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Ten years ago

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Wednesday - Ten years ago, British politicians signed a ground-breaking agreement on climate change, pledging to work together on "one of the most serious threats facing the world today".

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Tuesday - Ten years ago, energy efficiency rules in California failed to cut energy consumption, suggesting that direct action is less effective than carbon pricing in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Monday - Ten years ago, New Zealand universities were ranked among the worst in the world when it came to divesting from fossil fuels.

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31 Jan 25 - Ten years ago, the Government said it would work with Maori on two big climate change and carbon pricing decisions - a new emissions reduction target and a review of the Emissions Trading Scheme.

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30 Jan 25 - Ten years ago, new analysis showed policy procrastination over climate change was costing Australia money.

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29 Jan 25 - Ten years ago, with petrol prices at their lowest since 2010, energy expert Professor Ralph Sims warned cheap fuel prices would do little to help New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions profile.

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28 Jan 25 - Ten years ago, Australian businesses were sure the country would return to an emissions trading scheme or a carbon tax by 2020, and climate and environmental economist Frank Jotzo believed they could be right.


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27 Jan 25 - Ten years ago, Morgan Foundation chief Geoff Simmons said New Zealand businesses are failing to read the warnings about investing in fossil fuels, says

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24 Jan 25 - Ten years ago, Bill and Melinda Gates claimed Africa would be able to feed itself over the following 15 years, helped by other breakthroughs in health, mobile banking and education.

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23 Jan 25 - Ten years ago, tourists from across the world were increasingly demanding more environmentally sustainable holidays.

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19 Dec 24 - Ten years ago, climate scientists were bracing themselves to deal with fact-free sermons from climate deniers at Christmas and New Year gatherings.

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18 Dec 24 - Ten years ago, Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions were going up and up – and were set to rise by more than 50 per cent over 1990 levels by 2020.

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17 Dec 24 - Ten years ago, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium and Sweden issued a joint call to ban the microplastics used in detergents and cosmetics, saying the measure will protect marine life – and seafood –...

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16 Dec 24 - Ten years ago, scientists were predicting that lethal heat waves in Europe, and ice storms and big freezes across the globe, could become regular events if greenhouse gas emissions were not...

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13 Dec 24 - Ten years ago, the administration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo banned hydraulic fracturing in the state, citing public health concerns.

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12 Dec 24 - Ten years ago, greenhouse gas emissions from energy were up as gas and oil burnt for transport and heating cancelled out gains from renewable electricity production.

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11 Dec 24 - Ten years ago, the launch of a new coalition spearheaded by the United Nations Environment Programme focused on boosting renewable energy usage around the world.

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10 Dec 24 - Ten years ago, while the political spotlight focused on the world’s two biggest polluters − China and the US − in the run-up to the Lima climate talks, pressure was mounting on India to...

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9 Dec 24 - Ten years ago, a sustainable energy expert said the government was using smoke and mirrors to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target instead of making genuine moves to cut emissions.


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