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Category: Climate change
Our Climate Shituation
Government, you are going to have to make me reduce my emissions
OK here is my mea culpa on climate action. I am guilty.
Yes, even though I have read a lot about climate change and the urgency of effective action and have been duly alarmed, even though I am active in climate groups, even though I submitted to the Climate Commission, I still lapse. Continue reading “Government, you are going to have to make me reduce my emissions”
Tradable Energy Quotas or Tradable Emissions Quotas? – our discussion rages on
We have now had three online meetings of those wanting to promote TEQs as described by Dr David Fleming and summarised by his colleague Shaun Chamberlin here. Continue reading “Tradable Energy Quotas or Tradable Emissions Quotas? – our discussion rages on”
Why has NZ managed to increase its net emissions since 1990 while others reduced them?
I asked Professor Robert McLachlan this and he answered, “Cutting down more trees than we planted wasn’t so great but the bigger impact of trees in our climate policy has been to delay getting out of fossil fuels. Continue reading “Why has NZ managed to increase its net emissions since 1990 while others reduced them?”
We’ve had ETS since 2008 but how much has it affected you?
I can’t believe it. We’ve been discussing Emissions Trading Scheme since 1993 in New Zealand and I still didn’t know how to explain it. Although I consider myself a responsible citizen who keeps up with the news I somehow managed to escape from having to learn. Continue reading “We’ve had ETS since 2008 but how much has it affected you?”
The danger of obsessing over stomach-churning stories about the climate emergency
The word of the year for 2020 was ‘doomscrollling’. Wikipedia says it can be defined as “an excessive amount of screen time devoted to the absorption of dystopian news.” Continue reading “The danger of obsessing over stomach-churning stories about the climate emergency”
How would TEQs work for those who live rurally?
A rural family of four plus an elderly mother are working out how to live with less energy. The children are 3 and 1. The father Doug owns a small farm but the mother Joan occasionally drives an hour and a half to the nearest town to give her specialist art lessons. She spends a lot on petrol her 1996 Nissan Pulsar which is often needing repairs. Continue reading “How would TEQs work for those who live rurally?”
Why are TEQs better than Fee and Dividend or Cap and Trade?
I am a recent convert to Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) invented by the late David Fleming in UK in 1996 for effective climate action. See Continue reading “Why are TEQs better than Fee and Dividend or Cap and Trade?”
Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) – Rationing that works
Some years ago I read about Tradable Energy Quotas as a method of ensuring everyone has access by right to their fair share of what fossil fuels are left and high energy users could buy units from low energy users. Then, being aware that our country, and indeed the whole world, was not make the necessary cuts to emissions in time to have a liveable climate, I thought to revisit the idea. Continue reading “Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) – Rationing that works”