July 2017

– 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

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January 2017

– 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

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September 2016

– 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

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July 2016

– New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions
– Global warming is already having major impacts
– What would a global increase of 1.5 C be like?
– Can we reduce CO2 emissions and grow the global economy?
– Electric vehicles
– Auckland Climate Change Forum Scoping meeting
– Carbon capture and storage
– Urban sprawl
– ESR Climate Change Papers update
– Engineers Without Borders annual conference

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