7/25/2023 0 Comments Real seamonkeyThe commission also proposes giving incentives for pest control, to defend the carbon already stored in established forests from being ravaged by deer and goats. It could be a One Billion Trees-style grant scheme, only focussed purely on indigenous trees, not pine and indgenous, as the current scheme is. As well as stopping the chop, the draft advice tells the Government to create incentives to create new, permanent native forests, by 31 December 2022. More timber for construction, to replace steel and concreteĭespite all the talk of planting, people felling native forest is still a sizable piece of New Zealand’s emissions. We’d need to stop cutting down existing native forests from 2025.Pine trees would continue to grow until 2030 but then taper off.Native planting would stay high until 2050.12,000 hectares of new native forest from 2021, rising to 16,000 hectares annually by 2025 and 25,000 a year by 2030.Since electricity is just one form of energy, the commission recommends thinking of it together with energy used in manufacturing, and aiming to green the overall mix. By 2035, we’ll need 20 per cent more electricity than we did in 2018, to power cars and factories. Even as demand grows, the grid will get greener: up to 95 per cent of electricity will be renewable in the 2030s. The sooner there’s an exit date, the better for planning a low-carbon future, suggested the commission. The drawn-out exit of our largest power consumer, the Tiwai aluminium smelter, is causing uncertainty for rapid solar and wind expansion, it said.
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