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  MAF warns Government - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  In the paper this morning I referred to the MAF briefing to the incoming Government released yesterday.The Government’s press release chose to focus on bland reassertion of the fact that agriculture is the back-bone of the economy as if someone had forgotten. Far more topical is the briefing’s sage advice for our climate change negotiators [...] read more
  December 2, 2008 2:22 pm - 23 Comments
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  National rejects expert advice? - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  Yesterday I was informed that a number of officials have been dumped from the New Zealand Government delegation to the climate change talks in Poznan, Poland [PDF factsheet]. Apparently, a number of senior officials from the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry for the Environment who were all set to attend to advice our Ministers [...] read more
  December 2, 2008 2:16 pm - 40 Comments
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  Countdown to Copenhagen - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace has turned it’s front webpage into a giant countdown clock leading to Copenhagen to highlight how little time we have left to cut a real deal on climate change. I quite like it. Temperature increases, global emissions and loss of ice at the Arctic and Antarctic have now overshot scientists’ worst case scenarios. The [...] read more
  December 1, 2008 3:08 pm - 12 Comments