Why An Ambitious Auckland Climate Plan Was Left At The AltarBy Ross InglisIf you’ve ever wondered why a yawning chasm lies between New Zealand’s climate ambitions and what we actually do about them, here’s a sobering example that helps explain it. It’s a policy or, if you like, a strategy originally intended to put a big dent in the city’s transport emissions. The TERP was born in August 2022, the child of Auckland Councils of a rather more progressive blush than our current one. It arrived at a time when the climate crisis wasn’t being quietly ignored: The city had declared a climate emergency in 2019 and later the following year followed up with Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri, Auckland's Climate Plan. The new climate plan was ambitious - it aimed to cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 against a 2016 baseline.