Reimagining Fuels Resilience, and How To Get It
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
New Zealand is more exposed to fuel supply disruption than comparable countries and urgently needs a resilience plan, yet proposed legislation just tinkers with fuel stocks.
Cyclone Gabrielle has left …
An Oil Supply Crisis Could Trigger a Sovereignty Crisis for NZ
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
If middle east oil flows were seriously disrupted, the multibillion dollar costs and geopolitical impacts would hit New Zealand harder than most other OECD countries. Yet we are less …
What’s at Risk if GMO Regulation Goes Light?
Monday, October 7, 2024
New Zealand’s unusual degree of exposure to the economic risks posed by GMOs is the first signal that well founded regulation of their outdoor use is needed. GMOs are …
GMO Conversation Needs Good Analysis
Saturday, April 1, 2023
The conversation on GMOs MPI has proposed via a food sector planning process needs to be grounded in good analysis.
The draft Food and Beverage Sector Transformation Plan gives undue …
Open Source Detection Test for First Gene Edited Crop
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Today’s release of an open source test for detecting the first “gene edited” crop is a game changer.
It refutes claims by GMO developers suggesting that new GM foods are …
‘Un-Terminating’ the Smelter, and Unlocking a Manapouri New Deal
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Rio Tinto’s latest threat to close its smelter came with the news that it had terminated its power supply contract – something that had “never been done before”.
However the …
A New Carbon Accounting Unit for Permanent Sequestration
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The creation of a new unit of carbon currency to recognise the permanent sequestration of greenhouse gases would provide a clear way for exporters to meet international standards for …
Market Pressures for Pastoral Products to go Carbon Neutral
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Pastoral agriculture faces converging challenges that collectively make sharp rises in environmental standards inevitable.
These pressures are combining to push market expectations towards animal protein products being fully carbon …
Twenty-two years on, GM foods still a story of commodity crops and the Americas
Monday, December 17, 2018
Twenty two years after GM cropping began to take off in the US, GM agriculture remains a story of just four commodity crops – soy, maize, canola and cotton …
