Tagged: Zero Carbon Bill

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