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to take an overseas trip, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has not yet resumed international travel).

Shaw’s attendance will reboot high-level diplomatic relations. And face-to-face dealmaking is essential on issues that will significantly impact New Zealand’s economy and trade relations.

His presence is even more important given a third of Pacific Island nations, the countries most affected by the climate crisis, can’t make the summit because of Covid travel restrictions.

National’s soft denialism and lack of urgency is one thing. But Shaw has a bigger problem: his party’s political agenda. From its inception the Green Party has been inextricably entwined with left-wing politics and a broader agenda of social justice.

Proposing the up-ending of capitalism, or the immediate razing of the carbon economy, is not going to persuade a Hilux-driving, Nationalvoting farmer to save the planet, any more than it will persuade China or India to slash emissions.

Increasingly, the Green movement is coming to represent protesters brandishing eco-guilt banners, and snowflake vs boomer factionalism.

In Germany, the Greens were polling up to 30 per cent earlier this year. But the party ended up attracting barely 15 per cent, having failed to shake its image as the Verbotspartei (the party of bans).

Shaw will return from Glasgow with new commitments to make real reductions in emissions.

But policies that ignore the reality of human nature will ultimately fail. People are not going to support moves that see them worse off.

Asking people to pay more taxes and higher costs to combat global warming while also asking them to accept living standards stagnating or falling is unrealistic.

New Zealanders struggling with everyday costs of living don’t want to feel guilty about driving, flying, eating meat, buying consumer goods, moving to bigger houses or other ordinary human activities that increase greenhouse-gas

COP26 is a critical moment, one of humanity’s last chances to slow global warming.

emissions.

Climate plans that cost individuals more, in terms of fuel and flights, are easy targets for National and ACT. Less than two years ago, there appeared to be a cross-party consensus on climate change. That’s now all but vanished.

Tackling the climate crisis is the toughest, most intractable political issue we have ever faced. Parties are going to argue over what forms of climate action are best.

But if the Greens want to remove the deadlock, they need to recognise that conservative principles can play a role in efforts to mitigate climate change, too. Failing to do so only makes the polarisation of the issue worse: climate change is not a right or left wing issue. It’s everyone’s problem.

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