新西兰政府周一表示,将设立一个45亿新西兰元(28亿美元)的气候响应基金,在未来四年至少投入29亿新西兰元用于减少污染,目标是到2050年实现净零排放。
该计划将资金投入到一系列广泛的活动中,包括让电动汽车更容易获得,减少进入垃圾填埋场的食物,改善公共交通和卡车的排放,以及帮助工业去碳。
新西兰政府还将对部分燃煤锅炉实行禁令,并表示将从2025年起在其关键的农业部门引入排放定价机制。
新西兰政府表示,新的气候应急基金最初将从排放交易计划收入中获得45亿新西兰元,其中29亿新西兰元将在本周的预算中分配。
新西兰总理杰辛达·阿德恩(Jacinda Ardern)在一份声明中说,新的减排计划“为我们提供了几十年来应对气候变化的最大机会,同时也向高工资、低排放的经济转变,通过创造就业机会提供更大的经济保障。”阿德恩在感染新冠病毒后错过了该计划的发布。
新西兰政府文件称,截至2025年12月31日,减排力度最大的将是能源、工业和交通领域,每个领域都要发挥作用。
该预算将为交通部门拨出13亿新西兰元,用于诸如让人们使用电动汽车、货运和公共交通部门脱碳以及减少短途汽车旅行需求等项目。另外还有3.8亿新西兰元用于农业,6.92亿新西兰元用于能源部门。
“我们将直接将污染成本回收,再投入到减少排放的项目中。这意味着付出代价的是污染者而不是民众。”财政部长格兰特·罗伯逊在一份声明中说。
新西兰政府表示,45亿新西兰元中的8.65亿新西兰元已被分配给国际气候融资和脱碳基金。
该基金将由排放交易计划(Emissions Trading Scheme)未来的收入补充。
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New Zealand Targets EVs, Industry with New $2.8 Billion Climate Response Fund
The New Zealand government sAId on Monday it would set up a NZ$4.5 billion ($2.83 billion) climate response fund, spending at least NZ$2.9 billion on cutting pollution over the next four years as it targets net zero emissions by 2050.
The plan puts money towards a broad range of activities including making electric vehicles more accessible, reducing food going into landfill, improving public transport and truck emissions and helping industry to decarbonise.
The government is also introducing a ban on some coal boilers and said it will introduce an emissions pricing mechanism for its key agricultural sector from 2025.
The government said the new Climate Emergency Response Fund will initially receive NZ$4.5 billion from Emissions Trading Scheme revenue, with NZ$2.9 billion to be allocated in this week's budget.
The new Emissions Reduction Plan "delivers the greatest opportunity we've had in decades to address climate change but also move to a high wage, low emissions economy that provides greater economic security by creating jobs," New Zealand Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern said in a statement. Ardern missed the release of the plan after contracting COVID.
The most significant emissions reductions for the period ending December 31, 2025 will come in the energy, industrial and transport sectors, government documents said, adding every sector will have to play a role.
The budget will allocate NZ$1.3 billion to the transport sector for projects such as moving people into electric vehicles, decarbonising the freight and public transport sectors and reducing the need for short car trips. A further NZ$380 million is earmarked for agriculture and NZ$692 million for the energy sector.
"We will directly recycle the costs of pollution back into projects that reduce emissions. This means the polluters are paying not the households," Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in a statement.
The government said NZ$865 million of the NZ$4.5 billion had previously been allocated to international climate finance and a decarbonising fund.
The fund will be topped up with future revenue from the Emissions Trading Scheme.