Climate change is on the minds of world leaders gathering for the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, next week. They'll be talking about emissions reductions, carbon markets and other tactics to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. It's far removed from South Carolina's Low Country, where members of the Gullah Geechee Nation are already feeling the effects of climate change.
Opponents of a $280 million roading project in Taranaki unsuccessfully attempted to stall their own appeal against the upgrade by accusing Waka Kotahi of perjury in relation to the Mt Messenger bypass.
The revelation after the agency said no roosts or potential roosts of the endangered long-tail bat would be disturbed before the Mt Messenger bypass got the green light.
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