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.
Climate Change
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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Open letter – The Most Important Mesage for NZ to Deliver at COP-26
Wise Response has sent an open letter to the Rt Hon Prime Minister Ardern and the Hon James Shaw, Minister of Climate Change. The letter is available as a PDF here and is reproduced below. 10 October 2021 Rt Hon Prime Minister Ardern and the Hon James Shaw, Minister of Climate Change ParliamentWellington, 6160 Dear …
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Workshop – Are there biophysical limits to growth?
Slides and Video of the Worshop are available now: Recording of the zoom meeting is available from Victoria University here, or on Youtube here. The Speakers slides are available here: Associate Professor Simon Michaux (Geology) – pdf. Professor Steve Keen (Economics) – powerpoint. Professor Tim Jackson (Economics) – pdf Professor Susan …
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Seniors Climate Action Network Website Launched
Seniors Climate Action Network (SCAN) based in Dunedin, New Zealand have launched their new website with great resources around Issues of Sustainability https://www.issuesofsustainability.org The website incorporates a work-in-progress web publication “Issues of Sustainability” which will be added to and revised over time. SCAN’s mission statement is to raise awareness of climate change and to work …
WR Press Release re IPCC 6th Report
Patrons: Sir Alan Mark, KNZM, FRSNZ. Sir Geoffrey Palmer, KCMG, AC, QC, PC. Press release 10 August 2021 IPCC 6 ‘The release of the sixth assessment report by the IPCC signals an end to the era of good intentions about climate change,’ says co-chair of Wise Response, Jim Salinger. ‘The definitive results from this meta-study …
A Better Future for Aotearoa – NZ Science Festival – Audio
Solving the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis – at the same time! The discussion about creative solutions to the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis and other problems caused by economic growth is available to listen to here. The speakers include American journalist and educator Richard Heinberg, who has written extensively on energy, economic, and …
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Lawyers challenge New Zealand’s proposed emissions budgets as inconsistent with the 1.5℃ goal.
New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission is facing its first legal hurdle, as a group of 300 climate-concerned lawyers seek judicial review of the processes it used to calculate carbon budgets in its recently released advice to government. Carbon budgets are a cornerstone of New Zealand’s climate change response under the Zero Carbon Act and lie …
