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The highest elevation on Tarawa atoll, home to more than half of the population of Kiribati, is three metres above sea level.
More than 100 developing countries have put out a call for increased ambition on climate change from rich nations, including New Zealand, Marc Daalder reports. New Zealand is named as one of the nations which needs to pledge to steeper emissions cuts, in a new five-point plan for climate change backed by more than half of the world s countries. The document, released by a number of non-government organisations from the global South, lays out five pleas for rich nations and priorities ahead of the global COP26 climate summit in November. On at least two of these measures, New Zealand is falling short.
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Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 11:56 am
While
the nation paused last Friday to share the existential
horror of farmers and tradies maybe having to pay a little
more in future for a new emissions-emitting Toyota Hilux
from Japan… The real losers in this “ute tax” scenario
will continue to be everyone else. Presumably, we will all
have to pick up the tab if the rural sector refuses to adapt
to climate change or reduce its waterways pollution, unless
the changes required can be made entirely cost free, for
them at least.
But enough of that. Lets talk about
utes and SUVs instead. As the Climate Change Commission