Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’

Dec
3

Green New Deal good deal for wilding pine problem

“I welcome the release of the Green Party New Deal. It provides useful ideas on some of the environmental issues confronting New Zealand. In particular, I am pleased that they have picked up on my recommendation to sort out the wilding pines [ More ] [ Read More ]

Dec
3

New Green plan for jobs & more, healthier forests

New Zealand can create thousands of jobs and store millions of tonnes of carbon according to new research from the Green Party. Planting 665,000 hectares of new forests and making existing forests healthier would generate an estimated 50,000 job years and ... [ Read More ]

Dec
2

Greens: Plant forests, create jobs, save climate

Planting 665,000ha of new forests would create 50,000 new jobs and store nearly 34 million tonnes of carbon, the Green Party said today when it launched its latest economic plan. [ Read More ]

Nov
16

Where does the money for carbon credits go?

Under New Zealand's Kyoto protocol obligations where will taxpayer money go and how do carbon credits work? [ Read More ]

Aug
27

High stakes in Trans Tasman ETS harmonisation

New Zealand taxpayers face paying an extra $200 million a year if the Government fails to properly think through how to harmonise Australian and New Zealand emissions trading schemes, Labour’s Climate Change Issues spokesperson Charles Chauvel says. ... [ Read More ]