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The long history of hot air and inaction

by Bryan Walker October 13, 2011

In a comment on Tom Bennion’s recent post on the water crisis in Tuvalu and Tokelau Gareth drew attention to an article in the Economist which sounded similar themes. Small island states are well aware of the danger in which they stand and of how grudging any help is likely to prove: Australia has turned [...]

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120% Pure Subsidy

by Mr February October 7, 2011

Last week, (29 September 2011 to be precise), Green MP Kennedy Graham was questioning Climate Change Issues Minister Nick Smith over his apparent lack of consistency on subsidies for fossil fuel industries. Graham was wondering why Nick Smith and Climate Change and Trade Negotiations Minister Tim Groser were happy on the one hand to oppose [...]

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Dismissing Greens’ plan out of hand not justified

by Bryan Walker September 22, 2011

The immediate government reaction to the Greens’ announcement yesterday of their “100,000 green jobs” policy was to defend the economic status quo. The Prime Minister John Key: “They are talking about putting enormous taxes on New Zealand that would send a lot of businesses bankrupt.” Transport Minister Steven Joyce weighed in: “What they’re proposing is [...]

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The Minister’s chart-junk part 2

by Mr February September 21, 2011

Simon Johnson guest posts on the mysterious number of emissions units allocated to emitters and a junk chart in the Ministry for the Environment’s Report on the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. You may recall that I previously commented on the low quality of data presentation in the Ministry for the Environment report Report on [...]

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The NZ ETS Review 2011: Clear signals for business as usual

by Mr February September 16, 2011

Simon Johnson’s guest post offers prompt comment on the ETS review. Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick Smith has finally released the delayed report of the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme Review 2011. The 98-page report is titled Doing New Zealand’s Fair Share, The Emissions Trading Scheme Review 2011. The review panel chaired by former Rogernome [...]

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Charting unexplained territory in the NZ ETS Report

by Mr February August 17, 2011

So far, I have posted on the comprehensiveness of the NZ ETS vs the Australian Clean Energy Future ETS, the Kyoto chart junk in the Report on the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, and the over-supply of the New Zealand Units in 2010. This post mixes two of these ideas; searching out bad charts and [...]

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The over-allocated units in the Report on the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

by Mr February August 11, 2011

Simon Johnson continues his series of guest posts looking at the Australian and New Zealand carbon pricing schemes. Finally I have got past the chartjunk and I have read the Report on the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme that Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick Smith released on 1 August 2011. Perhaps the first point [...]

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The NZ ETS Review 2011 and the Minister’s Kyoto Chartjunk

by Mr February August 5, 2011

In a previous guest post Simon Johnson looked at the new Australian carbon pricing scheme. Here he begins to examine the report on how the New Zealand scheme is faring. A few days ago I was intending to carefully read the Report on the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme that Minister for Climate Change Issues [...]

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The Trans-Tasman carbon test

by Mr February July 13, 2011

Hot Topic reader and regular commenter Simon Johnson (aka Mr February) was spurred by the discussion here about Australia’s new carbon pricing policies to dig into the details. In this guest post he looks at how the new Aussie scheme compares with NZ’s Emissions Trading Scheme… I have to admit I did rush to conclude [...]

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Carbon pricing comes to Australia

by Gareth July 11, 2011

Australia will set a price on carbon from July next year, Aussie PM Julia Gillard announced yesterday. Cost per tonne will be set at A$23, rising 2.5% per annum, and the initial tax will morph into an emissions trading scheme from 2015. A full list of the key points and links to comment and reaction [...]

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