Tagged: Climate Commission

Blessed are they that have not seen the model, and yet have believed - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Mar 02, 2021 •

• climate change,
• Climate Commission,
• emissions trading scheme,
• government policy,
• New Zealand economy

The Climate Change Commission’s recommendations span the breadth of the economy. They are required to come up with sector-by-sector climate budgets consistent with getting New Zealand with net zero emissions under the Zero Carbon Act. The sector-by-sector budgets rest on underlying models. The models build predictions about what will happen as ETS prices rise, and what will happen when some … Read More

For a bigger carbon dividend - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Mar 01, 2021 •

• carbon price,
• climate change,
• Climate Commission,
• emissions trading scheme

New Zealand has an excellent Emissions Trading Scheme covering everything except agriculture – a non-trivial exclusion, but we can come back to that later. The ETS has a cap. Net emissions from the covered sector cannot exceed the cap. So any other regulations that affect sectors covered by the cap only shift things around within the cap and affect the … Read More

Climate Change Commission calls on New Zealand government to take ‘immediate and decisive action’ to cut emissions - The Changing Climate

Guest Author • Feb 01, 2021 •

• climate change,
• Climate Commission,
• emissions budgets,
• Nationally Determined Contribution,
• Paris Agreement,
• zero carbon act

James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission today released its long-anticipated advice to the government on how to reshape the economy to meet the country’s domestic and international climate change obligations. The document sets out three emissions budgets, covering 15 years to 2035 in five-yearly plans. It also provides advice … 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

Climate emergency or not, New Zealand needs to start doing its fair share of climate action - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Dec 02, 2020 •

• climate change emergency,
• Climate Commission,
• emissions trading scheme,
• nationally determined contributions,
• Paris Agreement,
• zero carbon act

Following this week’s climate emergency declaration, New Zealand will have to face up to the fact it has one of the worst climate records of industrialised nations. Of 43 industrialised countries — known as Annex 1 countries — 31 are experiencing a drop in emissions. But 12 have seen net emissions increase between 1990 and 2018, and New … Read More

Climate Commission is cleared for takeoff: James Renwick talks ice, snow, and climate action - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Feb 10, 2020 •

• carbon budget,
• climate change,
• Climate Commission,
• Larsen B,
• Paris Agreement,
• school strikes

James Renwick is Professor of Physical Geography at Victoria University of Wellington. He studied at Canterbury and the University of Washington and has worked on diverse aspects of climate science, including global atmospheric circulation and Antarctic sea ice. In December 2019 he was appointed to the New Zealand Climate Change Commission, which will recommend carbon budgets and mitigation strategies to … Read More

From science to ethics to action - Hot Topic

Bryan Walker • May 27, 2011 •

• Australia,
• Climate Commission,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• Hansen,
• Nick Smith,
• nz

I’ve been reading the admirably lucid report of the Australian Climate Commission which Gareth highlighted recently, and reflecting on its restrained exposition of the current state of the science. One couldn’t ask for a clearer or more accessible statement within its 70 page range. At the same time I’ve started reading a book by philosopher [...] … Read More

The Climate Show #13: James Hansen and the critical decade - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • May 24, 2011 •

• Australia,
• Climate business,
• Climate Commission,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• Hansen,
• nz,
• Solar,
• solar thermal,
• The Climate Show

Special guest on this week’s show is Dr James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies and perhaps the best-known climate scientist in the world — the man who put the 350 in 350.org and a forceful advocate for leaving coal in the ground. We caught up with him during his recent NZ [...] … Read More

The Critical Decade: time is tight - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • May 23, 2011 •

• Australia,
• Climate business,
• Climate Commission,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• Hansen

Australia’s Climate Commission (established by government, but “not subject to government direction“) today released an overview of the current climate state of play — The Critical Decade: Climate science, risks and responses (key points, full report). It’s important and timely — especially in the Australian political context, but it also has lessons for most of [...] … Read More