Carbon Zero Act News Today

New Zealand's National Party leader downplayed on Wednesday the possibility that a right-wing political ally would refuse to support his government should his party win next month's election as expected. New Zealand is due to elect a new government on Oct. 14, and the centre-right National Party is currently leading the polls but is unlikely to be able to govern without the support of at least one smaller party. Historically, it has joined forces with the right-wing ACT party, howeve...

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The Green Party has announced Mike Davidson (Ngāi Tahu) as its candidate for Ilam. Mike is a former Christchurch City Councillor having served for 6 years from 2016 to 2022. During this time he was the chairperson for Council's Urban Development ...

Kelly Hodel/Stuff Councillors met in Thames to consider their options on the climate change declaration before it goes out for public consultation. A Waikato council has been backed into a corner by newly elected councillors pushing for the mayor to reconsider signing a climate change declaration. In 2019, Thames Coromandel District Council and mayor Sandra Goudie voted against signing the Local Government Leaders’ Climate Change Declaration. It’s a decision that’s since cost thousands...

As strategy and communications general manager Sean Hickey pointed out in his report, in the 2019/2020 year the organisation generated 10,438 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (excluding biogenic methane) – a reduction of 4.5 per cent. While this was a good drop and in line with the desired progress towards achieving the 2050 target, a good portion of that reduction was attributable to the first Covid-19 lockdown, when many council services went into an enforced hiatus. Councillors, inclu...

But don’t fret. Yay? This. Is. Meaningless! If you think being carbon neutral by 2050 is the solution, you are the fucking problem! We are going through a temperature rising event globally right now DESPITE this being the La Nina cycle, which means when it crosses into the El Nino we are facing real dangers… “2020 has, unfortunately, been yet another extraordinary year for our climate,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas, urging more efforts to curb the emissions. Gre...

You do realise that man has managed to live through far far worse scenarios than you’re painting? Around ten thousand years ago the sea levels were 400 ft lower than they are now, and yet we’re still here? How can that be? What did mankind do? They simply moved. Islands have come and disappeared all through history, big deal. Remember the original Australians walked to Australia, they didn’t need boats. And I won’t even start on the Youngest Toba, which may have reduced the ...