2012-01-20 13:54:40 // Bryan Walker
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The task of turning governments worldwide away from fossil fuel exploration and extraction seems herculean. But we have no alternative than to keep at it
2012-01-19 09:34:01 // Sustain Team
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Want to help solve the climate crisis? Think you have the leadership skills to be one of the key leaders in climate change? Then read on.
2011-12-13 14:23:08 // Kate Beecroft
After years of haggling, feet-dragging and out-and-out quarreling at UNFCCC conferences, the 2011 Durban Climate Change negotiations ended on the weekend with an agreement.
2011-12-08 09:20:39 // Vernon Rive
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Climate change minister Tim Groser sees a potential deal involving a 'landing zone' that he describes as 'Kyoto Plus' and says the ETS will not be abandoned at any cost.
2011-12-05 09:34:01 // Vernon Rive
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Vernon Rive reports back from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Durban and finds the Kyoto Protocol at death's door.
2011-11-30 14:54:29 // Sustain Team
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Will Durban salvage what could have been achieved at Copenhagen, or should we expect a South African stand-off?
2011-10-19 12:04:52
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New Zealand’s pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 10-20 percent below 1990 levels has been rated as ‘inadequate’ by organisation Climate Action Tracker. Other countries joining New Zealand in the inadequate category include Australia, China, Kazakhstan, the US, the Russian Federation, and the EU.
2011-10-06 11:20:50 // David Trubridge
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David Trubridge on free trade, the battle lines drawn between environmentalism and capitalism, and the elephant in the room.
2011-09-19 15:03:42 // Sustain Team
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Here’s a particularly timely event given the ‘slow down on agriculture’ advice given by the review panel’s report on the ETS. Three of New Zealand’s leading climate experts will discuss the significant environmental and economic benefits of embracing sustainable practices in farming as part of a regional speaking series already underway.
2011-09-01 10:17:19 // David Trubridge
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Describing big business as the brat kids and governments as the ineffectual parents, David Trubridge explores why it is, despite numerous warnings from the scientific community, world governments have failed to take any significant action to prevent climate change, pollution and environmental desecration.
2011-08-08 14:27:38 // Sustain Team
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When it comes to the biggest climate change culprit, the finger is often pointed at carbon dioxide (CO2) but a recent study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has found that while CO2 remains the “undisputed king of recent climate change”, other greenhouse gases also have a considerable role to play. But, even if we could target these gases, would it be enough to reduce the impacts of climate change? Perhaps.
2011-07-18 16:02:45 // Deirdre Robert
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Biofuel is often heralded as a step in the right direction when it comes to the development of cleaner fuels. But scratch below the oily surface and all is not as it seems. According to European Union reports some biodiesel (a form of biofuel that can be used to power diesel engines) may actually increase the impacts of climate change. Perplexed? You should be. Reuters’s Charlie Dunmore explains.
2011-07-15 09:51:36 // Deirdre Robert
We’re lucky to be living in a country surrounded by so much beautiful ocean. But as well as its aesthetic function, the ocean plays a critical role in CO2 absorption, sucking up as much as one-third of all human-made carbon emissions. But how exactly is climate change affecting its ability to fulfil this critical function? A new analysis by the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds some conflicting results.
2011-07-11 11:24:29 // Duncan Greive
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What if we could access solar energy as easily and cheaply as the grid? An idealistic young Kiwi is at the centre of a technology that could radically reshape the global economy.
2010-11-19 11:39:08 // Celsias Team
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He’s extremely captivating and can summarise in 10 minutes what might take some one hour to articulate. We caught up with renowned and influential Canadian scientist, environmentalist, educator and broadcaster David Suzuki on his recent visit to New Zealand, to discuss the prospects of a sustainable global future.
Right now, says Suzuki, we’re heading towards a brick wall at 100 miles per hour. But we don’t know enough about how nature operates to say it’s too late or that we’ve passed too many tipping points. But the situation is dire.
He says that while the majority of high level business executives believe climate change is real and caused by humans, the business community is held captive the game they have to play.
And don’t look to the markets either. He tells us why putting the onus on markets to offer solutions is a “load of bullshit”.
2009-06-30 10:18:21 // Matt Cooney
// The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist The Atlantic reports that some sicentists are considering “radical—and possibly extremely dangerous—schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force”. One plan suggests tethered zeppelins spraying sulphur into the atmosphere, giving that authentic Blade Runner effect. There’s an interesting set of other drawbacks, too …
