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Not content with using fraudulent carbon credits to meet New Zealand’s international commitments, the Government has a plan to cook the books to cover up our growing greenhouse gas emissions. The Morgan Foundation’s new report exposes the impacts of this … Read More

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s latest report is as enlightening and robust as ever, as we discussed yesterday. However, in some respects the report is a missed opportunity, mainly because of the Commissioner’s approach of producing stand-alone reports on … Read More

Today Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Jan Wright launched her latest report, Climate change and agriculture: Understanding the biological greenhouse gases. The report aims to provide a fresh starting point for this important debate, which has up until now either … Read More

This week we saw discussion around a report from Ag First economist Phil Journeaux which estimated that land values could fall by $40b across the country as environmental limits (such as limits on water use, nutrient leaching or greenhouse gases) … Read More

In a speech to the Environmental Defence Society Climate Change and Business Conference, the Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett said the Government is looking at measures to encourage more forests to be planted. This is tantamount to an admission of … Read More

We often hear about the impact of the Resource Management Act (RMA) on the economy, but what about its impact on the environment? A new report from the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) answers this question, and the results aren’t pretty. … Read More

Today the NEXT Foundation, Wellington City Council and Greater Wellington Regional Council announce a partnership with the ambitious aim of making Wellington the first predator free capital city in the world. If this can be achieved the city will truly … Read More

Whether irrigation schemes stack up economically usually depends on what you think will happen to the milk price. This Whiteboard Friday looks at the example of the Wairarapa Whiteboard Friday: To Dam or not to Dam? was last modified: September … Read More

The Yellow-Eyed Penguin (hoiho) is found only in the southern reaches of New Zealand – on the South Island, Rakiura and subantarctic islands. We don’t really know how many hoiho there are left, but they are classed as nationally vulnerable. … Read More

The Morgan Foundation is committed to swimmable rivers, because that is what the vast majority of Kiwis say they want. Of course if a local community decides they don’t want that, it is up to them. But communities shouldn’t have … Read More