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Two things Paris will need to break the deadlock
It’s just gone midnight, we’re already a day and a half overtime, and there’s yet another new decision text freshly out. It is, the COP President Manuel Pulgar-Vidal tells us, a compromise where...
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Oil spill off Taranaki, New Zealand
Maritime NZ confirmed today it was investigating a spill from the floating oil storage facility Raroa, the third at the site in less than five years. The Raroa, a converted oil tanker is 250m long and...
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Why I Fast: New Zealanders and the Philippines’ typhoons
Activists call for solidarity not just sympathy in Lima I haven’t eaten today. I am fasting with the global #Fastfortheclimate movement. I’ve written about the Fast here before, and I won’t repeat the...
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Bill McKibben fasts for the climate
Today, Bill McKibben of 350.org joins the worldwide Fast for the Climate movement’s 365 day rolling climate fast from Lima to Paris. He won’t eat today to stand in solidarity with the victims of...
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Where’s New Zealand’s climate plan? And who’s counting what?
New Zealand should have submitted its plan for shaking itself off its carbon addiction on Tuesday. It didn’t. Instead, our Government started to sell off new oil drilling rights on Monday and tried to...
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Yeb Saño fasts for the climate – and quits diplomacy to seek climate justice
Eighteen months ago, then Philippines Climate Commissioner Naderev ‘Yeb’ Saño did something extraordinary. When he addressed the opening of the Warsaw climate talks just after Typhoon Haiyan struck...
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Another oil spill in New Zealand waters
A large oil leak in the Tauranga Harbour is believed to have been caused by two very small corrosion holes in a Mobil fuel pipeline. An unknown amount of oil leaked into Tauranga Harbour on Monday...
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Replacing Russel: Who will continue the NZ Greens’ climate leadership?
Since his 2006 election as Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand co-leader, Russel Norman has steadily built the Party’s calibre on climate issues. Over and over again, he – along with Kennedy Graham,...
View ArticleNew Zealand Minister of Conservation: “I refute the facts”
When I was growing up in the 1990s, Maggie Barry was a beloved television presenter. Her gardening expertise was unparalleled. Whether your question was where to plant your hyacinths or how to really...
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BREAKING: New Zealand opens consultation on post 2020 climate plan
Today, New Zealand’s Government opened consultation on our plan for a low carbon economy after 2020 – our Intended Nationally Determined Contribution. This is the plan we submit to the United Nations...
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Five key takeaways from the UN review of climate targets before Paris
On Friday, the UNFCCC Secretariat released its ‘Synthesis report on the aggregate effect of the intended nationally determined contributions‘ (let’s jut call it the Synthesis Report). This is the UN’s...
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