Unpaid parents on school boards were asked to count and cut carbon, until the Ministry of Education stepped in. But compromises may put the carbon-neutral goal at risk.
Mike Joy: Why I was disappointed by the Climate Commission’s big report
Opinion
The prime minister said yesterday that we need to move faster on climate – but does the government really understand how fast it’s going to have to act? Yesterday’s report suggests the message still hasn’t got through, writes ecologist Mike Joy.
“The time is now” is the headline for the Climate Commission’s final advice to the government released yesterday. After looking at the detail I think a more apt title would be “The time is later”.
This final advice suffers from the same issues as those in the draft advice, which led the group Lawyers for Climate Action to conclude that “the Commission appears to have focused on what is ‘achievable’ rather than first asking ‘What is necessary to contribute to limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5° Celsius? ”
Auckland, 28 May 2021 A widespread protest movement is building against Fonterra for the damage it is wreaking on environmental and human health, with three protests being held today in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. Two protests are being .
Press Release – Coal Action Network
A widespread protest movement is building against Fonterra for the damage it is wreaking on environmental and human health, with protests being held today in Wellington, Auckland, and Dunedin.
In Wellington, protestors gathered at 1pm in Midland Park, opposite Fonterra’s Lambton Quay offices, chanting and singing their protests. Groups involved: Fridays For The Future, Coal Action Network Aotearoa, Extinction Rebellion.
The day began with activists again blocking railway tracks in Dunedin to stop a train carrying coal to Fonterra’s Clandeboye dairy factory in South Canterbury.
Two weeks ago saw a choir outside of Environment Canterbury’s headquarters in Christchurch, opposing the granting of another 10-year consent to an irrigation scheme, which would further pollute rivers already in a state of crisis.
The protests have been organised by a variety of different groups.
“Fonterra and its farmers profit from dumping their pollution, and waste, for free, into our atmosphere, water and soil, causing worsening climate change, unswimmable rivers, undrinkable water, poor animal welfare, tropical deforestation, loss of amenity and biodiversity, and health risks to everyone, including bowel cancer and premature babies,” said Rob Taylor of
, a co-organiser of today’s Auckland protest.
“Fonterra is arguably Aotearoa’s worst polluter, and people are understandably upset about it; we can expect to see a lot more activism, not least because the Government has left the dairy industry out of the emissions trading scheme, and is resisting stronger controls on nitrate pollution,” he said.