This request and release is about risk assessment report.
Response date
28 October 2020
Type
Departmental
This request and release is about risk assessment report.
Response date
28 October 2020
Type
Departmental
Details of the request
1. How can a scenario that is based on:
• No mitigation measures being taken by any country
• No technical developments applied to reducing emissions
• Coal use to increase 650%
• Unrealistic population increases.
be considered seriously for a document that is of such importance to New Zealand and our future?
2. What research was carried out by the panel or the Ministry on the current status of RCP8.5 ?
3. What was the panel seeking to achieve by using such an implausible and discredited scenario?