Tagged: carbon emissions

Climate explained: rising carbon emissions (probably) won’t make the Earth uninhabitable - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Apr 07, 2021 •

• carbon emissions,
• Greenhouse effect,
• New Zealand stories

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Even with all humanity’s carbon emissions to date, there’s a lot less carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere … Read More

For a carbon dividend - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Dec 16, 2020 •

• carbon emissions,
• carbon tax,
• Climate Commission,
• emissions trading scheme

My Dom Post column this week makes the case for a carbon dividend. Canada imposes a carbon tax on provinces that haven’t established their own carbon pricing regime, and is set to substantially hike the tax to $170/tonne.  How is it politically feasible? Money collected in each province is sent back as a grant to residents in each province. Carbon … Read More

We (still) need to talk about cars - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Dec 16, 2020 •

• car industry,
• carbon emissions,
• Clean Car Standard,
• Fossil Fuels

To address climate change, we need to phase out the burning of fossil fuels. The largest share of fossil fuels is burnt in cars and trucks. So it seems clear that fossil-fuelled vehicles need to stop being designed, made, imported, and driven. But anyone who has visited a road or seen a car ad recently knows that that isn’t happening, … Read More

Does building and expanding motorways really reduce congestion and emissions? - Unsorted

Guest Author • Oct 07, 2020 •

• car emissions,
• carbon emissions,
• climate change,
• Motorways,
• Traffic

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Q: Does building and expanding motorways really reduce congestion and emissions, or does it increase it? Simon Kingham, … Read More

Tourism and the ETS - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Dec 20, 2019 •

• carbon emissions,
• climate change,
• emissions trading scheme,
• ETS,
• tourism

Eloise Gibson covers the carbon costs of tourism over at Newsroom: But in reality: “value-led tourism growth may actually worsen those pressures that are linked with consumption. Higher-value visitors, by definition, consume more goods and services, all of which have an associated greenhouse gas and solid waste footprint. To the extent that these goods and services are relatively energy … Read More

Regenerative farming can help grow food with less impact - Unsorted

Guest Author • Sep 11, 2019 •

• Agriculture,
• carbon emissions,
• climate change,
• soil,
• soil carbon

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I would like to know to what extent regenerative agriculture practices could play a role in reducing carbon … Read More

Opinion: Economic growth within Environmental limits - The Dismal Science

Michael Reddell • Apr 20, 2018 •

• agriculture,
• capital,
• carbon emissions,
• ecology,
• Environment,
• exports,
• GDP,
• immigration,
• immigration policy,
• Labour Party,
• markets,
• MBIE,
• Ministry for the Environment,
• New Zealand,
• Population growth,
• productivity comission,
• rental housing,
• rents

That was the title of a speech David Parker gave a couple of weeks ago.  Parker is, as you will recall, a man wearing many hats: Minister for the Environment, Associate Minister of Finance, Minister for Trade and Export Growth, and Attorney-General.  Since he was speaking to a seminar organised by the Resource Management Law Association, this speech looked … Read More

The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 15, 2017 •

• carbon emissions,
• decoupling,
• GDP,
• growth,
• limits of growth,
• Sustainability,
• trade,
• wellbeing

By James Ward, University of South Australia; Keri Chiveralls, CQUniversity Australia; Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria; Paul Sutton, University of Denver, and Robert Costanza, Australian National University Our economy and society ultimately depend on natural resources: land, water, material (such as metals) and energy. But some scientists have recognised that … Read More

What are we waiting for? the fantasy of carbon neutral growth of aviation emissions - Hot Topic

Guest Author • Sep 30, 2016 •

• air travel,
• aviation,
• carbon emissions,
• Climate,
• emissions,
• greenhouse gases,
• International Civil Aviation Organisation,
• planes,
• Travel

In this guest post, the ‘stop flying’ Wellington lawyer Tom Bennion writes about the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) proposals for ‘carbon-neutral’ growth of greenhouse gas emissions from the fast-growing aviation industry. New Zealand parents often tell their children not to eat too many sweets. Our primary schools spend a lot of time talking about suitable … Read More

#Friding on my mind - Chthonic Wildlife Ramblings

Brendan Moyle • Apr 29, 2016 •

• auckland cycling,
• carbon emissions,
• climate change,
• cycling,
• Friding

Another Friday and that’s another occasion to participate in the grassroots #Friding campaign.  My goal however, is not to commute to work on the bicycle once a week, but to drive but once a week.  It’s been a good couple of weeks for it.  For one thing, the school holidays has reduced congestion.  That means I don’t have to brake … Read More