News from Climate Liberation Aotearoa
At the TRENZ tourism Conference in Wellington today, supporters of Climate Liberation Aotearoa will hold banners, hand out leaflets and speak through megaphones to protest against luxury emissions, greenwashing, and the free ride that the tourism industry’s international emissions get.
“TRENZ’s claims about sustainability are just greenwashing unless they start calling for international shipping and aviation emissions to be included in our government’s emission targets” said Frank Preddey, Climate Liberation Aotearoa spokesperson.
“The industry has so far been silent on this. There’s still time for them to step up. We challenge industry leaders to submit to the Climate Change Commission asking for effective regulation, rather than continuing the loopholes. Until the industry takes responsibility for cleaning up the industry, they will face increasing disruption from the people of Aotearoa who want better than greenwashing…