Decarbonisation can be a national investment
Much of the resistance to rapid decarbonisation makes the claim that countries cannot afford these new technologies.
This may have been true once, but the falling costs and growing advantages of cleaner technologies have flipped this around. Many nations are now seeing this transition as cost-neutral, or even beneficial, with a recent OECD-UNDP report laying out the evidence that “accelerating climate action is not only feasible, it also makes economic sense. What do the costs look like for New Zealand?