The Environmental Defence Society has released a 34-minute video of their CEO Gary Taylor interviewing the Climate Change Minister, Hon Simon Watts last week. The Minister outlined his intentions around: Current and pending Nationally Determined Contributions The draft second Emissions Reduction Plan and required level of ambition The Emissions Trading...
The Government’s emissions reduction policies are looking inadequate as the Climate Change Commission warns there are significant risks that New Zealand will not meet our second and third emissions reductions budgets out to 2035. Even achieving our first emissions reduction budget to 2025 is not guaranteed. The Minister of Climate...
EDS has launched the final report of Phase 1 of its Climate Adaptation Project. Titled Design Recommendations for a Climate Adaptation Act, the report sets out a package of statutory and institutional reforms to enable the country to successfully adapt to climate risks. “The need for new legislation has taken...
This Environmental Grants Program is for all not-for-profits and organisations dedicated to raising awareness of the protection of the environment or promoting sustainable practices. Submissions are open now until 28 July and application forms are available here. The 2024 Grants will be awarded under the following categories: 1 x Environmental...
Forty hihi – one of NZ’s rarest forest birds – have been translocated from Tiritiri Matangi Island to Shakespear Regional Park’s open sanctuary. They are fantail-sized and fast, and will often approach people. They have a white wing bar and a high-pitched whistle. The male birds have a black head...
The Environment Select Committee today recommended that this Bill be passed with minor amendments. It will create 12 new high protection areas, five new seafloor protection areas and two extensions to existing marine reserves. The boundaries of the areas to be protected are unchanged from those initially set out in...
Releasing exotic fish into waterways upsets natural ecosystems, by forcing native species to compete for habitat, degrading water quality, introducing parasites and disease, and depleting native insects, fish eggs and plants. They can breed quickly, making it difficult to get rid of them. Pet birds can upset the delicate ecosystem...
Tāmaki Makaurau has been recognised as a Tree City of the World by the Arbor Day Foundation and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This is the fourth year running we have received this international accreditation, being one of 200 cities recognised this year, in the Tree...
The closure of the Leys Institute in December 2019, the 4 years of community consultation and the advocacy of the Waitematā Local Board for the seismic strengthening and restoration of these treasured regionally and nationally significant heritage buildings have been reported on in several earlier CTA posts. Friends of Leys...
CTA’s submission on the government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill was one of around 27,000 submissions, and we were one of the many groups that also presented at the select committee hearings. Our president spoke on our behalf on 27 May and can be seen in this video from 1:03:54 – 1:13:30....