Newsroom
Swiss climate ruling full of holes
Once upon a time, it was the role of parliaments to make laws, governments to execute them, and the role of courts to uphold them.
Climate change
The Australian
Absurd: New Zealand courts can now decide on climate change
The World Justice Project ranks New Zealand 7th out of 142 countries on its ‘Rule of Law Index’, narrowly ahead of Australia’s 13th place.
The Australian
When politicians get caught in economics denialism
When politicians talk nonsense about economics, it often goes unnoticed.
Insights
Winning the Government’s lottery
If only the Government’s public relations staff were as good as Lotto New Zealand’s.
Newsroom
Taxonomic vandalism, EU-style
When the EU embarked on developing its own taxonomy, maybe it should have consulted with a few biologists.
The New Zealand Herald
The ‘Green Paradox’ in Government’s CentrePort investment
It is much easier to channel public money to some preferred emitters and then post pictures of electric vehicles on Twitter.
The New Zealand Herald
The problem with Climate Commission chair Rod Carr’s economic argument
The problem with economics is that it often uses a language that non-economists do not speak.
Newsroom
Learn from the European ETS experience
Whether to cut emissions is a moral question.
Insights
Transparency, please
An organisation confident in its recommendations should not fear transparency about its modelling.
Insights
When cutting emissions cuts no ice
If we care for effective emissions reductions, we need to understand how the ETS works.