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Dear M Grainger,

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request dated 4 June 2018 requesting:

"On Q&A Sunday 3 June you stated, "If somebody wanted to have an immediate impact, [on climate change] they could eat one less meat meal per week." Can you please enumerate with facts. figures and hard data what impact on climate change will happen if one person eats one less meat meal per week? If this is not possible, please apologise to the New Zealand public for this misleading statement."

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 2 July 2018, being 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

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Dave Butler-Peck | Private Secretary
Office of Hon James Shaw | Green Party Co-leader | Minister for Climate Change | Minister of Statistics | Associate Minister of Finance
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From: M Grainger [mailto:[FOI #7988 email]]
Sent: Monday, 4 June 2018 11:01 AM
To: J Shaw (MIN) <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Please enumerate the "immediate impact"

Dear James Shaw,

On Q&A Sunday 3 June you stated, "If somebody wanted to have an immediate impact, [on climate change] they could eat one less meat meal per week."

Can you please enumerate with facts. figures and hard data what impact on climate change will happen if one person eats one less meat meal per week?

If this is not possible, please apologise to the New Zealand public for this misleading statement.

Yours faithfully,

M Grainger

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Dear M Grainger

 

Please find attached Hon James Shaw’s response to your OIA of 4 June.

 

Regards

Deb Moran

 

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