Degrowth Scholar Anitra Nelson talking on Food, Housing and Neighbourhood Self-Sufficiency
Webinar 8 February 2023 at 7.30pm
WR Complaint re NZ Superannuation Fund
Wise Response has made a complaint to the Financial Markets Authority about the New Zealand Superfund (NZSF) making misleading claims to be a responsible investor. The complaint is available as a PDF here.
Financial regulator’s ‘frightening’ failure to define ethical investments
Breach of the State Services Commissioner’s Code for Standards of Integrity and Conduct Wise Response made two formal complaints about the breach of the State Services Commissioner’s code for Standards of Integrity and Conduct. The first deals with the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) unwillingness to amend their Disclosure framework for Integrated Financial Products. (In that …
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Wise Response submission to the National Adaptation Plan 2022
The Wise Response Society has submitted to the Ministry for the Environment on the draft National Adaptation Plan. The submission is available as a PDF here.
WR Workshop: How to respond to a future with less abundant resources?
A Recording of the zoom meeting is available from Victoria University here.
Book Review: Herman Daly’s Economics for a Full World: His Life and Ideas
This is available as a PDF here. BOOK REVIEW: HERMAN DALY’S ECONOMICS FOR A FULL WORLD: His Life and IdeasBook by Peter A. VictorReview by Jack Santa BarbaReview by Jack Santa Barbara, Ph.D. New Zealand WEALL Hub Everyone in the Wellbeing Economy movement has an intellectual indebtedness to the work of Herman Daly, often cited …
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Ethical and Environmental Standards for Investment in New Zealand
Wise Response has written to the manager of the Financial Markets at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, outlining appropriate settings for Investment with Ethical and Environmental Standards. The letter is available as a PDF here.
What is the Great Simplification?
Wise Response recommends this website with a series of podcasts and episodes exploring themes around degrowth. The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics will span human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment. The goal of the show is to …
New Zealand lawyers to sue Climate Change Commission
Press release: 14 February, 2022 New Zealand has employed “accounting tricks” to create a target for greenhouse gas emissions cuts that looks far more ambitious than it really is.The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) has given the country a “highly insufficient” rating. The net-zero emissions by 2050 target is enshrined in law, but the government’s policies …
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WR Press Release – NZ’s Emissions Reduction Plan falls well short
Press release: 29 November 2021 EMISSIONS REDUCTION PLAN FALLS WELL SHORT ‘The overall emissions budget proposed by the Ministry for the Environment is not nearly ambitious enough,’ says Chair of the Wise Response Society, Prof. Liz Slooten. ‘The IPCC requirement to keep global warming to 1.5ºC by 2030 means a median reduction of 45%. New …
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