The Carbon Budget Deficit
Saturday, September 8, 2012
A carbon budget is essential to planning for serious emission reductions. It details the expected carbon flows and associated financial commitments for a country.
Read The Carbon Budget Deficit.
GM Free Food Good Business for NZ Inc
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
In the sixteen years since GM crops started growing in the US, New Zealand has remained a GM free food producer. Not because of red tape, nor because New Zealanders …
GM Food Production: Facts and Figures
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
This document has key facts and figures about global GM food production, and why New Zealand does not currently grow GM crops.
Read GM Food Production Facts and Figures 2012.
ETS Changes to Eternal Transition Scheme
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The total cost to taxpayers of changes to the ETS is at least $1.3 billion, based on the $25 per tonne carbon price the government currently uses to assess …
EPA Makes First Real Move on Nanomaterials
Thursday, July 5, 2012
In a critical first step to regulating nanomaterials, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made it compulsory to label for nanoscale ingredients in cosmetics.
The use of nanomaterials has been …
Nanomaterials—are we looking at the next asbestos?
Friday, June 1, 2012
At the annual Fire Department Instructor Conference in Indianapolis this year, a new topic was on the agenda: risks to firefighters from engineered nanomaterials.
The prompt was a sports store …
Johnson & Johnson Opposes Labelling Nanocosmetics – Council response
Friday, May 18, 2012
During the 2012 review of New Zealand’s cosmetics regulations, global personal care products company Johnson and Johnson opposed labelling of nanocosmetic ingredients. The company requested a further opportunity to …
GM Crops Held Back by Lack of Grower Support, Not the Law
Thursday, April 12, 2012
GM crops are not in New Zealand fields because developers cannot get sufficient support from food producers and consumers, not because the law is holding them back, a Sustainability …
Citizens’ Arrest: Accounting for the Arrested Development of GM Foods
Thursday, April 12, 2012
GM crops are not in New Zealand fields because developers cannot get sufficient support from food producers and consumers, not because the law is holding them back.
State-funded developers have …
