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Niven Winchester co-author on MIT's 2018 Food, Water, Energy and Climate Outlook
Charting the Earth’s future for the 21st centuryMIT report highlights challenges and opportunities for conserving natural resources and stabilizing the climate CAMBRIDGE, MA—In 2015 the Paris Agreement specified the need for its nearly 200 signatory nations…
Short musical tribute to the first decade of the NZ ETS
On 25 September 2018, the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) marked its first decade since entry into law. A new video “The NZ ETS: Beyond the Barricade” has been released in honour of…
Curious Minds: Isabelle Sin
Curious Minds is featuring Motu's Isabelle Sin as their woman in STEM this week. "Find something you love and work to become awesome at it. You don’t want to be stuck in a job that bores you…
Motu researchers on predicting obesity rates from space, reinventing cities, genes associated with education, and the Ig Nobel Prizes
The top ten recommended reads at interest.co.nz from Ben Davies, Sophie Hale, Dominic White, and Kate Preston.
Why NZ’s emissions trading scheme should have an auction reserve price
Catherine Leining and Suzi Kerr discuss how a price floor works and why the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme needs one in The Conversation. "If we want to make a smart transition to a low-emission economy, we…
Motu Researcher off to top US University
Edmund Lou, a Research Analyst at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, has been granted a full scholarship for a PhD programme at Northwestern University, and is heading off to Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern is ranked 7th…
Understanding and Improving the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme
Catherine Leining writes about New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme at Sciblogs. Sciblogs brings together the best science bloggers in the country on one website, creating a hub for scientific analysis and discussion and facilitating reader…
Motu News - August 2018
From the Interim Director of Motu Research Over the past few months, by my quick count, Motu researchers have completed more than twenty external presentations, twelve externally published articles, eight Motu working papers and, in several…
Can Angola’s new president get rid of corruption and revive his party’s reputation?
This article in The Washington Post uses HRMI data to discuss Angolan politics and human rights.
EQC flood claims come from the rich and close to the coast
Since the turn of the century, more than 25,000 claims worth nearly $300 million have been paid out by the Earthquake Commission (EQC) for damages caused by wild weather. “With climate change it’s vital to know…
