Re the letter you published by Arthur Moore [Times, March 22] which stated that New Zealand was contributing $14 billion to the United Nations.
This simply isn’t true. A quick Google search will show that our contributions are $53 million per year. Arthur’s figure is 264 times higher than the real one.
I know you can’t fact check everything, but the $14b figure is close to our total spend on education or health and should have been obviously wildly implausible.
Alan Johnstone, Mellons Bay
Editor’s note: Quite right. It actually refers to the cost to the New Zealand economy to meet Paris Agreement targets at $1.4 billion every year for a decade.
