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Featured image: Does your driving speed make any difference to your car’s emissions?

Does your driving speed make any difference to your car’s emissions? - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Jun 11, 2020 •

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 Does reducing speed reduce emissions from the average car? Ralph Sims, Massey University Every car has an optimal … Read More

Featured image: New Zealand poised to introduce clean car standards and incentives to cut emissions

New Zealand poised to introduce clean car standards and incentives to cut emissions - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Aug 01, 2019 •

The New Zealand government has proposed new fuel standards to cut greenhouse emissions, along with consumer rebates for cleaner cars – paid for by fees on high-polluting cars. The long-awaited proposed changes would bring New Zealand in line with most other developed countries; apart from New Zealand, Russia and Australia are the last remaining OECD nations without … Read More

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Counting carbon – knowledge is power - Infrequently Asked Questions

Lynley Hargreaves • Jun 21, 2016 •

One of the striking things for University of Waikato law Professor Barry Barton, while working on the Royal Society of New Zealand report Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy for New Zealand, was how often his scientific colleagues had to tell him they didn’t have necessary data on New Zealand’s carbon emissions options. Without that information, we don’t know … Read More