Covering all things extreme weather and climate, Ella brings you Under the Weather. This week she covers flash flooding across the world, record cold temperatures and a new record for the global average greenhouse gas concentrations.
For this week's Green Desk, Mitchell spoke to Hinewai Reserve Manager Hugh Wilson about the Hinewai Reserve, a regenerating area of native forest on the Banks Peninsula.
They discuss its carbon credit system which has become increasingly popular with large businesses allowing them to offset unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions.
The system has allowed the reserve to expand and encompass a significant area on the peninsula which has rejuvenated naturally without planting and minimal pest control. Mitchell begins by asking Wilson a little bit about the history of the Reserve and how its arrived at where it is today.
Just how much does the US military pollute the environment? What is its role in climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions? The US military has taken some measures to reduce its impact on the environment and green gas emissions, but some researchers say these measures do little to assuage the military’s bigger effects on climate change. What are these effects and what can be done about them? Maria Armoudian speaks with Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, and Neta C. Crawford.
The government recently announced its agreement with the agricultural sector to have agircultural emissions at a farm level to be priced by 2025. This gives the sector five years to calculate and reduce their own emissions until the government can decide to bring them under Emissions Trading Scheme. Jemima spoke to Green Party co-leader and Climate Minister James Shaw about the agreement and whether agriculture will be left off the hook again under the reformed Emissions Trading Scheme and when it comes to the global work to reduce green-house gas emissions.
Statistics New Zealand has recently put out a report into their updated ocean acidification indicator.
This data has come from a partnership withThe National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, as well as their New Zealand Ocean Acidification Observing Network.
The data provider said there has been a decrease in the our waters PH level, Meaning seawater has undergone more absorption of carbon dioxide.
As the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise due to climate change, more of our water has become effected leading to the risk of losing certain sea life.
I had a chat to Michele Lloyd, the senior manager of Environmental and Agricultural Statistics at Stas NZ about their report.
Donald Trump is threatening to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Reports are suggesting Trump has told multiple sources that he plans to leave the landmark agreement, although the man himself says he will make a decision on America’s future involvement later this week. During the election campaign Trump made it clear that he favored withdrawal, while he has also labeled man-made climate change a hoax. The Paris Agreement is a multilateral agreement adopted in December 2015 and ratified by 147 countries that aims to hold the increase in global temperatures to below two degrees and reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement is the world’s first comprehensive climate agreement. Reporter Sam Smith spoke to environmental politics lecturer at the University of Auckland Julie MacArthur about what this means for the future of the agreement.
We thought we would revisit this story from earlier this year. Mitchell and Hugh discuss the carbon credits system available at Hinewai which has become increasingly popular with large businesses allowing them to offset unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions. The system has allowed the reserve to expand and encompass a significant area on the peninsula which has rejuvenated naturally without planting and minimal pest control. Mitchell begins by asking Hugh a little bit about the history of the Reserve and how its arrived at where its at today.
Transport is a major contributor to New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions. Although light electric vehicles are making waves in reducing these emissions, heavy diesel-powered vehicles are lagging behind. Olivia Holdsworth spoke to journalist Rod Oram about trucking fleets and began by asking about some of the short and long term strategies for CO2 reduction.
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