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Six principles for economic recovery

Our advice to the Government on how to put a climate lens on Aotearoa's economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

7 April 2020


About this publication

In 2020, the Commission wrote to Minister for Climate Change James Shaw to offer advice, outlining six principles for economic recovery to inform the Government's plans for economic recovery following the coronavirus pandemic:

  1. Consider how stimulus investments can deliver long-term climate benefits
  2. Bring forward transformational climate change investments that need to happen
    anyway
  3. Prepare our workforce for the jobs of tomorrow
  4. Work in partnership
  5. Maintain incentives to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change
  6. Change how we measure the success of economic recovery