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Kevin Anderson on Irelands agriculture and climate change a lesson for New...
While recently in Ireland Kevin Anderson also gave an interview to John Gibbons of the Irish website called Think or Swim. The interview was recorded on Vimeo and is not on You Tube.I am highlighting...
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Opening up the data on emissions units in the NZ emissions trading scheme
In this post I include a gratuitous image of Marlon Brandon as the Godfather because all this wonky open data stuff I have been doing lately might be a bit boring. But I do eventually get around to a...
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New Zealand Steel and the unethical two-for-one - free emission units and...
In this post there is still a gratuitous image of Marlon Brandon as the Godfather but the post is about one of New Zealand's biggest companies; New Zealand Steel. They just opposed the possible ending...
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Did New Zealand Steel make windfall arbitrage profits from the New Zealand...
In the wake of the Morgan Foundations hard-hitting report "Climate Cheats", Simon Johnson (aka Mr February) asks if New Zealand Steel received millions of emission units for free under the New Zealand...
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Minister for Climate Change Paula Bennett denies climate cheating with dodgy...
In which Jack Tame conducts the toughest interview ever with a New Zealand Minister for Climate Change and Paula Bennett ends up denying that the Government cheated on it's climate change...
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The Huntly power station decision - energy emission reductions to 2020 up in...
The decision to keep the Huntly coal thermal power station open for another four years is not only contrary to all New Zealand's commitments and climate targets, it also sends the Ministry for the...
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Helter smelter deja vu Tiwai Point smelter uncertainty stalls renewables for...
I look at how unethical behaviour by New Zealand Aluminium Smelter Limited is behind the Meridian/Genesis deal keeping the Huntly Thermal Power Station burning coal as the threat of closing the Tiwai...
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An open letter to Minister for Climate Change Issues Paula Bennett cancel the...
In which I write to Paula Bennett and ask her to cancel the 124 million surplus emission units.Paula Bennett's first act as the new Minister for Climate Change Issues was to announce that yes indeed...
View ArticleSaturday night listening White Valiant The Muttonbirds live in 1994
The Muttonbirds are a terrific band led by the indefatigable Don McGlashan in the 1990s.Although Nature and The Heater are arguably better-known songs, this is the subtly disturbing 'White Valiant'...
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Emissions Trading Scheme unit allocations are open data but units surrendered...
It would be good if we could compare actual company emissions under the NZETS to the generous free allocations of unit some entities receive. But we can't. It's half secret. So how will we ever know if...
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Turn off Meridian open letter to Mark Binns on why I am divesting from...
When is a renewable electricity generator not a renewable electricity generator? Or what do you do when the electricity generator who are claiming to supply your home with 100% renewable electricity...
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Minister for Climate Change Issues Paula Bennett and the surplus emission units
A wee while ago, back on 23 May to be precise, I wrote an open letter to Minister for Climate Change Issues Paula Bennett calling on her to cancel the surplus Kyoto emission units held by the Crown.I...
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New Kevin Anderson talk Delivering 2 Degrees Triumph and Tragedy in Paris
The other day I noticed that Kevin Anderson has tweeted a new talk.Anderson spoke at the University of Sheffield on 28 April 2016. Anderson's host was the Carbon Neutral University Network Sheffield...
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Kevin Anderson Beyond Dangerous Climate Change Does Paris Lock-out 2 Degrees?
There is another new talk by Kevin Anderson. The image is his title page and the title is Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Does Paris Lock-out 2 Degrees?.Kevin Anderson gave the talk on 9th of March...
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Where is the Two Degrees Celsius Carbon Budget for New Zealand?
I have been reading up about carbon budgets on and off since the Paris Agreement at COP21 last December.By 'carbon budget' I mean "a finite amount of carbon that can be burnt before it becomes unlikely...
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Morgan Foundation's Climate Cheats II: Who’s the Real Cheat Here? The Dozen...
Geoff Simmons and the Morgan Foundation have done it again! They have just released a sequel to 'Climate Cheats', the fantastically-named 'Who’s the Real Cheat Here? Climate Cheats II: The Dozen Dirty...
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Geoff Simmons fact checks Paula Bennett's claim that the surplus units are clean
Geoff Simmons fact-checks Paula Bennett on the integrity of the surplus emission units. But has Geoff had a reverse make-over? Contact lenses instead of glasses? Whats happened to the wild shirts? The...
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The Ministry for the Environment's disavowed orphan carbon budget
Did you know that the Ministry for the Environment prepared a 'two degrees' carbon budget in 2014?The relevant report "Potential long-term pathways to a low carbon economy for New Zealand", Wellington,...
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Is it in the spirit of the Paris Agreement to ratify it with more emissions...
Is the New Zealand Government's plan to ratify the Paris Agreement in 2016 consistent with a two degrees Celsius (2C) carbon budget?Since the December 2015 Paris Agreement, the British climate...
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What are we waiting for?
In this guest post, the non - flying Wellington barrister and solicitor Tom Bennion writes about the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) proposals for 'carbon-neutral' growth of greenhouse...
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