An interesting contrast...
A. In New Zealand, Janet Clarke commits to 90% powered by renewable energy by 2025.
B. In Australia, John Howard commits to a 15% renewable energy target by 2020, which the Government admits is simply the sum total of existing and planned targets under the Commonwealth and states' energy target schemes.
It should be noted that note that NZ is already 70% powered by renewables - mainly from hydroelectric dams, with geothermal a secondary source. Clarke also hopes New Zealand will someday be completely carbon neutral - I'm sure they also have lots of wind. Further NZ goals are a 2040 target for reducing by half per capita emissions from transport, widely introducing electric vehicles and achieving a net increase in forest area of 250,000 hectares (617,000 acres) by 2020.
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