We’re building harder, hotter cities: Should we instead protect and grow urban green spaces?
Housing intensification in Hamilton. PCE, CC BY-SA Timothy Welch, University of Auckland Recent extreme weather events have provided a foretaste of how supercharged storms might threaten our future. So the release today of a new report from the Parliamentary...
What do you mean we are running out of sand?
Photo by YoTuT, licensed under CC BY 2.0. By Annalise O’Sullivan-Moffat Although the importance of water as a resource is well accepted, fewer people know that sand is the second most consumed resource globally. Why is sand so important? Sand is a...
What would a Green Recovery from COVID-19 look like for Aotearoa New Zealand?
by Cormac Jelicich In 2020, two crises coincided. First, the COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented socioeconomic harm, triggering a devastating health crisis that engendered the steepest recession since the Great Depression. Second, the myriad of ecological...
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...
Why do social ties matter to climate politics?
“Traffic Jam. New Zealand style.” by Bernard Spragg is marked with CC0 1.0 Last month, New Zealand was recognised internationally for being the first country planning to charge farmers for agricultural emissions. Meanwhile New Zealand’s farmers...
Why won’t carbon farming pine trees truly help mitigate climate change?
By Anne Salmond It’s time for Labour and the Greens to rescue their climate consciences and stop plans to plant vast, environmentally risky pine forests as a way of offsetting our greenhouse gas emissions. In New Zealand, we have a Labour-Green government at...
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...
With inflation on the rise, what can be done to support low-income families?
By Murat Ungor Inflation is raising prices and reducing real wages – what should be done to support NZ’s low-income households? There is no doubt life is becoming much more expensive in New Zealand as inflation hits a three-decade high, influenced by both domestic and...
What is the path out of our housing crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand? ▶
Ending New Zealand’s Housing Crisis is a film by Harry Booth, Haidon Evans and Jade Hunter. The film was produced as part of a Stage 3 COMMs class Documentary and Social Change (2021) taught by Annie Goldson at the University of Auckland. Aotearoa New Zealand is...Subscribe by Email
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