Climate Matters

Emissions form 1st Class and economy flying - climate change affecting turtle gender balance and albatross divorce rates - huge electric logging truck - NZ government debrief from COP26 - A wonderful graphic of emissions per capita - hot tip: write our own climate to do lists

Reader contributions - Large scale PV farms – Shopping bag with a diff – Citizen’s assemblies for climate? – Extinction rebellion “marks” NCC building – Excluding cars revitalised Pontevedra

Climate Change 101: more on personal climate footprints; relating them to national total; the effect of trees; personal carbon budgets and calculators; CM 36: Welcome to the Climate Change Commission; “Love letter to the World” Valentine’s Day poetry competition; Beware Jevons Paradox – making thing more efficient often increases demand; Was COP25 a COP OUT?; letter to government on biodiesel: HOT TIPS – make New Years microresolutions

COP26: Using Shakespeare to put it in context; Why COP26 is so important; Rod Oram, NZ’s only journo in Glasgow; The Human Rights Council’s Climate Rapporteur; will it also take the courts to compel the NZ government to act. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/podcast-the-detail/cop26-last-chance-to-ramp-up-climate-change-ambition - https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/the-queen-slams-world-leaders-who-wont-commit-to-climate-action-irritating/A47WBNPC423MAVC34FPV5TJFWI/ - https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pro/a-bastion-of-british-cars-transforms-itself - https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/126588447/why-next-months-climate-conference-is-such-a-big-deal - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-court-orders-state-honour-its-climate-commitments-oxfam-2021-10-14/ - https://eciu.net/analysis/infographics/cop26-climate-infographic

Climate Matters, an audio version of Lindsay Woods' Climate Matters newsletter that gives intriguing insights into climate breakdown and climate recovery.

Concept of carbon footprint; “embodied carbon”, “Operational carbon” ; examples with petrol and electric cars; The Zero Carbon Act; “By Sea Mouths Speaking” environmental poetry; Germany company in court for melting Peruvian glacier; Seaweed research for low-methane stock feed; Surprising CO2 info on housing; Hot Tip: never buy a new just-fossil-fuel car.

OIL SPONSORSHIP OF RUGBY - Kiwis in Climate letter to Rugby NZ - media coverage of the KIC letter - All Blacks in the wrong place and wrong side, playing Wales exactly as COP 26 opens - congressional inquiry into oilcos spreading climate disinformation - JuiceMedia's racy COP26 video satire - "carbon heist" of indigenous forests.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1az0xOxma32FpwrPnHtX-HmGQ3rUHjkoF/view - https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ad-cop26-climate-summit/ - https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/126812817/oil-deal-tarnishes-the-all-blacks-brand-say-explayers-musician-neil-finn-and-others - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8Me4hbTJu7VStlwvUzj1yIX9UD-U8cjKhCL0IMIf2Q8kxTg/viewform?pli=1&fbzx=6617679352034538668 - https://www.clientearth.org/projects/the-greenwashing-files/ineos/

Climate Matters, an audio version of Lindsay Woods' Climate Matters newsletter that gives intriguing insights into climate breakdown and climate recovery.

This week: OIL SPONSORSHIP OF RUGBY - Kiwis in Climate letter to Rugby NZ - media coverage of the KIC letter - All Blacks in the wrong place and wrong side, playing Wales exactly as COP 26 opens - congressional inquiry into oilcos spreading climate disinformation - JuiceMedia's racy COP26 video satire - "carbon heist" of indigenous forests.

LINKS:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1az0xOxma32FpwrPnHtX-HmGQ3rUHjkoF/view - https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ad-cop26-climate-summit/ - https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/126812817/oil-deal-tarnishes-the-all-blacks-brand-say-explayers-musician-neil-finn-and-others - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8Me4hbTJu7VStlwvUzj1yIX9UD-U8cjKhCL0IMIf2Q8kxTg/viewform?pli=1&fbzx=6617679352034538668 - https://www.clientearth.org/projects/the-greenwashing-files/ineos

COP26: Using Shakespeare to put it in context; Why COP26 is so important; Rod Oram, NZ’s only journo in Glasgow; The Human Rights Council’s Climate Rapporteur; will it also take the courts to compel the NZ government to act. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/podcast-the-detail/cop26-last-chance-to-ramp-up-climate-change-ambition - https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/126588447/why-next-months-climate-conference-is-such-a-big-deal - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-court-orders-state-honour-its-climate-commitments-oxfam-2021-10-14/

Climate Matters, an audio version of Lindsay Woods' Climate Matters newsletter that gives intriguing insights into climate breakdown and climate recovery.

Government falling short in climate education; wearing warm clothes can save a power station; the arts speak to our hearts on climate; energy shortages likely here to stay; hot tip: ration your non-essential driving

Climate Matters, an audio version of Lindsay Woods' Climate Matters newsletter that gives intriguing insights into climate breakdown and climate recovery.