Carbon Budgeting – Integrated Planning for Climate Action
A carbon budgeting process is essential to securing serious emission reductions. It takes targets, assesses the options, and describes an overall plan for achieving those outcomes.
The Sustainability Council …
GM Food Production Still a Story of the Americas
GM agriculture today is overwhelmingly just four commodity crops: soy, maize, canola and cotton account for 99%. And 97% of the GM food crops produced in 2016 were grown …
Zero Tolerance, Billion Dollar Losses
Growing GMOs before they have been approved for use in export markets continues to result in punishing consequences.
Most of New Zealand’s key trading partners have zero tolerance …
Five Reasons NZ Should Not Deregulate New Genetic Engineering Techniques
Developers want the Government to relax New Zealand’s laws on genetic modification (GM) to allow a new generation of genetic engineering techniques to escape regulation.
They hope that …
The Environment a Significant Casualty Under TPPA
Close scrutiny of the final TPPA text reveals that its impact on the environment is even worse than had been expected from leaked drafts.
A new paper, prepared by …
Government’s Move Keeps New GMOs Regulated
The government’s decision to keep all new techniques for engineering genes under regulation is welcomed by the Sustainability Council.
Last year, the Council won a High Court ruling that …
GM Food Production Remains an American Inc Affair
GM food production continues to be a story of the Americas. In 2014, 99% of all GM food grown in 2014 was produced on the American continent …
NZ’s Climate Change Targets, Projections and Liabilities
New Zealand plans to meet existing commitments to reduce emissions largely through creative carbon accounting. It will make a third emissions pledge in 2015 and the Treasury advises the …
Pressure Mounting on NZ for Real Emissions Reductions
After many years focused on creative accounting, New Zealand is facing pressure to deliver emission reduction results.
Things are different partly because the two biggest carbon polluters, the US and …
