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WR submission to Building New Zealand’s Long-term Resilience to Hazards

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Wise Response Submission in response to the “Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Ministry for the Environment. 2025.  Building New Zealand’s Long-term Resilience to Hazards: Draft Long-term Insights Briefing. Wellington: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.” Available here as a PDF. Press Release as a PDF. Press Release: Government’s “Resilience” Plan is …

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New Wise Response Manifesto Released

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  Manifesto of the Wise Response Society The Wise Response Society asserts that profound changes in global priorities and respect for the biosphere are essential for humanity to endure well into the future. Our Current Crisis 1.  Existential Threats: Our current way of living causes unprecedented exploitation and damage to critical resources and the biosphere, …

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Fast-track Bill a fraud being perpetrated on all future generations: Press Release

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PRESS RELEASE: Fast-track Bill a fraud being perpetrated on all future generations. The Fast-track Bill, if passed, would allow three Ministers, unchallenged and unchecked, to approve the immediate extraction and exhaustion of one-off resources. That is not democracy; democracy allows for reasoned discussion and evidenced debate. In short, democracy is about the greater good. Until …

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Journalism – Call for Public Funding, Press Release

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Journalism – Call for public funding Press Release from Wise Response Society Journalism – Call for public funding Press Release from Wise Response Society Journalism – Call for public funding Press Release from Wise Response Society PRESS RELEASE: Journalism should be about ascertaining truths. Ironically, the need to at least break-even financially, has resulted in …

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Wise Response Society Slams Climate Change Commission’s Growth Orientation

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PRESS RELEASE: Wise Response Society Slams Climate Change Commission’s Growth Orientation New Zealand, June 26, 2023 – The Wise Response Society, a coalition of scientists, engineers, planners, artists, and sportspeople, has strongly criticized the Climate Change Commission (CCC) for its continued focus on growth despite the undeniable link between growth and increased emissions. In its …

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WR Petitions for a Public Enquiry into dangerous assumptions about Energy and Growth.

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The Petition has been forwarded to NZ PM Chris Hipkins with a copy to all Labour and Green MPs, co-leaders of Maori Party, Christopher Luxon, David Seymour, Simon Upton, Kim Hill, Jim Mora, and heads of MBIE, MPI, MfE and Productivity Commission. We call on Government to arrange a public enquiry by the Parliamentary Commissioner …

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New Zealand lawyers to sue Climate Change Commission

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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

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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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