{"id":616114,"date":"2026-09-30T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616114\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:58:09","slug":"dutch-environmental-group-accuses-new-zealand-of-breaching-climate-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616114\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch environmental group accuses New Zealand of breaching climate agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An expert says a challenge to New Zealand&#8217;s environmental policy is high stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch environmental group Both ENDS has filed a complaint with the European Commission, accusing New Zealand of breaching our environmental obligations in the EU Free Trade Agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s over things like watering down methane reduction targets, and reversing the ban on oil and gas exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Canterbury University politics professor, Bronwyn Hayward, says it&#8217;s likely to get a lot of attention on the world stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether we win or lose, our reputation is taking a real hit.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An expert says a challenge to New Zealand&#8217;s environmental policy is high stakes. Dutch environmental group Both ENDS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[303568,78703,273,111,43,139,69,135],"class_list":["post-616114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bothends","tag-climatechange","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}