I write about New Zealand and climate politics — not who's winning, but why. Posts here draw on hard data and academic research to examine public opinion, electoral behaviour, and the politics of climate change.
Economy, cost of living, and health dominated voter concerns in 2023. But while National owned the economy, no party owned cost of living — a distinction that could shape the 2026 election.
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Support for climate action among right-leaning New Zealanders dropped from 52% to 29% between 2020 and 2023. Using NZES data, I look at how the left-right divide on climate is widening — in both policy support and belief in the science itself.
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New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi debate is increasingly partisan — left and right voters are now 34 points apart. I look at what the data shows and what it means for 2026.
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Most people accept climate change is real and worry about it — so why hasn't the world done more to combat climate change? The answer lies not in denial, but in how rarely climate change makes it to the top of voters' priority lists — a pattern visible across New Zealand and countries around the world.
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