Clark’s hollow record on climate change

It is now just six months before the election, and Helen Clark’s record on climate change is more hollow than anyone could have imagined.

The last set of greenhouse gas figures, before the election, was released this week, and NZ is 26% over its Kyoto target. By comparison Australia and the UK are on target to meet their target.

Now Labour in defence says that okay we may have an appaling actual record, but we do have some good policy. But what is the record:

• Biofuels legislation slammed by Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
• Tradeable Emissions scheme legislation slammed as near useless by Greenpeace
• The deforestation disaster
• The Fart tax debacle (the issue wasn’t that it was a tax so much as the hypocrisy of taxing for carbon debits and not letting farmers share in carbon credits)

So as we get subjected to a barrage of taxpayer funded propaganda telling us about our wonderful carbon neutral aspiring Government, just remember than not only has the Government failed to reduce emissions, it has not even managed to stop them growing year after year.