We watch, but we don’t see. For decades, New Zealand did just enough to support the economies of the South Pacific, Australia likewise. That support was grudging.
Read more →Climate change
Climate emergency declared – substantiated by large volume of study, action framework coming
Auckland Council’s environment & community committee declared a climate emergency yesterday.
Read more →Tracking ideas Sun16Apr17 – King tides & what to do
King tides in Miami may bring forth solutions
Read more →Tracking ideas Sat15Apr17 – How to beat floods, vertical farm for Shanghai
Look on the back of an envelope for response to flood scare
100ha urban farm to feed Shanghai
Bennett progresses climate change talks with China
Deputy Prime Minister & Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett said on Friday China & New Zealand had experience & expertise to share about responding to climate change.
Read more →Tracking ideas Sun3Apr16 – Red Hook, city travel
Red Hook’s path to an unswampy future – Getting around the best way you can
Read more →Ministry releases aids for ETS review submitters
The Ministry for the Environment has released 2 technical documents to help submitters on the second phase of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) review.
Read more →Government issues 3 papers, and council to debate response on emissions trading
The Ministry for the Environment has released 3 technical documents on removing the emissions trading scheme 1-for-2 transitional measure at various carbon prices, and managing the costs of removing that transitional measure. Auckland Council has produced a draft submission.
Read more →Council to join C40 global climate change network after tight vote
I asked on Monday: “Why would a city that’s proven incapable of explaining its scientific ingenuity want to join an international organisation which demands innovation as an entry card?”
Read more →Why aim high when we’re just fine on low?
Why would a city that’s proven incapable of explaining its scientific ingenuity want to join an international organisation which demands innovation as an entry card?
Read more →Council holds off joining international climate group C40
Grand plans & a place on the world stage, versus knuckling down & looking after core business: That’s how the majority on an Auckland Council committee argued against joining the international C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group last week.
Read more →Mercer to evaluate climate change impacts on investment
Mercer LLC has initiated a study using “several plausible climate scenarios with distinctive economic & market impacts” to model climate change effects on investment out to 2030 & 2050.
Read more →Smith sees strong case for more Southern Ocean climate change research
Conservation Minister Nick Smith said on a visit to the remote sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands on Wednesday there was a strong case to increase climate change research there.
Read more →Unedited full climate change report goes online
The unedited version of the full IPCC fifth assessment report went online last night, 3 days after broad assertions were published via a media statement and a summary for policymakers.
Read more →Low-key climate change report uses scary language, scary evidence yet to come
The opening paragraphs & assertions in the latest findings of the International Panel on Climate Change certainly won’t convince the average sceptic to change their views.
Read more →Plenty of hot air leading into IPCC’s next climate change report
Prepare for large waves of climate information, misinformation & disinformation in the next week, with a crescendo at the weekend when the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) presents the working group 1 summary for policymakers on its fifth assessment report.
Read more →The sceptic – the scientist or the critic?
Published 7 May 2012 Australia’s ABC1 TV channel ran a programme on 26 April, I can change your mind about… climate, which got Melbourne academic Susan Lawler riled even though she didn’t watch it. What got to her was the use of the term “sceptic”. Dr Lawler, head of the environmental management & ecology department […]
Read more →Environment watchdog says Key reneging on emissions policy to suit ACT
Published 17 November 2008 The Environmental Defence Society said yesterday National proposed a radical change of course on climate change policy as a result of its confidence & supply agreement with ACT. A dismayed & disappointed society chairman, Gary Taylor, said: "ACT has done far better than expected out of the agreement. It is […]
Read more →A rational view on climate change
Published 10 April 2008 “I do not claim that everything I have said is absolutely correct (given the uncertainty, that could hardly be the case), but I do claim that I have been careful & systematic in finding out for myself what is involved.” Now that is a statement I like very much. It […]
Read more →Ministers release draft climate change rules
Published 15 February 2008 Climate Change Minister David Parker & Forestry Minister Jim Anderton released a draft of the emissions trading regulations for forestry & liquid fossil fuels on Wednesday. The ministers said they’d released the draft regulations “to provide more certainty for potential participants from the forestry & transport sectors about their obligations […]
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