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NZ wins COP28 'fossil' award for revoking offshore oil exploration ban (newsroom.co.nz)
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[–] liv 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just to clarify, they (petrostate) did not give NZ the fossil award. And I don't see why they would be hostile. NZ opening up oil and gas exploration gives the big oil companies (who are the petrostate's allies) a lot more "pie" than it gives New Zealand.

New Zealand made a brief appearance in yesterday’s fossil fuel debate. It won the first Fossil of the Day award of this COP for the National-led government’s campaign promise to revoke the previous government’s ban on offshore oil exploration beyond Taranaki’s coastal waters.

The government was making “a U-turn on the way to a liveable future,” said the Climate Action Network, which made the award. CAN involves some 1,100 NGOs in more than 120 countries.