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Brian Fallow: Govt in bind over emissions target

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A big decision the Government has to make this year is the greenhouse gas emissions target for the 2013 to 2020 period.We are the only developed country not to have tabled an unconditional single number target as part of the international...

Govt sets out carbon emission targets

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The Government has announced its target for carbon emission reductions by 2020.Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said New Zealand has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.It is...

Soft emissions target might rise

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The Government has adopted a soft unilateral target for reducing carbon emissions by 2020, but Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said a future Government might lift it, should progress towards an international agreement post-2020...

Toby Manhire: Bumbling on climate will shame our grandkids

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When the historians of the future come to assess the early part of the 21st century and the way a world beset by pathological narrow-mindedness made an awkward face and did not do very much at all about climate change, New Zealand...

Simon Terry: Pressure mounting on NZ to deliver real emission reduction

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After many years focused on creative accounting, New Zealand is facing pressure to deliver emission reduction results.Things are different partly because the two biggest carbon polluters, the US and China, last week pledged to do...

Tim Naish: If emission talks focus only on short-term costs, we will pay dearly

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Climate change is a global problem, and the world's nations have agreed global warming must be limited to less than 2C to avoid its most serious consequences. To achieve this target, global emissions of carbon dioxide need to be reduced...

New Zealand's carbon credits scheme a farce, says Morgan Foundation report

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New Zealand is being accused of cheating to fulfil its international climate change obligations.A new report by the Morgan Foundation, released today, says foreign carbon credits which New Zealand bought to reach its climate targets...

Peter Whitmore: Emissions trading scheme needs meaningful overhaul

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Now we have signed the Paris Agreement, our Government wants to continue using the emissions trading scheme as our primary tool to meet our commitment to reduce emissions. But if we continue down this route there are still some major...

Climate change needs to be treated with more urgency, says scientist

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A leading climate scientist has welcomed a new 20-year Government "roadmap" that singles out climate change as an environmental research priority for New Zealand.But Dr James Renwick, of Victoria University of Wellington, argues...

National's economic strategy not to blame for environmental decline in NZ - English

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Prime Minister Bill English says he is concerned about the findings in a new OECD report that highlights environmental degradation in New Zealand, but he disagrees that his Government's economic strategy is partly to blame. The...

Your flight could be powered by rubbish from Nevada

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Cathay Pacific broke new ground when it liked a fuel-from-garbage firm so much that it bought into the company.Its biofuel manager, Jeff Ovens, says he was presented with a blank canvas in 2009 when the Hong Kong-based airline began...

Carbon report: Plant native trees, save cash

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The case to plant more native forests to off-set emissions has been again pushed in another major research report - and this time, researchers say businesses could benefit.Wellington-based Motu Economic and Public Policy Research's...

Isaac Davison: Trump ditches Paris - what it means for NZ

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Donald Trump's withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement will have little tangible effect on New Zealand, at least in the short term.It will not prompt the Government to reconsider its role in the accord. Climate...

Brian Fallow: Never mind Trump, NZ climate effort needs work

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New Zealand remains committed to the Paris agreement on climate change, Prime Minister Bill English assures us - notwithstanding President Donald Trump's "disappointing" decision to pull out of it.That means the Government has some...

Up to 100 Fonterra farms to begin recording their climate pollution

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Dairy giant Fonterra has committed to measuring the climate pollution on 100 of its suppliers' farms as part of a plan to cut the dairy industry's emissions.Lobby group DairyNZ released the climate change plan at Fieldays in Hamilton...

Celebrities, scientists join new nationwide push for action on climate change

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Celebrities, scientists, doctors and businesspeople and hundreds of others have today come together to launch a fresh nationwide push for action on climate change.The new movement, Our Climate Declaration , calls on the Government...

ETS proposals 'last nail in coffin' - expert

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The Government will introduce the auctioning of carbon units, limit use of international units and roll in a new price ceiling under just-proposed changes to New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme.But a forestry expert has criticised...

Karen Silk: UK-style climate-change regime good for NZ

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By Karen Silk Business has a key role to play in reducing climate change.In coming years business-driven consumer technologies like electric vehicles, solar, battery storage and artificial intelligence software have the potential...

East Coast land study builds case for lucrative native forest future

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The North Island's picturesque East Coast is set to become a testing ground for a nationwide model that could potentially establish hundreds of thousands of hectares of new native forest, combat climate change and improve our waterways.A...

Election Policy Series: Passions high over natural assets

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If the prelude to Election 2017 was lacking anything, it wasn't environmental conflict.Green groups hailing a Supreme Court decision that brought a potentially fatal setback for Hawkes Bay's Ruataniwha Dam project were soon after...
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