Where is the Plan to Reduce Emissions?

Gareth MorganEnvironment

With the Paris conference coming up, Gareth is doing a series of Whiteboard Fridays on climate change. We’ve looked at the latest evidence on sea level rise, and how New Zealand’s targets fall short of what is needed to avoid “dangerous” warming.

This week Gareth looks at how difficult it will be to meet our current targets, given our lack of progress since 1990, the harvesting of forests in the 2020’s and lack of a plan going forward.

Where is the Plan to Reduce Emissions? was last modified: December 15th, 2015 by Gareth Morgan
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Gareth Morgan

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Gareth Morgan is a New Zealand economist and commentator on public policy who in previous lives has been in business as an economic consultant, funds manager, and professional company director. He is also a motorcycle adventurer and philanthropist. Gareth and his wife Joanne have a charitable foundation, the Morgan Foundation, which has three main stands of philanthropic endeavour – public interest research, conservation and social investment.