Posts Tagged ‘Climate crisis’
Navigating Low-Carbon Building Design: Journeys of France and New Zealand
Join our webinar on Wednesday 20th August to hear 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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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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January 2025
CONTENTS – Global CO2 emissions in 2024
– Climate crisis effects on Earth’s water cycle – US homeowners in disaster-prone states face soaring insurance costs – Climate change and geopolitics – EU’s electricity mix in 2024 – Toxic PFAS pollution in UK and Europe – Flatulence tax: Denmark agrees deal for livestock emissions levy – Sites without sound: Oslo leads in quiet, low emission electric construction – Report says blue hydrogen gives false hope for green steel – How to make oxygen on the moon – Recommended reading – ESR Prizewinner, Zion Young
November 2024
CONTENTS – Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate
experts – Five main takeaways from the Global Commission on the Economics of
Water Report, October 2024 – Extracts from IEA World Energy Outlook 2024 Executive Summary – Extracts from Energy Source & Distribution Magazine, Sep/Oct 2024 – Reducing climate emissions from farm livestock – Energy-saving coffee concrete makes major project debut – Deakin launches hydrogen R&D hub in Warrnambool – Amid Australia’s chaotic climate politics, the rooftop solar boom is an unlikely triumph – First Dog on the Moon, 11 October 2024.
Watch video: Presentation of ESR’s submission on the Second Emissions Reduction Plan
Watch a video summary of ESR’s submission to the consultation document “New Zealand’s second emissions reduction plan”, presented by two of its authors, Professor Emeritus Thomas Neitzert and Dr Peter Whitmore. The presentation is followed by a Q&A session and a discussion
of next steps.
Submission in response to the Crown Minerals Amendment Bill 2024
This submission relates to the Crown Minerals Amendment Bill, on which public submissions opened on 26 September 2024. ESR very strongly recommend that the ban on offshore oil and gas exploration not be removed. Instead, we need to be taking very rapid action to reduce our emissions by moving away from the use of fossil fuels.
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September 2024
CONTENTS – A history of the human mind – What is degrowth and can it save the planet? – News items from Reuters Sustainable Switch, August 2024 – Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. – Submission on the second emissions reduction plan consultation, 26/08/2024 – National Land Transport Programme 2024-27
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