Upcoming event: The Climate Adaptation-Mitigation Conundrum
Does responding to climate warming require both a fast reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation) AND efforts to protect people and nature from the impacts (adaptation)? David Spratt will address these questions in an upcoming webinar supported by Wise Response, Our Climate Declaration, ESR, Degrowth Aotearoa, Seniors Climate Action Network, and Nelson-Tasman Climate Forum.
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Upcoming Event: “Competition for the market” versus New Zealand’s electricity market design
Join ESR’s webinar on Wednesday 15th July where academic economist Dr Geoff Bertram will discuss the competitive challenge from renewables entering New Zealand’s electricity market. The seminar looks at possible future outcomes for NZ’s electricity market structure and explores ideas that could facilitate genuine competition for the market in a decentralised industry.
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April 2026
CONTENTS: The Russia-Ukraine energy shock: Why geopolitics demands a clean
energy shift – Iran war shatters Trump Administration’s case for fossil fuels – Climate Challenge: A Decade After Paris Agreement – How extreme weather is leaving thousands of homes uninsurable – The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past – Scientists use sunlight and gallium to make green hydrogen – How Europe can turn cement into a quick win for climate.
February 2026
CONTENTS – schools, airports, high-rise towers: architects urged to get ‘bamboo-ready’ – first global hybrid renewables project – farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods – an data centres slake their insatiable thirst for water? – inside the battle to power AI – US exit of key UN climate treaty criticized as self-sabotage – flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global
economy, experts warn – global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief – Global Monitoring Laboratory data
Video coming soon: Beyond the Hype – The Strengths, Weaknesses, and Impacts of Modern AI
In our webinar on Wednesday 18th March, Emeritus Professor Anthony Robins covered a very brief history and overview of the various technologies that have been and are called “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), with a focus on the currently significant “large language models” such as ChatGPT.
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November 2025
CONTENTS – Three Sobering Charts – Shanghai’s Underwater Data Centre – Transforming Africa’s food system with renewable energy – Australia’s clean power push – EU agrees weakened climate target for COP30 – How sickly forests are felling Europe’s climate ambitions – Solar Geoengineering
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Recent Event: Quantifying the contribution of climate change to extreme weather events
When an extreme heat wave, torrential downpour, or massive wildfire occurs, how do we know whether and how much of a role climate change played? Resilient River Communities hosted this presentation by Dr. Kristina Dahl on 16th December, covering the basics of climate attribution science.
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