Australia-New Zealand cooperation on climate change – address by Hon Chris Bowen and Hon James Shaw
Event description
Join us to hear from Hon Chris Bowen MP, Australia’s Minister of Climate Change and Energy, and Hon James Shaw MP, New Zealand’s Minister for Climate Change – facilitated by Professor David Frame
Chris Bowen entered Parliament in 2004 and has held a wide range of portfolios including serving as Treasurer, Minister for Human Services, Minister for Immigration, Minister for Financial Services, Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Competition Policy, Minister for Small Business and Minister for Tertiary Education. Chris has been responsible for a range of significant policy reform programs in these portfolios. He served as Interim Leader of the Labor Party and Acting Leader of the Opposition following the 2013 Federal election and served as Shadow Treasurer. He is now the Minister for Climate Change and Energy.
New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister, James Shaw firmly believes the transition to a zero-emission future is the single greatest opportunity in at least a generation to build more sustainable, more productive and more inclusive world.
James was elected to Parliament in 2014 and became Green Party Co-leader in 2015. In 2017 he led the Green Party into its first ever term in Government, during which he guided the Zero Carbon Act through Parliament with unanimous support.
Now in his second term in Government, James has overseen the setting of Aotearoa New Zealand’s first three emissions budgets, and spearheaded the Emissions Reduction Plan, drawing together a whole-of-government approach to cut emissions across every sector of the economy.
More recently, he has released the country’s first ever National Adaptation Plan to help communities prepare and protect lives, livelihoods, homes, businesses and infrastructure from the increasingly frequent and severe storms, floods and droughts caused by the climate crisis
