Working together on climate change
The suggestion of a common or harmonised carbon emissions trading scheme with both Australia and NZ is to my eyes a good one. Australia is our largest trading partner, and having us implement such a...
View ArticleGreenpeace attacks Govt emissions trading scheme
Greenpeace has commissioned a report on the proposed NZ Emissions Trading Scheme. Now I blogged last Friday on how the Flexible Land Use Alliance warned that the proposed scheme would lock up land into...
View ArticleMore climate change problems for Govt
There is no portfolio area where the difference between rhetoric and reality is greater – than environment – specifically climate change. Clark talks about carbon neutrality while her growth in carbon...
View ArticleMike Moore on food
Mike Moore writes in the Herald on the food crisis: What has been the most successful 50 years of alleviating poverty in human history is threatened. What’s happening, what’s new? Nothing is more...
View ArticleNZIER on Emission Trading Scheme
The NZ Institute of Economic Research has done a report on the impact of the proposed Emissions Trading Scheme. The report is 77 pages long. For those who don’t read the whole thing, here are some key...
View ArticleETS in danger
The Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme may be heading the same way as their Biofuels legislation – with growing realisation the cures may be much worse than the disease. Colin Espiner blogged...
View ArticleMore Government flip-flops
At he same time as the Government is flip-flopping on biofuels, and flip-flopping on regional petrol taxes, they also are retreating from having the transport sector in the Emissions Trading Scheme....
View ArticleNRT on Labour’s climate flip-flops
No Right Turn joins the Greens with his unhapiness: It’s official: the government has delayed the entry of transport – our second largest source of emissions – into the ETS until 1 January 2011. So we...
View ArticleAustralian ETS delayed
Was reported last week that the Australian Government is looking to delay its ETS from implementation in 2010, due to an select inquiry into its effectiveness. So the small delay in NZ has us on much...
View ArticleThe NZ ETS
The Greenhouse Policy Coalition have published a fact sheet on the ETS. Specifically they compare it with the European ETS and the ETS proposed for Australia. This is very useful as in 2011, our ETS...
View ArticleBritish High Commission on European ETS
I blogged on Tuesday a comparison between the NZ ETS and the European ETS, concluding the NZ ETS is more “pure” as it includes all gases and all sectors. The British High Commission has sent me this...
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