Climate Change Minister James Shaw joins Reuben again this week to discuss the Declaration for Ambition on climate change signed by 23 nations, including New Zealand, promising to boost climate targets by 2020 and calling on other nations to follow suit. They also talk about the country wide roadshow set up by the Ministry for the Environment to discuss the Zero Carbon BIll with the public and to take submissions.
James Shaw speaks to Lillian Hanly about the establishment of a Te Kāhui Māori Wai, a group tasked with solving freshwater problems. Wire Worry Week is looking at whenua as a legal entity and we talk about where the government stands in terms of ensuring protections around wai as taonga. James also touches on the presence of Canadian alt-right speakers who ended up cancelling their speaking event.
This week Sam takes a look at The Kinks sixth studio album "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society." Released in 1968, on this album the band began exploring more traditional English themes in what was a concept album of sorts looking at a time long gone in English society.
For our Green Party segment today Jemima spoke with Green Party MP and Education Spokesperson, Chlöe Swarbrick. They discussed the Green Party's commitment to ensuring Te Reo Māori is a core curriculum in schools by 2025 and what the Education Amendment Bill could mean for student and teacher representation on education institution councils.
This week’s Green Desk focuses on the state of our fishing industry in New Zealand. Mitchell talks to the executive director of Greenpeace Russel Norman about the governments feeble attempts to advocate for sustainable fishing, rather letting bias politicians and big-time corporations control what goes on in our oceans and what goes through our parliament. Mitchell begins by asking about the damning report that was released in 2016 which brought light to the issue.
Sherry Zhang has her weekly talk with Green party co-leader James Shaw on the recent budget announcment, which includes 1.1 billion investment into nature based jobs. They also talked about essential service workers, and how the budget may be addressing climate change. James touches on the controversial COVID-19 Public Health Response Act, which is currently being reviewed by the select committee.
This week Sherry Zhang talks to Green Party co-leader James Shaw on criticisms brought up Dr Rod Carr from the Climate Change Commission, regarding concerns that the budget does not adress climate change concerns adequetly. Greenpeace has also been outspoken in the lack of climate change mitigation projects. James also talks on how NZ is looking in regards to reducing carbon emissions, and meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement and the Zero Carbon Bill.
This week on The Green Desk, Bronwyn Wilde spoke to Dr Kēpa Morgan about mauri modelling - a framework for decision-making which measures sustainability trends. Unlike a purely economic view of sustainability, the model recognises four dimensions of wellbeing, environmental, cultural, social and economic. Kēpa first invented the mauri-o-meter in his 2008 thesis about municipal waste water management, but since then it has been applied throughout the country to a number of ecosystems, including the clean-up following the Rena oil spill. Bronwyn and Kēpa spoke about the model, how it compliments and even improves on western science, and why we value certain knowledge over others.
He began by shedding some light on the concept of "mauri".
This week on Green Desk, Bronwyn talked about climate anxiety with Michael Apathy, a psychotherapist, ecotherapist and activist from Lucid Psychotherapy in Christchurch. The American Psychological Association defines climate anxiety as "a chronic fear of environmental doom". As predictions for the future of our planet grow increasingly dire, this fear manifests itself for many in a range of emotions from grief to anger. Michael talks about how he encourages his clients to deal with these emotions in a productive way, our collective amnesia when it comes to the climate, and how we cope with multiple, overlapping crises.
He started by explaining ecotherapy which, despite having been around for a number of years in the professions of counselling, psychology and psychotherapy, is still not well defined.
95bFM