Can NZ step up and address Earth system decline?
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The Government of Aotearoa New Zealand has a unique opportunity to demonstrate leadership and action by changing its laws to conform with the laws of nature, writes Klaus Bosselmann. Rather than relying on International Panel...
Indigenous knowledge offers solutions but is there enough meaningful collaboration?
Photo by Sophie Turner on Unsplash Tara McAllister, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Cate Macinnis-Ng, University of Auckland, and Dan C H Hikuroa, University of Auckland As global environmental challenges grow, people and societies are...
The UN is asking the International Court of Justice for its opinion on states’ climate obligations. What does this mean?
Photo by NOAA on Unsplash Jacqueline Peel, The University of Melbourne and Zoe Nay, The University of Melbourne The United Nations has just backed a landmark resolution on climate justice. Last week, the UN General Assembly supported a Pacific-led resolution asking...
Is ‘climate anxiety’ a clinical diagnosis? Should it be?
(Image credit: Getty Image/BBC) Fiona Charlson, The University of Queensland and Tara Crandon, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, comprised of the world’s most esteemed climate experts, delivered its...
We’re building harder, hotter cities: Should we instead protect and grow urban green spaces?
Housing intensification in Hamilton. PCE, CC BY-SA Timothy Welch, University of Auckland Recent extreme weather events have provided a foretaste of how supercharged storms might threaten our future. So the release today of a new report from the Parliamentary...
West Papuan campaigners want a ‘green state’. Could it help the planet?
Madang, West Papua. Photo by Jonathan E. Shaw, Flickr (CC BY_NC 2.0) By Ben Wray OPINION: Independence activists want to combine the best parts of liberal democracy with indigenous traditions. Due to the strength of their diverse indigenous...
Why is the UN calling for a gendered approach to climate – and how does Aotearoa stack up?
Photo by UN Women Gallery , licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 By Bex Ansell and Izzy Renton On November 14th, 2022, COP27 included the conference’s first-ever day devoted to gender. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, laid out three things the UN Climate...
How does COP27’s loss and damage deal really look to the Global South?
By Oxfam East Africa – Kuay Makuach, farmer, Lankien, South Sudan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Amelia Womack Warning: This article contains images of dead animals that some readers may find distressing After two weeks of fractious discussions, at the very...
Why do social ties matter to climate politics?
“Traffic Jam. New Zealand style.” by Bernard Spragg is marked with CC0 1.0 Last month, New Zealand was recognised internationally for being the first country planning to charge farmers for agricultural emissions. Meanwhile New Zealand’s farmers...Subscribe by Email
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