Tagged: paula bennett

Moro bars and triple dips: Geoff Simmons fact checks Paula Bennett’s clean unit claim - Hot Topic

Simon Johnson • Sep 02, 2016 •

• climate change,
• emissions trading scheme,
• Environment and Ecology,
• global warming,
• paula bennett

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

New minister for Climate Change Paula Bennett confirms NZ uses ‘Hot Air’ creative accounting to meet emissions targets - Hot Topic

Mr February • Dec 22, 2015 •

• climate change,
• coal,
• COP21,
• Environment and Ecology,
• fossil fuel emissions,
• New Zealand,
• Paris Agreement,
• paris climate summit,
• paula bennett

New Zealand’s new Minister for Climate Change, Paula Bennett, has just confirmed New Zealand will be “carrying forward” 127 million “Hot Air” emissions units (or offsets) under Kyoto Protocol rules. These units mostly do not represent a tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent reduced somewhere else and yet the Government intends to use them to allow New Zealand’s greenhouse … Read More