ETS Archive

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  Less than 2 percent - by frog

  
  
  
  The Emissions Trading Scheme will only reduce emissions by 2 percent.  So a reader writes asking a query about the following John Key statement: I told the group that while we must play our part in the fight against climate change, we shouldn’t be the world leader, because that will come at the expense of [...] read more
  October 28, 2008 1:42 pm - 9 Comments
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  Chicken Nats afraid to front on Back Benches - by frog

  
  
  
  Wallace Chapman of TVNZ7′s Back Benches programme gave a not too subtle hint to the Nats that they really might want to front up to the programme again, despite the disastrous policy gaffes and leaks of the last few weeks. On this week’s show, he opened with: National have declined to be on the show [...] read more
  September 12, 2008 12:03 pm - 22 Comments
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  Did the Nats leave the Maori Party at the altar? - by frog

  
  
  
  There has been a whirlwind of interest and speculation as to why the National party pulled support at the last moment for a Maori Party amendment to the Emissions Trading legislation. The amendment would have inserted a clause giving effect to the Treaty of Waitangi as well as a targeted review of the effect of [...] read more
  September 11, 2008 4:32 pm - 137 Comments
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  24 hours - by frog

  
  
  
  The cliché goes that a lot can change in 24 hours, particularly in politics. Needless to say I haven’t read them myself, but some poor souls are wading through over 700 email responses that Jeanette has received in just the first 24 hours. Ask, and you shall receive. It seems that Kiwis do have something [...] read more
  August 22, 2008 4:03 pm - 119 Comments
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  Have your say - by frog

  
  
  
  Here are the two clips that comprise Jeanette’s press conference this afternoon. Have a listen, then send your opinion to ets@greens.org.nz Then there is: It’s time to have your say on the ETS. read more
  August 21, 2008 5:49 pm - 40 Comments
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  Focussing on what matters - by frog

  
  
  
  Is a price on carbon enough? Or do we need complimentary measures to make sure that we get the emissions reductions we need? These were the questions asked of Jeanette and other key leaders at the climate change conference yesterday. All the speakers, except Jeanette, said that it was about 80/20, that a price on [...] read more
  August 21, 2008 9:39 am - 65 Comments
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  Key questions SPARC expenditure. Frog questions Crosby/Textor expenditure. - by frog

  
  
  
  I was trolling the blogosphere, as one does on a rainy Friday afternoon, and had a read of David Slack’s post over at Public Address. He was questioning John Key’s questioning of SPARC’s budget for websites. After running through a very pertinent list of the hard work it would take to create websites that got [...] read more
  July 4, 2008 4:45 pm - 15 Comments
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  Carbon neutral cows - by frog

  
  
  
  Gareth Renowden’s Hot Topic blog traces the increasingly bizarre claim from climate science deniers (sorry, doubters) that cows are carbon neutral.  He begins noting an organisation called the “Carbon Sense Coalition” (the name says it all) is covering its own earlier pronouncement that that ‘cows are green’ because they store carbon: Methane breaks down to [...] read more
  July 2, 2008 11:14 am - 38 Comments
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  Agriculture MoU (Mooo) - by Jeanette Fitzsimons

  
  
  
  Today I questioned the Government about its 2003 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the agriculture sector. The Government has claimed in the past that this MOU prevents it from bringing agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) prior to 2013, however, the answers to my questions revealed a different situation altogether: 1. I asked if [...] read more
  June 18, 2008 6:59 pm - 12 Comments
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  Make the ETS fair and more urgent - by Jeanette Fitzsimons

  
  
  
  Some of the readers here may have heard my interview on RadioNZ’s Nine to Noon programme last week, outlining the changes the Greens need to see in order to support the ETS legislation. I notice that there has been some robust debate here about the need for action on climate change. For most people, including [...] read more
  June 7, 2008 3:38 pm - 70 Comments
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  Are the Wheels Falling Off the ETS? - by Jeanette Fitzsimons

  
  
  
  What started off as merely a flawed and highly complex system is getting progressively worse. After weeks of intensive hearings the implications are crystallising and the flaws becoming more apparent. At the same time the Government is engaged in a process of pandering to vested interests and watering down the scheme, notifying the select committee [...] read more
  May 14, 2008 1:19 pm - 48 Comments
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  Scrapping the thermal moratorium is a bad idea - by frog

  
  
  
  The NBR reports that the Nats are doing a deal with Labour to scrap the moratorium on new thermal generation in exchange for supporting the ETS through the House. In truth, only a grand coalition could possibly get an ETS through the House. However, I still think that the moratorium, (it’s not a ban, just [...] read more
  May 9, 2008 10:16 am - 32 Comments
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  Too many reports, not enough action on the ETS - by frog

  
  
  
  While the select committee struggles through the deluge of submissions on the ETS, the rest of us who are interested are forced to wade through the plethora of reports released this week in honour of our first serious attempt to tackle CO2 emissions. The report card? Not so good. The one thing that all the [...] read more
  May 2, 2008 2:39 pm - 5 Comments
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  EU carbon prices enjoy solid rise - by frog

  
  
  
  That’s the title of an interesting article over at CarbonPositive. Prices are rising as news of a modest increase in the EU’s emissions in 2007, (just 1%), bump up against the declining cap on emissions for 2008.   The price of the most-traded carbon contract, for forward delivery of EUAs in December 2008, closed at [...] read more
  April 12, 2008 1:06 pm - 7 Comments
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  Kerr is a contrarian, even with himself - by frog

  
  
  
  In a gloriously hypocritical about-face, the Business Roundtable announced today that a carbon tax would be better for business and the environment. In today’s Orwellian press release; Saving the Planet Must Not Cost the Earth, Kerr paints the Australians as having spent considerably more time than we have in evaluating their version of the ETS [...] read more
  March 28, 2008 2:21 pm - 9 Comments