OIA Request - Integrated Feasibility Analysis: Net Zero Under GDP/Population Growth

Hayden made this Official Information request to Climate Change Commission

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From: Hayden

Kia ora,
Under the Official Information Act 1982, I request:

1. The integrated analysis demonstrating how New Zealand simultaneously achieves:

Net zero emissions (excluding biogenic methane) by 2050
~2% annual GDP growth (Treasury/IMF projections)
Population growth to ~6 million (Stats NZ)

If no integrated analysis exists, confirm this and identify who approved these targets without one.

2. The per capita emissions pathway. Current: ~16 tonnes CO2e. Required by 2050: near zero (non-biogenic). Population increasing 13%. GDP increasing. What's the physical mechanism? If no pathway analysis exists, confirm this.

3. Names and roles of officials who signed off on simultaneous achievement of these targets.

I can recognise when institutional planning contradicts physical constraints. I see the same pattern here—multiple agencies publishing targets that assume independent achievability without integrated feasibility analysis.

I'm not asking for policy justification. I'm asking for physics.
Ngā mihi,
Hayden
Southland, NZ

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