West Papuan campaigners want a ‘green state’. Could it help the planet?
Madang, West Papua. Photo by Jonathan E. Shaw, Flickr (CC BY_NC 2.0) By Ben Wray OPINION: Independence activists want to combine the best parts of liberal democracy with indigenous traditions. Due to the strength of their diverse indigenous...
Why is the UN calling for a gendered approach to climate – and how does Aotearoa stack up?
Photo by UN Women Gallery , licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 By Bex Ansell and Izzy Renton On November 14th, 2022, COP27 included the conference’s first-ever day devoted to gender. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, laid out three things the UN Climate...
How does COP27’s loss and damage deal really look to the Global South?
By Oxfam East Africa – Kuay Makuach, farmer, Lankien, South Sudan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Amelia Womack Warning: This article contains images of dead animals that some readers may find distressing After two weeks of fractious discussions, at the very...
From farming to fermentation: Could New Zealand ‘brew up’ new foods to reduce agricultural emissions?
Photo by Delphine Ducaruge on Unsplash Ian Mason, University of Canterbury New Zealand agriculture contributed 50% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2020, an unusually high proportion by world standards. Dairy farming was responsible for about half...
COP27: Breakthrough? Or an inadequate response to the climate crisis?
IAEA Imagebank Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland For 30 years, developing nations have fought to establish an international fund to pay for the “loss and damage” they suffer as a result of climate change. As the COP27 climate summit in Egypt wrapped up over...
COP27: Why can rich countries no longer ignore calls to pay the developing world for climate havoc?
An aerial view of Pakistani flood survivors isolated on a road surrounded by water. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jason Bushong – https://www.dvidshub.net/image/319323 Lisa Vanhala, UCL Payments from high-emitting countries to mitigate the harm that climate...
What role can New Zealand play to combat climate change?
By Kevin Trenberth Climate change is a global problem requiring a global solution, but individual nations like New Zealand can play a role and must do so, writes Kevin Trenberth. The climate is changing and human activities are the cause: this is confirmed in the...
What are the problems with New Zealand’s climate strategy?
By Anne Salmond Dame Anne Salmond lays out the fundamental problems with this country’s strategy to use pine forests and overseas offsets to help wish away our climate emissions. New Zealand’s strategy for responding to climate change is fundamentally flawed....
What legal systems are really necessary to fix climate change? 🔊
Climate Change is an existential threat that demands bold action and a transformation of how humanity uses its resources. Concepts like “net zero” and “carbon offset” have done little toward decreasing the amount of greenhouse gases we emit into the atmosphere. Is the...Subscribe by Email
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