind but poorly informed teenager".