Climate change

23 Jun 17, 8:44am

Guest

Fonterra's Jeremy Hill points out that if the world's dairy producers were as emissions-efficient as New Zealand, the global carbon footprint from dairy would be more than halved
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This week's guest Top 10

9 Jun 17, 10:02am

Guest

17 comments

Motu on Budget winners and losers, getting the 50s out of economics, poverty as a disease, the new Silk Road, smiling as a proxy for diversity, and the problem with ‘and’
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US has 'extraordinary record' on climate change - Tillerson

6 Jun 17, 4:22pm

Alex Tarrant

49 comments

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson defends President Trump's move to pull US from Paris Climate Accord, says decision was in best interests of American people
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Climate change and tax policy

31 May 17, 5:02am

Guest

28 comments

Paul Young says higher carbon prices can make our tax system fairer and more progressive, while tackling the urgent crisis of climate change
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Party Policies - Environment - Climate Change

27 May 17, 9:47am

Julia Wiener

Election 2017 - Party Policies - Environment - Climate Change
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Party Policies - Environment - Carbon Tax

27 May 17, 9:47am

Julia Wiener

Election 2017 - Party Policies - Environment - Carbon Tax
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Party Policies - Environment - Emissions Trading Scheme

27 May 17, 9:47am

Julia Wiener

Election 2017 - Party Policies - Environment - Emissions Trading Scheme
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Time to end pastoral farming's carbon emission subsidy

19 Apr 17, 12:00pm

Brian Fallow

46 comments

Brian Fallow is encouraged by the collegiality on display in Parliament over climate change, but notes the cow in the room remains agriculture
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Climate change report indicates challenges for NZ agriculture

19 Apr 17, 8:44am

Allan Barber

1 comment

Allan Barber reviews a cross-party review of how to achieve climate targets, one that will entail a difficult transition for rural economies
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The generational debate just got real

26 Mar 17, 6:02am

Alex Tarrant

53 comments

Warnings on New Zealand's environmental performance this week mean the intergenerational debate just got real in an election year, Alex Tarrant says
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A 'presentist' intergenerational bias

24 Mar 17, 9:31am

Alex Tarrant

10 comments

Vic Uni Professor Jonathan Boston rallies against intergenerational equity bias that favours short-term political thinking; Outlines NZ successes, failures and why income inequality desperately needs to be tackled
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NZ's growth model showing 'environmental limits'

21 Mar 17, 9:19am

Jenée Tibshraeny

37 comments

Government refuses to consider OECD's recommendation to include agriculture in the Emissions Trading Scheme despite agriculture making up half of NZ's emissions; OECD suggests Government eases back funding for irrigation
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The Opportunities Party details its climate change policy

9 Mar 17, 5:25pm

Gareth Vaughan

9 comments

Gareth Morgan's Opportunities Party wants to wean NZ off fossil fuels, end 'bias' towards roads, and see traffic congestion charges introduced
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Australia's new horizon: Climate change challenges and prudential risk

20 Feb 17, 7:32pm

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2 comments

Climate change could threaten the stability of the entire financial system, an Aussie banking regulator warns, as it prepares to apply climate change "stress tests" to the nation's financial institutions
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This week's Top 10

27 Jan 17, 10:00am

Gareth Vaughan

144 comments

Gareth Vaughan on Trump rallying scientists, Trump & fascism, the most effective anti-left president, economic warfare, books revived by Trumpism, Dutch, Arab takes on Trump & more
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Kaikoura quake the world's 7th most costly insured event in 2016

24 Jan 17, 4:16pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

1 comment

Insurers expected to cover 60% of Kaikoura quake losses; climate change expected to keep escalating risk of natural disasters
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Friday's guest Top 10

2 Dec 16, 10:00am

Ryan Greenaway-...

133 comments

Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy on the top 10 things to know about Donald Trump's impending Presidency
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'When the going gets tough, change the rules'

5 Nov 16, 9:10am

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2 comments

The Morgan Foundation accuses the Government of choosing a process that will violate both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement for how we meet our climate change commitments
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Is forestry the answer?

2 Nov 16, 9:12am

Keith Woodford

31 comments

Given New Zealand's Paris climate commitments, Keith Woodford sees no alternative to planting 80,000 ha of extra trees per year. And that won't happen without a change in Government policy
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Making Paris effective

24 Oct 16, 3:25pm

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Peter Neilson wants the US with China and the EU, to encourage most countries to charge for carbon emissions, and adopt border carbon charge adjustments, so action on climate change is fair, effective and inclusive
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