Govt new targets requires emissions to fall 1%

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The Government has announced a new climate target for 2035, surprising even some of its strongest critics with how small the promised emissions reductions are. All countries including New Zealand agreed to aim for the strongest possible ambition to avert worsening heat and increasingly severe weather disasters. But, the Government's new target requires emissions to fall just one percentage point from 2030 to 2035. Climate Change Correspondent Eloise Gibson reports.