The Prime Minister’s chief science advisor, Dame Juliet Gerrard, admitted to The AM Show there is a “bit of jiggery-pokery” with the numbers.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the new target “represents our fair share” on the global stage. But an Oxfam report last year found that to meet its fair share, New Zealand’s target needed to be between 80 to 133 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.