Economy / Politics

Budget 2020. Boost to nature jobs but is it transformative?

09:33 am on 15 May 2020

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More than 1 billion dollars of Budget 2020 has been flagged for 11,000 nature based jobs, but already there are questions about whether the investment is transformative enough.

Many environmentalists say it's a missed opportunity when it comes to decarbonisation and low emission housing, with very little detail on specific climate investment.

Russel Norman the executive director of Greenpeace NZ and a former co-leader of the NZ Green Party and The Environmental Defence Society's chief executive Gary Taylor discuss with Kathryn Ryan.

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