Covering Climate Now: Warming will hit endemic species hardest
19 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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New Zealand s endangered chesterfield skink is among species most threatened by climate change and its impacts. Photo / Sabine Bernert
New Zealand s endangered chesterfield skink is among species most threatened by climate change and its impacts. Photo / Sabine Bernert
Thousands of plants and animals unique to the world s most stunning places could face extinction if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, a new study finds.
But while New Zealand has the highest proportion of endemic species of any country - half of those in our marine environment, along with more than 80 per cent of native and freshwater species, are found nowhere else - the country may not fare as badly as places closer to the equator.
Sideswipe: April 19: Bread in captivity
18 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Leave scam A Taiwanese man came up with an ingenious way of getting extended paid leave from work: he got married four times and divorced three times in just 37 days. According to Taiwanese law, a person has the right to eight days paid work leave when they get married, which is exactly what one unnamed clerk received when he got married last year. After that, it s back to work but the hero of our story had prepared for this in advance. On the last day of his eight-day leave, the man divorced his wife, only to marry her again the next day and ask for another paid leave, to which he felt he was entitled to, by law. He went on to marry the same woman four times, and divorce her three times in 37 days, for a total of 32 days of paid leave.
Market close: NZ sharemarket falls nearly 1% ahead of ETFS activity
15 Apr, 2021 05:38 AM
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After some steady rises over the past two weeks, both Contact and Meridian fell. Photo / Supplied
After some steady rises over the past two weeks, both Contact and Meridian fell. Photo / Supplied
NZ Herald
By: Graham Skellern
The New Zealand sharemarket was a little edgy and fell nearly 1 per cent as it awaited Friday s unique exchange traded funds activity in the leading energy stocks, Contact and Meridian. The S&P/NZX 50 Index closed at 12,636.55, down 114.83 points or 0.9 per cent on solid volume of 64.6 million share transactions worth $219.62 million. The index fell from an early morning burst that reached 12,770.83 points.
Bookie wonderland: How book club became the new nightclub
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Trending, Lifestyle and Entertainment reporter, NZ Herald Books have always had the unique ability to whisk us away to other worlds - whether we re sitting in a quiet library, on holiday surrounded by beachgoers, curled up on the couch at home, or waiting for a bus.
But this especially hit home over the past year when we were all stuck inside for days on end - our books provided the perfect form of escapism.
Now as life gets somewhat back to normal, they re providing a sense of community in the form of the humble book club.
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Press Release - Boston, London, Nice, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, April 13, 2021
Scientific Beta launches unique series of pure climate indices that translates companies climate performance and alignment engagement into portfolio decisions
The Climate Impact Consistent Indices (CICI) allow investors to promote real-world emissions reductions
Scientific Beta has announced the launch of a unique series of Climate Impact Consistent Indices (CICI) that make investment decisions and engagement practices consistent in order to maximise their impact.
The CICI offering is the only pure climate index offering on the market. Unlike traditional climate indices and benchmarks, which combine financial and climate criteria, either in the form of tilts applied to reference cap weights, or of carbon intensity score optimisation under tracking error constraints, the CIC indices make the weights of stocks depend solely on their climate performance. This strong methodological choice provides the