Posts by ESR

– The new food: meet the startups racing to reinvent the meal
– UN data suggests that the world’s population will hit 11 billion by 2100
– Climate change to drive migration from island homes sooner than thought
– New technology could slash carbon emissions from aluminium production
– California’s global warming solutions
– Netherlands to build world’s first habitable 3D printed houses
– World’s first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden
– Auckland University of Technology’s comments on the Low-emissions economy draft
report by the New Zealand Productivity Commission
– ESR papers available on-line

– ‘Silver bullet’ to suck CO2 from air and halt climate change ruled out.
– Climeworks Carbon Capture Plants
– Carbfix
– Aviation Biofuels & Shipping Emissions
– Electric Vehicles
– New York City’s Fossil Fuel Divestment
– Emissions, Road User Charges and EVs – A Strategy: by ESR Member Cliff Turner
– Extracts from UNFOLD ZERO Newsletter, 25 February 2018
– Comment from the President: What can we do about Auckland’s recycling efforts?
– ESR 15 March AGM Notice. The AGM is to be followed by discussions by Sir Alan Mark and Rhys Williams on a Carbon Zero Act.

– Trends that could beat global warming
– World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
– Light rail along Dominion Road, Auckland
– Do we want to get serious about NZ’s CO2 emissions from transport?
– The US will become a net oil exporter within 10 years, says the IEA
– New Zealand climate data
– Wise Response submission to Productivity Commission

– Sea level rise
– Floods
– Big Carbon
– NOAA Global CO2 June 2017
– Emission budget and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 C
– NASA: 2016 Global Temperature Increase 0.99C relative to 1951-1980 Average
– Electric Cars
– Global carbon emissions stood still in 2016
– Solar Power is Fastest Growing Source of New Energy

– Extracts from “We are wasting the beautiful world we have been given”
– Extracts from Clive Hamilton’s “Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the Anthropocene”
– Plastic Waste
– Extracts from Skating on Thin Ice, Economist 29 April 2017
– Generation Zero Launches Climate Act Initiative – NZ Climate Declaration
– North Island Main Trunk Line de-electrification

– Comment on moves towards reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
– The warming Arctic
– US Energy Production
– Traditional car industry and climate change
– Indian Firm makes carbon capture break-through
– To deal with climate change we need a new financial system
– (Un)Natural disasters: communicating linkages between extreme events and climate change
– This is not normal – Climate researchers take to the streets to protect science
– Nuclear weapons
– UN moves towards a ban on nuclear weapons

– A new type of politics could help prevent climate disaster
– G20 will blow the Paris climate targets – report
– Soaring ocean temperature is “greatest hidden challenge of our generation”
– The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age
– Letter from UN Assn NZ requesting help on implementation of the goals and targets of UN Sustainable Development Goals
– Meeting Notice for ESR in Auckland on 20 October 2016