Tagged: carbon emissions

The outlook for coral reefs remains grim unless we cut emissions fast — new research - The Changing Climate

Guest Author • May 11, 2021 •

• carbon emissions,
• climate change,
• coral reefs,
• New Zealand stories

Christopher Cornwall, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Verena Schoepf, University of Amsterdam   The twin stress factors of ocean warming and acidification increasingly threaten coral reefs worldwide, but relatively little is known about how various climate scenarios will affect coral reef growth rates. Our research, published today, paints a grim picture. We estimate that even … Read More

Why did New Zealand’s CO2 emissions blow out so spectacularly in 2019? - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Apr 18, 2021 •

• carbon emissions,
• climate change,
• co2,
• New Zealand stories

Every year in April, the trees start changing colour, the clocks go back an hour, and the national greenhouse gas figures are released and promptly forgotten. They take fifteen months to prepare, so by the time they come out it’s very easy for commentators to point out that they are out of date. Even now that the national media are … Read More

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