The just released OECD environmental report gave New Zealand a fail for amongst other things our per capita greenhouse gas emissions being among the highest in the world. Former New Zealand Environment Minister Simon Upton led the compilation of … [Read more...]
Paula Bennett misleads on Paris Agreement target,
In case you missed it I had an opinion piece published in the NZ Herald last week. It was in response to Paula Bennett (our new deputy PM) who as Climate Change Minister wrote an opinion piece for the NZ Herald in which she misled readers about the … [Read more...]
Methane from livestock, not the problem CO2 emissions are.
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research have published a paper which states that short lived greenhouse gases (like methane) are quite different to long-lived GHGs (like CO2) In the report Motu say To stabilise the climate, it is necessary to … [Read more...]
Door opening for re think on agriculture’s contribution to gas emissions
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s report on biological emissions released last month has opened the door to a rethink on agriculture’s contribution to global warming. In her report she outlines the difference between a cyclical … [Read more...]
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment acknowledges methane and CO2 are different.
Parliamentary commissioner Jan Wright has released a report on biological greenhouse gases. The report is good news for farmers because in it Wright acknowledges the concerns we were set up to voice, and that is that methane and CO2 are vastly … [Read more...]
ETS Review
The ETS review is underway with submissions for the first part of the review closing on Friday 19th February. Biological emissions are part of the ETS but are exempted indefinitely and this is exemption is not part of the review. Also excluded from … [Read more...]
NZ Herald article by Robin Grieve
The New Zealand Herald published an article I wrote in response to statements made during the Paris Climate talks by our world leaders and some opinion piece writers that were inaccurate. While the article was primarily for that purpose I did manage … [Read more...]
Language changing over livestock emissions.
The Government has taken livestock emissions out of the ETS review for later this year. The ETS is an absolute joke so there will be plenty to review including the dodgy forestry credits NZ foresters sell, without the contentious issue of … [Read more...]
Double Triumph in Paris
The Paris talks have come and gone with a double triumph. Triumph 1 Nothing significant was agreed to. No binding agreement eventuated with the lofty goals of Copenhagen and hope of binding countries to emission reduction targets … [Read more...]
Methane vital for reducing global warming
Operation Cloud lab Watch on BBC Knowledge, channel 74 1/7/2015 at 9.30 p.m. 2/7/2015 at 4.55 a.m. and 11.25 a.m. This documentary proves that methane from rumen animals and wet lands is vital for keeping the earth cool. It is filmed … [Read more...]
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