kyoto Archive

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  Copenhagen II: Gentlemen (Ladies?), Choose your Weapons - by Kennedy Graham

  
  
  
  The first week of the Copenhagen Conference has not been without its drama.  This will of course be nothing compared to Week 2, but the preliminaries have been fast and furious. The best-known drama has been the leaked ‘Danish draft’.  This has been reported as infuriating the developing world, especially the major emerging economies – [...] read more
  December 14, 2009 10:24 pm - 12 Comments
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  Green MPs Support 350 Challenge - by frog

  
  
  
  Green MPs support Bill McKibben’s campaign to reduce carbon in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, down from the current 389 ppm which is going up every year.  Scientists believe this would keep the global temperature rise to less than 2C. Meanwhile, the NACT government struggles with denial.  National’s “target” is a 50% reduction [...] read more
  June 9, 2009 7:00 am - 42 Comments
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  The ETS and Strings theory - by Jeanette Fitzsimons

  
  
  
  Hi Strings, you raised some really interesting questions in the comment section of this ETS post and I’m sorry I haven’t had time to answer them till now: We can’t “leave agriculture out of Kyoto” – it is already in, for all countries, and all countries have liabilities that include all their emissions above their [...] read more
  May 18, 2009 11:18 am - 18 Comments
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  Govt misses big picture for the Kyoto trees - by Jeanette Fitzsimons

  
  
  
  The revised “net position” of New Zealand’s Kyoto liability shows why forest sinks should never have been tradable against emissions from burning fossil fuels. This was a central argument at Kyoto in 1997 as the world struggled to set rules for reducing emissions internationally. The EU, and environmentalists, for different reasons, argued that forest sinks [...] read more
  April 20, 2009 8:33 am - 44 Comments
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  Green Party pulls plug for planet’s sake - by frog

  
  
  
  In a bold move to combat global warming and the Government’s indifference to New Zealand’s Kyoto commitments, the Green Party is leading from the front and will immediately stop using most electrical appliances in its Parliamentary offices as of today. “The current Government’s laissez-faire attitude to carbon emissions means that more needs to be done. [...] read more
  April 1, 2009 4:11 pm - 16 Comments
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  Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark - by frog

  
  
  
  Any tadpoles out there in the first blush of an amorous amphibian liaison would be wise to book a date for Saturday night when you’ll have a great excuse to turn out the lights. It’s Earth Hour and we’re all encouraged to kill the lights between 8.30 and 9.30 PM.  The Parliament is doing it.  [...] read more
  March 27, 2009 3:58 pm - 20 Comments
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  Scientist’s Warning to Humanity - by frog

  
  
  
  In 1992, not long after the Rio Summit, the Union of Concerned Scientists published a warning to all of humanity. Unfortunately, little, if any, of their recommendations have been heeded. Instead, we continue along the unsustainable growth trajectory that they so deplored. Almost 1700 scientists signed the declaration, including 104 Nobel Prize winners. Here is [...] read more
  December 20, 2008 4:27 pm - 49 Comments
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  Russel and Rodney debate the economy - by frog

  
  
  
  TV3′s ASB Business show this morning featured a brawling debate between Russel and Rodney Hide this morning which includes Hide’s extraordinary proposal to pull New Zealand out of it’s international Kyoto commitments and, as Russel described it, have New Zealand tagged as a global climate criminal.  As Russel mentions during the debate the two biggest [...] read more
  October 22, 2008 11:42 am - 29 Comments
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  Kyoto’s International ETS went live this week - by frog

  
  
  
  The UN Climate Change secretariat announced Tuesday the integration of dozens of international transaction logs to form one large global emissions trading system. ‘ETS go-live has been a high priority project for the UNFCCC secretariat. We have worked closely with the European Commission and the EU member states in coordinating the extensive preparatory work that [...] read more
  October 16, 2008 10:35 am - 3 Comments
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  Up, up and away - by frog

  
  
  
  I see the government says New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions for 2006 were 77.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2-e). And they are ‘less than’ 1% more than our 2005 emissions, which were 3% more than our 2004 emissions. We are gently sliding further away from our Kyoto target of 61.9 Mt CO2-e. [...] read more
  April 18, 2008 3:43 pm - 17 Comments
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  Big money buys delay at Bali - by frog

  
  
  
  Guardian commenter, George Monbiot, is in a grumpy mood in the aftermath of the Bali talks on climate change.  To his way of seeing things the US has sabotaged the potential of both the Kyoto talks ten years ago and now the Bali talks by demanding terms that were unacceptable to developing nations, threatening to [...] read more
  December 18, 2007 12:24 pm - 9 Comments
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  Target Practice - by frog

  
  
  
  Well, it looks like the US, China, Canada and Japan are going to hold Bali to ransom and prevent anything substantial from coming out of it. Not that I expected any grand outcome, just a decent framework to keep the post-Kyoto negotiations going. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a link to The Big [...] read more
  December 14, 2007 3:18 pm - 7 Comments
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  Labour and National’s climate change record - by frog

  
  
  
  Kiwiblog has some interesting stats on New Zealand’s appalling carbon emissions record. DPF is right that there would be howls of protest from the Greens if this happened under a National government. Just like there have been under the Labour led government. As the Greens are constantly pointing out, when it comes to climate change [...] read more
  December 11, 2007 4:55 pm - 9 Comments
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  Miss Sustainability - by frog

  
  
  
  Here’s a few extracts from the Prime Minister’s speech to the German Council for Sustainable Development yesterday: …New Zealand enjoys a priceless reputation as a nation with a pristine environment, which is clean and green, nuclear free, and, as our tourism promotions proclaim, one hundred per cent pure. …These considerations, along with great concern about the [...] read more
  November 29, 2007 9:56 am - 12 Comments