New Zealand

Overall rating: Highly insufficient

Policies & actions: Highly insufficient; < 4°C World

Domestic target: Insufficient; < 3°C World

Fair share target: Critically insufficient; 4°C+ World

Climate finance: Highly insufficient

Net zero target: year
2050; Comprehensiveness rated as
Poor

Land use & forestry: historically considered a
Sink

List of references

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