Think about this

The NZ Herald fact checks John Key and finds carbon emissions in NZ have grown even faster than what he said in the debate (mind you I think he was referring to emissions under Clark’s Government while the Herald is referring to since 1990).

Peter Neilson of the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development defends his former Caucus colleague Helen saying:

As the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development points out it is all a bit more complicated than it seems.

Chief executive Peter Neilson said that while the reality was that New Zealand emissions had been increasing, that was because our economy had been growing.

Many of the countries with reduced emissions were in recession .

So this means that the Government is now sucessfuly reducing emissions, by having the economy go into recession. Hey if we turn the recession into a depression, then we’ll make our 1990 target easily!