deforestation Archive

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  Forests and accounting are the big deal at Cancun - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  While there was never a great expectation for a legally binding global agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions at the Cancun climate talks, there is hope that the talks will see progress in stopping deforestation, which was calamitously overlooked by the original Kyoto Protocol. The scheme to watch for is Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and [...] read more
  December 8, 2010 1:35 pm - 1 Comment
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  The milk ad they don’t want you to see - by frog

  
  
  
  Warning: starts out nice, ends badly. For phil read more
  October 7, 2010 9:47 pm - 21 Comments
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  Will 2010 see the world’s first Green president? - by frog

  
  
  
  About time, I’d say, and Brazil could be where it happens. Kennedy Graham received an email at the weekend quoting this article, Brazil’s Presidential Race Gets Interesting, from the Green Party of Brazil. Marina Silva: tree hugger and presidential candidate Marina Silva, a Senator and former environment minister in President Lula da Silva’s government, has decided [...] read more
  March 8, 2010 6:35 am - 5 Comments
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  Timber report shows need for ‘good wood’ Bill - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry released a fascinating new report today. The research project, Environmental Impacts of Multi-Story Buildings Using Different Construction Materials, modelled the life cycle energy use and carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent emissions of four similar office building designs that used different materials as their main structural element: concrete, steel, timber and [...] read more
  July 24, 2009 4:00 pm - 28 Comments
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  Fair Trade Forests - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  This week in London, Chatham House are hosting the 14th conference in a series on illegal logging. With deforestation accounting for at least 20% of greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention the loss of 137 plant, animal and insect species per day, action is urgently needed. Of equal, if not greater, concern is the ruthless [...] read more
  June 23, 2009 9:56 am - 5 Comments
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  Governments gone bad - by frog

  
  
  
  This morning’s Herald Sideswipe has a cute commentary on the often overlooked culprits in climate destruction – governments. Brazil’s Environment Ministry wanted to find out who were the biggest illegal loggers in their country, but unfortunately it found out the worst offender was the government itself. In fact, the six largest deforested areas of the [...] read more
  October 21, 2008 11:07 am - 7 Comments
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  Greenwash by governments and Barbie dolls - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace’s Bunny McDiarmid has an opinion piece in today’s Dominion post exposing the Government’s greenwash on World Environment Day [not online - but a similar Greenpeace story is available here]. She uncovers New Zealand’s massive and increasing greenhouse emissions, large scale deforestation, coal exports, and backtracking over the Emissions Trading Scheme. New Zealand is pretending [...] read more
  June 5, 2008 4:07 pm - 21 Comments
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  OPEN LETTER to Paul Lennon, Premier of Tasmania - by Jeanette Fitzsimons

  
  
  
  Jeanette here. This evening I had this letter delivered to Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon at a parliamentary function. The Premier is here researching New Zealand climate change initiatives, and I felt there was one thing in particular he could learn from our experience in New Zealand: 22 May 2008 OPEN LETTER to Paul Lennon, Premier [...] read more
  May 22, 2008 8:34 pm - 23 Comments
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  Science solves global warming - by frog

  
  
  
  Every once in while someone comes up with a nifty new idea that’s going to save us from facing up to global warming and solving it the old fashioned ‘hard work’ way.  Last week we had Helen Clark’s Emissions Trading Scheme that exempts most major polluters.  Previously some of you may remember proposals for giant [...] read more
  May 15, 2008 9:26 am - 4 Comments
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  Too much meat? - by frog

  
  
  
  There were some interesting articles over the weekend about meat farming. The New York Times warns that: Global demand for meat has multiplied in recent years, encouraged by growing affluence and nourished by the proliferation of huge, confined animal feeding operations. These assembly-line meat factories consume enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant [...] read more
  January 28, 2008 11:48 am - 17 Comments