Public Health Expert • Apr 17, 2018 •
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
Brendan Moyle • Sep 01, 2017 •
Climate change is one of the NZ election issues of this year. With that in mind, the Science Media Centre asked the parties the following question: How will your party meet the goals of the Paris Agreement? How will agriculture be accounted for in climate change adaptation and mitigation? What are your plans for the Emissions Trading Scheme? Introduction … Read More
Michael Reddell • May 24, 2017 •
I’ve never had that much interest in climate change. Perhaps it comes from living in Wellington. If average local temperatures were a couple of degrees warmer here most people would be quite happy. And as successive earthquakes seem to have the South Island pushing under the North Island, raising the land levels around here – you can … Read More
Simon Johnson • Sep 02, 2016 •
The Morgan Foundation’s Geoff Simmons has done a whiteboard Friday video on Minister for Climate Change Issues Paula Bennett’s claim that the surplus emission units are not tainted by the 97 million fake Russian and Ukrainian emission reduction units that the Climate Cheats report of April 2016 showed had been handed to the Government under the … Read More
Mr February • Mar 01, 2016 •
Simon Johnson looks at ‘fix the ETS’ metaphors and argues that trying to incrementally ‘save’ or ‘fix’ the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme will ensure it remains ineffective in reducing domestic emissions for decades. Politically, its just flogging the dead horse. We don’t have time for a unending institutionalised cultural conflict over ‘fixing the NZETS’ like the one we have had … Read More
Guest Author • Oct 05, 2009 •
A paper by Dr George Preddey, Physicist, futurist, tertiary teacher, disaster manager, education policy analyst, international consultant (retired), environmental activist and marathoner Global Economic Crisis and Copenhagen – missed chances for averting a human catastrophe? ’If at first an idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.’ ’We shall require a substantially new way … Read More