Climate change mitigation climate change are more damaging in poor nations, where infrastructures are weak and few social services exist. The Commitment to Development Index is one attempt to analyze rich country policies taken to reduce their disproportionate use of the global commons. Countries do well if their greenhouse gas emissions are falling, if their gas taxes are high, if they do not subsidize the fishing industry, if they have a low fossil fuel rate per capita, and if they control imports of illegally cut tropical timber. The main current international agreement on combating climate change is the Kyoto Protocol. On the 11th
Climate change in New Zealand creating an independent climate change commission to address carbon monitoring and budgeting, and also to provide comment and ramifications when set targets or goals weren't met. Agriculture was also a point of focus with Labour committing to including agriculture into the emissions trading scheme to ensure that the agricultural sector operates with improved environmental practise. The Labour party also pledged to create a sustainable low carbon economy, while also achieving being a leading nation in addressing climate change, successfully achieving its commitments as made under the 2015 Paris agreement. The National Party in the 2017 election made a commitment to