New Zealand Leader Stands By Climate Stance Amid UN Calls for Urgent Action

Published on August 27, 2024

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters—in Tonga for the Pacific Islands Forum—has maintained his contrasting position on climate change to visiting U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Guterres opened the event on Aug. 26 warning that countries still looking for oil and gas deposits, such as Australia and New Zealand, were “signing away our future.” The next day, he appealed for “a surge in funds to deal with surging seas” and called climate change a “crisis entirely of humanity’s making” and a “worldwide catastrophe putting this Pacific paradise in peril.” With many Pacific nations worried by rising sea levels and an increased number of severe weather events, climate change has dominated the Forum’s agenda....

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