5.21.2007
NZ Invited to California Clean-up (NZHerald.co.nz)
5:00AM Monday May 21, 2007
By Tim Watkin
California has invited New Zealand to join its battle against pollution, offering local businesses the potential to enter a ground-breaking market with the world's sixth largest economy.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's chief environmental adviser, Terry Tamminen, said New Zealand would be "more than welcome" to join the Californian-centred emissions trading market, due to launch in 2012.
"We'd come down there in a heartbeat [to negotiate]," Mr Tamminen told the Listener magazine.
"And Governor Schwarzenegger would be pleased to welcome your leadership here."
California is leading climate change legislation in the United States, and its commitment to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels, or around 22 per cent, by 2020, has attracted interest and praise from around the world.
(More ... New Zealand Herald > News > National)
By Tim Watkin
California has invited New Zealand to join its battle against pollution, offering local businesses the potential to enter a ground-breaking market with the world's sixth largest economy.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's chief environmental adviser, Terry Tamminen, said New Zealand would be "more than welcome" to join the Californian-centred emissions trading market, due to launch in 2012.
"We'd come down there in a heartbeat [to negotiate]," Mr Tamminen told the Listener magazine.
"And Governor Schwarzenegger would be pleased to welcome your leadership here."
California is leading climate change legislation in the United States, and its commitment to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels, or around 22 per cent, by 2020, has attracted interest and praise from around the world.
(More ... New Zealand Herald > News > National)
Labels: Climate Change, NZ Herald
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