Topics tagged with 'Greenhouse Effect'

Canberra attacks Europe's carbon plans
16 Jul 2021
Australia's ruling Coalition lashed out yesterday at the European Union's proposed carbon border tariff as a new climate plan from Brussels added to growing international pressure on Canberra to do more to tackle climate change.

'Greta Thunberg Effect' belies challenges for autistic community in going green
16 Jul 2021
Autistic people need extra help in going green say researchers behind a new study which argues for a more inclusive environmental agenda.

EU unveils sweeping climate change plan
15 Jul 2021
The European Union has announced a raft of climate change proposals aimed at pushing it towards its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

Parliament investigating cryptocurrencies' environmental impact
14 Jul 2021
Bitcoin consumes significantly more electricity each year than New Zealand, leading many environmentalists to say the cryptocurrency is unsustainable. Now the New Zealand Parliament is investigating.

Europe's addiction to climate subsidies risks trade war
13 Jul 2021
Former EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard and former WTO director-general Pascal Lamy are warning that the addiction of some of Europe's industries to climate subsidies risks sparking a trade war.

Climate change will affect productivity
13 Jul 2021
A new study has predicted that climate change will significantly affect people’s ability to work effectively if the goals of the UN Paris Agreement are not met.

Billions at risk of malaria if global heating continues
12 Jul 2021
More than 8 billion people could be at risk of malaria and dengue fever by 2080 if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise unabated, a new study says.

NZ emissions continue to climb
9 Jul 2021
New Zealand’s emissions have continued their upward trend according to data released by Stats NZ yesterday.

Southland can be net zero and economically successful: report
9 Jul 2021
Media Release - Southland has the potential to both meet the New Zealand Government’s ‘net zero’ emissions target by 2050 and retain a positive economic position, a new report shows.

10 YEARS AGO...
8 Jul 2021
Ten years ago, Australian scientists were warning the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires were likely to drive climate change.

Sami object to geoengineering plans
8 Jul 2021
The Sami people of Northern Sweden say blocking out the sun with reflective particles to cool the earth is the kind of thinking that produced the climate crisis in the first place

Hottest June on record for North America
8 Jul 2021
North America witnessed its hottest June on record battered by a deadly heatwave searing parts of the region, according to the European Union’s climate monitoring service.

French court orders government to act on climate
7 Jul 2021
France’s top administrative court has ordered the government to take “all necessary additional steps” within the next nine months to enable it to reach its climate crisis targets or face possible sanctions, including substantial fines.

Powerful Chinese agency put in charge of climate change
7 Jul 2021
China’s top economic planning body has been put in charge of devising a plan for the world’s biggest polluter to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

EU to funnel hundreds of billions to sustainable finance
7 Jul 2021
The European Union says it will harness banks and markets to funnel hundreds of billions of euros annually into sustainable investments and create the first “climate-neutral continent” by 2050.

Te Ao Maori inspires Netflix nature documentary
6 Jul 2021
The scientists behind a groundbreaking new book and Netflix documentary credit their time in New Zealand with an “awakening” on the importance of indigenous knowledge in preventing environmental catastrophe

Warmest June on record
6 Jul 2021
Winter got off to a very warm start in New Zealand – it was the country’s warmest June on record.

Rebound in gas demand threatens international climate targets: IEA
6 Jul 2021
A rebound in global gas demand to 2024 following a record fall last year is poised to knock the world off track for a climate goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.

Climate change warnings in 1960s ignored
6 Jul 2021
The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom.

Call for free public transport in capital to fight climate change
6 Jul 2021
Media Release - The Victoria University Students Association has come together with 36 local community groups and has launched a petition calling on the government to fund a trial of free public transport for Community Service Card holders and students in the Greater Wellington region.

Data reveals alarming increase in greenhouse gases
5 Jul 2021
More greenhouse gases were produced in 2018 than any previous year, despite more than 20 countries reducing their carbon emissions since 2000, research from UNSW Sydney and their collaborators has shown.

Heatwave deaths could skyrocket in future
5 Jul 2021
Some scientists see a day when heat-related deaths may match those of all infectious diseases.

Lawyers file court proceeding against Climate Change Commission
2 Jul 2021
Lawyers for Climate Action NZ (LCANZI) today filed High Court proceedings seeking judicial review of the Climate Change Commission’s advice to the Minister for Climate Change.

Australia bottom of the climate change pack
2 Jul 2021
Australia has been ranked dead last for climate action in the latest Sustainable Development Report, which assesses the progress of countries towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Bangladesh ditches coal-fired power plant plans
2 Jul 2021
Bangladesh has cancelled plans to build 10 coal-fired power plants, a government official said on Monday, amid rising costs for the fuel and increasing calls from activists to base more of the nation's power on renewable energy.

‘Hot air’ carbon offset scheme undermines Colombia’s climate goal
1 Jul 2021
Colombia stands to lose $62m in carbon tax revenue and underperform its emissions targets due to flawed forest carbon credit projects, investigators claim.

Fact check: Is China the main climate change culprit?
1 Jul 2021
China currently releases more carbon emissions than any other country — leading many to believe it bears the greatest responsibility for climate change. However, the situation is more complex than it seems.

US heatwave is climate change: scientists
30 Jun 2021
Is climate change amping up the US Pacific Northwest heat wave? Yes — and it’s time to stop asking.

An indigenous leader fighting climate change
30 Jun 2021
Indigenous land defender Nemonte Nenquimo discusses how climate change has altered the Amazon, the plant medicines used to help fight COVID-19, and the ancestral knowledge passed down by her elders.

No plans for halogen ban
29 Jun 2021
The Government has no plans to follow Britain, The EU and Australia’s lead in banning halogen lightbulbs.

EU approves landmark climate law
29 Jun 2021
European Union countries yesterday gave the final seal of approval to a law to make the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions targets legally binding, as EU policymakers prepare a huge new package of policies to fight climate change.

Climate change could shrink global economy by 10%
29 Jun 2021
The global economy could lose 10% of its total economic value by 2050 due to climate change, according to new research.

Wave of climate change litigation predicted
29 Jun 2021
Businesses could soon be facing a fresh wave of legal action holding them to account for their greenhouse gas emissions, owing to advances in climate science, experts have warned.

Bolsonaro accused of ecocide
28 Jun 2021
Indigenous leaders and human rights groups in Brazil want President Jair Bolsonaro prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

Northern Ireland's beef farmers oppose net zero target
25 Jun 2021
Northern Ireland's red meat sector is opposing moves towards a net-zero emissions target of 2045.

Some towns and communities won’t survive climate change: Andrew Little
23 Jun 2021
Health Minister Andrew told a public health conference in Wellington yesterday that some towns and communities won't survive the effects of climate change.

Unesco: Great Barrier Reef 'in danger'
23 Jun 2021
Australia's government has lashed out after a United Nations report claimed it had not done enough to protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change.

Fighting nature loss benefits climate: IPCC
22 Jun 2021
A new IPCC report shows the importance of addressing nature loss as part of the fight against climate change.

Climate change threatens future of coffee
22 Jun 2021
Rising global temperatures and weather patterns that are increasingly extreme and unpredictable are threatening the livelihoods of coffee farmers around the world, a new report warns.

Universities’ GHG emissions plummet due to Covid
21 Jun 2021
With carbon emissions from academic travel plummeting by close to 90 per cent, New Zealand universities are looking at how they can lock-in some of those reductions in a post-Covid world.

Billions of dollars of benefits overlooked by ClimCom
21 Jun 2021
The Climate Change Commission has failed to fully take into account billions of dollars in potential savings from climate change mitigation, according to some of Zealand's leading epidemiologists.

Earth's energy out of balance
21 Jun 2021
NASA researchers have found that Earth’s energy imbalance approximately doubled during the 14-year period from 2005 to 2019.

New technology won't save us
21 Jun 2021
Existing plans to limit global warming rely too much on “increasingly unrealistic assumptions” that societies will be able to remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, a new study has found.

Lights, camera, climate
21 Jun 2021
Why are global-warming blockbusters so rare? And is Hollywood shaping how we see climate change?

Pests a major contributor to climate change: Forest & Bird
18 Jun 2021
THE West Coast’s kamahi-podocarp forests are bleeding 3.4 million tonnes of stored carbon annually because of browsing deer, goats, chamois and possums, a Forest and Bird Report, released today, reveals.

10 YEARS AGO...
18 Jun 2021
Ten years ago, the FAO was predicting a worldwide water shortage leading to a drop in food supplies due to climate change.

Do sport and climate change mix?
17 Jun 2021
The All Black’s current sponsor, AIG, and the company tipped to replace it, INEOS, are both under fire for their climate change records.

10 YEARS AGO...
17 Jun 2021
Ten years ago, a UN report said that fast action to curb soot would improve human health, generate higher crop gains, and reduce climate change.

Combating fake climate news with a bot
17 Jun 2021
Two New York City-based artist-engineers have created a bot to highlight real news about climate change in a creative response to algorithm-driven social media newsfeeds that all too often prioritise fake news.

Climate change a Pacific reality
16 Jun 2021
In the 1960s and ‘70s Pago Pago in American Samoa averaged 85 cool nights, that’s nights under 23c, per year, now they have just four. The number of days hotter than 32c has gone from nine to about 22.