Tagged: carbon

Lawyers challenge New Zealand’s proposed emissions budgets as inconsistent with the 1.5℃ goal - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Jul 07, 2021 •

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

New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission is facing its first legal hurdle, as a group of 300 climate-concerned lawyers seek judicial review of the processes it used to calculate carbon budgets in its recently released advice to government. Carbon budgets are a cornerstone of New Zealand’s climate change response under the Zero Carbon Act and lie at … Read More

How much does flying contribute to climate change? - Climate: Explained

Shaun Hendy • Nov 27, 2019 •

• aircraft,
• carbon,
• climate change,
• flying,
• Transport

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 How much does our use of air travel contribute to the problem of climate change? And is it more damaging … Read More

Carbon emissions and the Taranaki ban - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Sep 28, 2018 •

• carbon,
• climate change,
• emissions trading scheme,
• MBIE,
• offshore oil and gas

MBIE’s advice on Labour’s ban on Taranaki oil and gas exploration suggested that global emissions could go up. Could that happen? It depends on what you think’s going on in the rest of the world. Suppose that the whole world were under a binding emissions cap under a global cap and trade regime. If New Zealand produced less natural … Read More

A public health perspective on taxing harmful products - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Apr 17, 2018 •

• alcohol,
• british columbia,
• Canada,
• carbon,
• climate change,
• cycleways,
• emissions trading scheme,
• ETS,
• excise taxes,
• GST,
• Health,
• human civilisation,
• planetary health,
• sugary drinks,
• tax,
• tax as tool,
• tobacco

Prof Nick Wilson, Prof Tony Blakely, Dr Amanda Jones, Dr Linda Cobiac, Dr Nhung Nghiem, Dr Anja Mizdrak, Dr Cristina Cleghorn The New Zealand Government has set up a Tax Working Group to consider reforms of the tax system. In this blog we briefly discuss some of the opportunities for tax reform that will potentially improve health and lower … Read More

Why New Zealand should not explore for more natural gas reserves - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 28, 2018 •

• carbon,
• carbon budget,
• carbon neutral,
• climate change,
• co2,
• coal mining,
• deforestation,
• fossil fuels,
• fracking,
• global warming,
• government,
• New Zealand,
• offshore oil drilling,
• planet,
• zero-carbon legislation

Ralph Sims, Massey University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. New Zealand’s new coalition government has committed to introducing zero-carbon legislation that would set the country on a course to be carbon neutral by 2050. At the same time, it is not ruling out new permits for coal … Read More

Limiting warming to 1.5 °C, we can do it – scientists - News

John Kerr • Sep 19, 2017 •

• carbon,
• climate change,
• co2,
• emissions,
• greenhouse gas emissions,
• paris 2015

The global warming limit set at the 2015 Paris Climate Summit is still possible, say scientists, but we need to redouble our efforts if the Earth’s atmosphere is to limbo under the ambitious boundary. In an article published today in Nature Geoscience an international team of climate scientists reports a re-assessment of complex Earth System Models. Crunching the numbers in light of new … Read More

Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jul 19, 2017 •

• carbon,
• climate change,
• debt,
• global warming,
• Greenhouse gas

James Dyke, University of Southampton By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of up to US$535 trillion. This would be the cost of the “negative emissions” technologies required to remove CO₂ from the air in order to avoid dangerous climate change. These are the main findings … Read More

A science-based carbon budget for New Zealand - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 19, 2016 •

• carbon,
• climate change,
• global warming

By Dr George Preddey In my 17th submission to all MPs and other worthies on Budget Day, 20 May 2015 (Budget Day), I suggested alternative proposals for New Zealand’s climate change INDCs (intended nationally determined contributions).  These proposals dispensed with the pseudo-econometrics that characterised much of the discussion document and worked backwards from an essential goal of net carbon … Read More

Painting features as bugs: NZ’s carbon emissions trading scheme - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Apr 18, 2016 •

• carbon,
• climate change,
• economics,
• emissions

I hadn’t quite understood New Zealand’s carbon emissions trading scheme before I moved to Wellington. The thing seemed a little dodgy with a fair bit of reliance on dubious foreign credits. But then the genius of the thing was explained to me. I’ve not looked at it properly myself, but the story is interesting, and seems plausible. It goes something … Read More

Emissions trading at Paris climate talks sets us up to fail - Guest Work

Guest Author • Dec 15, 2015 •

• carbon,
• carbon market,
• carbon pricing,
• climate change,
• COP21,
• deforestation,
• emissions trading,
• Kyoto,
• Paris Agreement,
• paris climate summit

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex The Paris Agreement has mostly been greeted with enthusiasm though it contains at least one obvious flaw. Few seem to have noticed that the main tool mooted for keeping us within the 2℃ global warming target is a massive expansion of carbon trading, including offsetting, which allows the market exchange of credits between … Read More