TEN YEARS AGO…

Friday - Ten years ago, the launch of Future Super, which claimed to be the first super fund in Australia to exclude fossil fuels, had drawn significant attention.

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Thursday - Ten years ago, the Labour Government announced a policy to put $100 million a year into clean-tech companies.

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Wednesday - Ten years ago, there was a basic divide over taking climate action in New Zealand.

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Tuesday - Ten years ago, clean-tech start-ups were showing interest in a new crowd-funding platform for business.

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9 Sep 24 - Ten years ago, it was thought farmers could have access to low-methane-emitting sheep as early as 2016.

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6 Sep 24 - Ten years ago, a leading local carbon trader said New Zealand should be knocking on China’s door if it wanted to put a national emissions trading scheme in place by 2016.

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5 Sep 24 - Ten years ago, renewable energy sectors joined forces to promote New Zealand’s clean-energy credentials as a new international industry.

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4 Sep 24 - Ten years ago, all members of the Horizon’s Regional Council that worked on the controversial One Plan had left amid allegations of political interference.

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3 Sep 24 - Ten years ago, New Zealand had the lowest carbon prices in the world, according to the World Bank.

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2 Sep 24 - Ten years ago, the government locked horns with one of New Zealand’s leading business people over climate change and the new economy.

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30 Aug 24 - Ten years ago, a report said New Zealanders might be slow at adopting alternative electricity generation, but alternatives did threaten the existing centralised model.

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29 Aug 24 - Ten years ago, forest owners welcomed the reinstatement of the Afforestation Grant Scheme – but said that lifting carbon prices would reverse deforestation overnight.

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28 Aug 24 - Ten years ago, public support for renewable energies across the world continued to grow, particularly in more advanced economies.

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27 Aug 24 - Ten years ago, New Zealand First supported an iwi leaders’ bid to raise carbon prices.

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26 Aug 24 - Ten years ago, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist said negotiating a global agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol would be critical to the survival of society

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23 Aug 24 - Ten years ago, the UN expected more than 300 initiatives to be announced at a major world conference in Samoa aimed at fostering partnerships with small island developing states.

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22 Aug 24 - Ten years ago, five scientists hosted a public discussion on what the Government’s National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management meant for the Waikato region.

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21 Aug 24 - Ten years ago, the IPCC under-estimated the impact the melting Antarctic ice sheet would have on global sea-level rise.

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20 Aug 24 - Ten years ago, some of New Zealand’s biggest companies were working out how they could use their purchasing power to drive the new economy.

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