Tagged: Zero Carbon Bill

New Zealand will make big banks, insurers and firms disclose their climate risk. It’s time other countries did too - Guest Work

Guest Author • Sep 18, 2020 •

• climate change,
• climate risk,
• finance,
• Zero Carbon Bill

Ivan Diaz-Rainey, University of Otago This week’s announcement of mandatory disclosures of climate-related risks for companies and financial institutions is arguably the New Zealand government’s most significant climate policy — even more so than the Zero Carbon Act itself. The new policy will come into effect in 2023. It requires all banks, asset managers and insurance companies with … Read More

Political parties and GMOs: we all need to move on - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Nov 14, 2019 •

• biosynthesis,
• climate change,
• gene editing,
• genetically modified organisms,
• gmo,
• GMOs,
• Green Party,
• New Zealand,
• Vaccine,
• Zero Carbon Bill

Recently more than 150 post-graduate students and young scientists presented an open letter to the Green Party via The Spinoff, encouraging them to reconsider their position on genetic modification. Their target is tackling climate change issues.[1] Can any party continue to be dismissive about genetic modification (GM) contributing to better agriculture? We all want safe food, and … Read More

Zero Carbon: It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Nov 12, 2019 •

• climate change,
• greenhouse gas emissions,
• Zero Carbon Bill

Two years into New Zealand’s Labour-led government, the long-delayed Zero Carbon Bill became law on 7 November. Passed essentially unanimously, the lengthy public debates and political manoeuvring faded away until the final passage was even anticlimactic: Flipping through the @nzstuff @DomPost I was starting to wonder if I’d dreamt the whole #zerocarbonbill thing. Page 15?? … Read More

A New Zealand household emissions calculator - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • Jul 05, 2019 •

• cliamte change,
• greenhouse gas emissions,
• household,
• Zero Carbon Bill

The New Zealand company Enviro-Mark Solutions, a spinoff from the Crown Research Institute Landcare, is a global pioneer is greenhouse certification. Founded in 2001, they now have hundreds of clients in seventeen countries. Their most popular certification, CEMARS (Certified Emissions Measurement And Reduction Scheme) audits companies’ emissions and their emissions reduction plans – typically reductions of at least a … Read More

NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane - Planetary Ecology

Robert McLachlan • May 09, 2019 •

• agricultural emissions,
• climate change,
• greenhouse gas emissions,
• Paris Agreement,
• Zero Carbon Bill

New Zealand’s long-awaited zero carbon bill will create sweeping changes to the management of emissions, setting a global benchmark with ambitious reduction targets for all major greenhouse gases. The bill includes two separate targets – one for the long-lived greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, and another target specifically for biogenic methane, produced by livestock and landfill waste. Read More

New Zealand’s zero carbon bill: much ado about methane - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jul 14, 2018 •

• agricultural greenhouse gases,
• climate change,
• methane,
• Zero Carbon Bill

Robert McLachlan, Massey University New Zealand could become the first country in the world to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Leading up to the 2017 election, the now Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern famously described climate change as “my generation’s nuclear-free moment”. The promised zero carbon bill is now underway, but in an unusual … Read More