New Zealand Coalition Partner Floats Quitting Paris Agreement

New Zealand should consider withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate, according to ACT Party leader David Seymour, who is set to become deputy prime minister later this year.

“There is a wider question of whether the government of New Zealand should be committed to the Paris Accord when half of the world appears to be pulling out of it anyway,” Seymour told NZME’s The Country radio show Monday in Wellington. “That’s a discussion for another time and perhaps another election,” he added.