Tag: Standings

  • New Zealand beat West Indies in second Test to sweep series 2-0

    New Zealand maintained their second spot in the Test rankings Monday after thrashing West Indies by an innings and 12 runs to wrap up an emphatic series win.
    The win lifted the Black Caps to 116 points, just behind Australia (116) on decimal points, and also extended their unbeaten home run to 15 Tests.
    New Zealand also stayed in the hunt for the inaugural World Test Championship final as they overtook England to move into third in the standings behind Australia and India, who start a four-Test series this week.

    “It does sound pretty cool,” said Tom Latham, New Zealand’s stand-in captain while Kane Williamson is on paternity leave.
    “We have been playing some good cricket as of late in our conditions, and away for that matter, and it’s a pretty cool thing.”
    After Williamson pulled out on the eve of the second Test, Latham said the team stepped up with Henry Nicholls overcoming a form slump to score 174 and lay the foundations of the victory.

  • New Zealand Far From Achieving Climate Funding Goals For Developed Nations: OXFAM Report

    New Zealand has been lagging behind in its funding goals aimed at enabling the climate action for its neighbours in the Pacific and has shunned its responsibilities per the international climate law, a new OXFAM report Standing With The Frontlines revealed.

    According to OXFAM, New Zealand failed to meet its financial target of $100 billion for the developing and the climate-vulnerable countries, subsequently, unable to fulfil terms of the Paris Agreement. “New Zealand should double its climate finance to get closer to doing its fair share towards the $100 billion goals,” experts said, adding that the country must mobilise its climate funds per year from developed to the developing world by the year 2025. 

    New Zealand must increase the public funding to $67 billion to meet its ‘climate-specific’ finance levels that only averaged to NZ $51 million per year in 2017-2018, although was targeted for NZ $75 million by 2022, the report suggests. The finance is allocated by the country via New Zealand Aid Programme that sends half of the total aid to towards climatic goals of the Pacific Small Island Developing States to enable climate adaptation and mitigation efforts.

    “Quantity of New Zealand’s climate finance has stagnated in recent years, putting it far behind comparative countries in per capita terms, at just $7 per capita,” OXFAM noted. The country only ranked 21st out of 23 highly developed countries in total finance provided between 2017 and 2018.