Tagged: Infometrics

It’s deja vu all over again: NZ consultation on climate target set up to be a farce - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • May 26, 2015 •

• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• emissions,
• Infometrics,
• John Key,
• Landcare Research,
• targets,
• Tim Groser

At the end of last week, with the deadline1 for submissions on a post-2020 target for New Zealand emissions rapidly approaching, the Ministry for the Environment released a second set of economic cost estimates for various emissions targets. These cost estimates are substantially lower, the Ministry admits, than the costs in the consultation document issued […] … Read More

Self-interested, myopic hot-air - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Sep 26, 2009 •

• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• ETS,
• farming,
• Infometrics

New Zealand’s farming leadership have not distinguished themselves in the debate about climate policy. Federated Farmers president Don Nicholson has called for NZ to set no target for emissions reductions and for agriculture to be excluded from the emissions trading scheme, and former vice-president Frank Brenmuhl is still ruminating on the need for more debate [...] … Read More