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ECO calls for more funding on climate action and biodiversity protection

1 year ago
Biodiversity, Climate Change
No Comments
ECO has called for greater funding on climate change and biodiversity protection in the upcoming Budget.  ECO’s submission to the Finance and Expenditure Committee on the Government’s Budget Policy Statement…
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IUCN initiative urges governments to invest in nature as part of pandemic recovery

2 years ago
Climate Change, COVID
No Comments
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is calling on governments to channel investments towards nature and nature-based solutions as part of their economic recovery packages to address…
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Climate background and submission guides for the Climate Commission Draft Report

2 years ago
Climate Change, Uncategorized
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Climate Submission GuidesThe deadline for submissions on the Climate Commission first Draft Advice is 28 March.  This is a key time to consider what action the country takes on climate…
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Design Tips for an Eco-Friendly and Low – Carbon Home

5 years ago
Building, Climate Change, Health
No Comments
Uma Campbell considers why we should build more eco-friendly homes and offers some tips on how to go about it.   Everyone dreams of owning their own home. They, of…
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Sarah Thomson legal case on climate change action: can you help?

5 years ago
Climate Change
No Comments
Climate change activist Jeanette Fitzsimons summarises the findings of the legal case brought in May this year to the High Court at Wellington.  Sarah challenged the then National government’s weak…
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ECO Submission Summary: the Conservation and Environment Science Roadmap

6 years ago
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, ECO, Marine, Science
No Comments
The Department of Conservation and Ministry for the Environment are working together to identify the areas of scientific knowledge which will be required by government over the next 20 years…
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Climate Change and Mitigation  –  Low Carbon Auckland

7 years ago
Climate Change
No Comments
Frances Palmer considers how Auckland can move to a lower carbon future The 2015 Climate conference in Paris generated international pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to limit global…
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Key evils of neoliberal free market economics: climate disruption, overshoot and collapse, increasing homelessness

7 years ago
Climate Change
No Comments
Opinion piece by George Preddy. George Preddey is a former atmospheric physicist (DSIR), futurist (CFF), tertiary teacher (VUW), disaster manager (MoCD), chief adviser (MoE), and international tertiary education consultant (ADB, ILO,…
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Teaching kids about climate change

7 years ago
Climate Change
No Comments
Uma Campbell writes about how and why we must teach our children, even at a young age, about climate change:   Learning about the importance of climate change is important…
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Future security priorities – military hardware or climate mitigation?

7 years ago
Climate Change
No Comments
Frances Palmer from Auckland reflects on our current priorities and how little understanding there is of where the real threats are: No military threats to our security were cited to…
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What’s next for food prices?

7 years ago
Biodiversity, Climate Change
No Comments
In 2011, Time magazine ran an article predicting continued food price spikes as a result of rising population, increasing fuel costs and the increasing scarcity of water. ECO asked a…
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Climate Change news

7 years ago
Climate Change, ECO, Marine, Science
No Comments
As ECO prepares for its annual conference in August, themed around climate change and water, we background some recent news stories on climate change issues. Arctic sea ice falls to…
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New Zealand is trending towards net deforestation

7 years ago
Climate Change, Forestry
1 Comment
A new report from Pure Advantage says that we are not planting enough trees here in New Zealand. They quote Environment Ministry figures which show that since 2008 our rate…
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Geology – returning to first principles

7 years ago
Climate Change, Science
1 Comment
Geologist Richie Miller says it’s time to put down the drill and return to geology’s founding principles. Richie Miller volunteers for ECO in his spare time. The word ‘Geology’ is…
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Carbon levels unprecedented in over 56 million years

7 years ago
Climate Change, Science
No Comments
The ice in the Arctic has set a new wintertime low for the second year in a row, at 1.12 million sq km lower than the average for 1980 to…
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Is a beautiful, clean future within our grasp now?

7 years ago
Climate Change
No Comments
Chris Livesey reflects on the Paris Climate Summit (COP 21) and what has been achieved.   What does the agreement mean for New Zealand, and there is now real hope…
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Tell Fonterra To Stop Building New Coal Boilers

7 years ago
Climate Change
3 Comments
Despite New Zealand’s need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Fonterra is planning to burn more coal. Tim Jones from Coal Action Network Aotearoa asks for your help to stop them.…
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Reflections on dairying from the ECO Conference on Freshwater

8 years ago
Climate Change, Freshwater
No Comments
The problem with our waterways Caroline Glassberg-Powell reflects on how dairy intensification is causing New Zealand rivers to become the most polluted in the world. There were many themes at…
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No Law is Just Law if it doesn’t Serve the Common Good

8 years ago
Climate Change, Freshwater, Oceania
No Comments
Symposium on Law, Responsibility and Governance   No Law is Just Law if it doesn’t Serve the Common Good (Kapua Sproat) Aotearoa NZ, November 2014.  Written by Betsan Martin  …
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