Posts Tagged ‘Climate crisis’
Submission to the Prime Minister on the Required Reduction of New Zealand’s CO2 Emissions
We urge the New Zealand Government to set an ambitious target for reduction of our gross greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, and beyond, in advance of the UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Paris in late 2015.
Read MoreOtago Regional Council Policy Statement Review Consultation Draft 26
ESR’s submission focuses on responding to the potential impacts of climate change and on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It proposes some changes to the section headed Objective 2.3, including the addition of proposed Methods.
Read MoreSubmission on the New Zealand’s Climate Change Target Discussion Document: Ministry for the Environment
The Discussion Document sets out the issues relatively clearly and succinctly. However, the discussion reads like a series of excuses for avoiding or delaying action. Continuing to delay action is not a way forward. The following sets out a number of the issues raised in the discussion document and our responses.
Read MoreLetter to Engineering Insight Magazine
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. The negative effects particularly affect developing countries and are only beginning to be felt. They will increase greatly over coming decades unless we all accept our responsibilities and substantially reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
Read MoreSubmission to the Government on the ETS
Moving to a charging system for emissions that is simpler, fairer, more transparent, more effective and involves lower administration costs, for example a standard carbon charge payable to the government that applies to all New Zealand-based emissions.
Read MoreSubmission to the Government on the TPPA
The TPPA in its current form is strongly aligned to protecting relatively short-term corporate business interests rather than addressing more important and wider environmental and other issues.
Read MoreSubmission on the Proposed Zero Carbon Bill
Even though the importance of controlling global warming has become increasingly clear and more widely understood over the past 30 years, to date we have not set meaningful targets to significantly reduce emissions and we have not had any mechanisms in place that seem to have had any significant effect on driving reductions in emissions. Hence our net emissions have just continued to increase through most of this period.
Read MoreSubmission on the CPTPP Amendment Bill
We oppose ratification of the TPP in its present form (TPP-11), because its remaining investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions endanger our efforts to deal with climate change.
Read MoreSubmission to the Process Heat in New Zealand: Opportunities and Barriers to Lowering Emissions
While the Process Heat in NZ report covers a lot of useful points, and while a few organisations have already achieved significant reductions in their emissions, for many others fossil fuels remain the simplest, lease expensive and best understood option to provide heat. Moving away from them would require capital funding, installation of new equipment and processes, and the expertise to achieve this. If the carbon price were sufficient to drive change, then this change would happen.
Read MoreSubmission to the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill
We strongly support the Bill’s objective of limiting global heating to 1.5ºC, legislating targets projected to make this possible, creating a framework of five-yearly emissions budgets to make meeting the targets achievable, and establishing an independent Climate Change Commission to assist with the above.
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