August 2025
CONTENTS – Eight reasons to be hopeful amid global challenges – IRENA Report excerpts – The renewable energy revolution – Grid forming batteries and syncons to bolster NSW grid – ‘Plastic crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age – Economic assumptions no longer relevant.
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Watch Video: Now that we’ve reached 1.5ºC, what next?
Hear from David Spratt, the lead Research Director for Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Australia. This webinar is cosponsored by Our Climate Declaration, the Wise Response Society, Engineers for Social Responsibility, Degrowth Aotearoa New Zealand, Seniors Climate Action Network, and the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum.
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Video coming soon: Navigating Low-Carbon Building Design – Journeys of France and New Zealand
On Wednesday 20th August we heard Anais Guennoc and Julio Ortiz discuss the Environmental Regulation RE2020 which has been introduced in France, making it one of the first countries to adopt legislation with regulatory thresholds on whole-of-life embodied carbon for buildings. What lessons can be learned for the building and construction industry in New Zealand?
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June 2025
CONTENTS – Don’t blame renewables – Climate projects can bring big economic benefits – Tide is turning in Europe and beyond in favour of nuclear power – AI can help us protect the planet – Electric scooters and a salt battery push in China – WA gets first-ever home battery rebate and loan scheme – Shipping industry still at sea as it tries to navigate to net zero – Albanese announces $1.2B plan to purchase critical minerals – Items from Energy Source & Distribution Magazine
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Watch video: Tipping Points and Planetary Solvency
In this webinar, Professor Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter summarises recent evidence regarding climate tipping points. Associated is the concept of Planetary Solvency, which defines catastrophic impacts as economic contraction with a GDP loss of over 25%, mass human mortality events resulting in over 2 billion deaths, warming of 2 degrees or greater, triggering high numbers of tipping points. Brought to you by ESR, Wise Response, Our Climate Declaration, Degrowth Aotearoa and the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum.
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ESR Submission to Parliament on Traffic Congestion Charging
ESR made a submission to the Transport and Infrastructure Committee of Parliament on the Land Transport Management
(Time of Use Charging) Amendment Bill 2025 to sensitively support the use of congestion charging in a way that doesn’t penalise the poor
April 2025
CONTENTS: From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers – UK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’ – Nearly 100% of lithium recycled in latest research – UQ researchers set new solar cell world record – Plants are losing their appetite – WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts – Trump Administration plans to gut NOAA – Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism as we know it, warns top insurer
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Watch video: Insights from a community energy project
In this presentation, Stuart Potter will provide first-hand insights arising from the purchase and operation of Heart of England Community Energy, a series of three 5 MW solar energy sites based north of Stratford Upon Avon in the UK. This is one of the largest community solar farms in the UK, made up of around 60,000 solar panels, and has been generating clean and sustainable electricity since 2016.
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