TLDR: The Government will unveil its Emissions Reduction Plan to achieve its climate targets for the next 30 years at midday today after a Beehive ‘lockup’ that I’ll be in. Public transport subsidies, climate mitigation infrastructure and the potential for ‘demand management’ tools such as congestion and pollution charges will be the focus.
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Elsewhere in the news overnight and this morning:
PM Jacinda Ardern is unwell enough with Covid that she won’t be able to chair this afternoon’s Cabinet meeting remotely;
Finland and Sweden took historic steps overnight to join NATO, which would end 200 years of Swedish neutrality and double the length of NATO’s borders with Russia; and,
Australia’s PM Scott Morrison launched a last-minute election policy to allow first home buyers to break open their pension funds to get up to A$50,000 for deposits.
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