Tag: Zero emissions
UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
Pacific island countries' "relentless" efforts at the UN's specialist agency on shipping, International Maritime...
COP26: New Zealand’s new climate pledge is a step up, but...
ANALYSIS: By Robert McLachlan, Massey University
As the Glasgow climate summits gets underway, New Zealand’s government has announced a revised pledge, with a headline figure...
Climate Change Commission calls on NZ to take ‘immediate, decisive action’
ANALYSIS: By James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission this week released its long-anticipated advice to the...
Labor’s climate policy too little, too late – we must run...
By Will Steffen of the Australian National University
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s announcement on Friday that a Labor government in Australia would adopt a target...
Britain, home of industrial revolution, plans ‘net-zero’ climate change
ANALYSIS: By Megan Darby in London
A world-leading climate action plan or a betrayal of future generations? The UK's net zero emissions plan certainly sorted...
Indigenous rights lawyer tells of ‘early zero-emissions’ lifestyle
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
Pacific Island peoples could be "early reclaimers" of a zero-emissions lifestyle, while also urging the international community to take "extreme"...
