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This blog post from Jeanette Fitzsimons is a valuable addition to how people can think about making NZ climate-safe. The recent Climate Declaration to the NZ govt includes the suggestion: “Abandon the ETS and replace it…
Aug 21, 2017
THE future of East Coast carbon farming has received a boost with a three-year research project beginning this year to identify the opportunities and barriers for reforesting Maori land. Ruatoria charitable company Hikurangi Enterprises, Motu Economic…
Aug 21, 2017
Arthur Grimes has been appointed a member of the six person Jury of the European Prize in Regional Science, also known as the ERSA Prize. ERSA is the European Regional Science Association which has 3500 members…
Aug 17, 2017
So far our Emissions Trading Scheme has been deemed largely ineffectual, thanks to low-integrity overseas credits and low emission prices. Motu’s Catherine Leining believes recent global and local changes mean the ETS can do its…
Aug 17, 2017
EHF Fellow Anne-Marie Brook is developing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative. Working in her OECD office in Paris in the mid-2000s, Anne-Marie Brook found herself looking for data sets that could help support economic advice to…
Aug 16, 2017
For tracking the influence and progression of ideas and advances, one tool that has proved to be invaluable is citation analysis – quantifying and examining the previous works that a given scientific paper cites, as…
Aug 14, 2017
New Zealand is the first, and still the only, country to fully include forest landowners in a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme, the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS). A new paper released today…
Aug 1, 2017
Jenee Tibshraeny from interest.co.nz reports on rising sea levels & the 'no insurance no mortgage' dilemma, with response from the insurance companies. "Climate change - when does it get real? When a king tide and cyclone collide…
Jul 31, 2017
The Government today announced a package of changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) following a review of the system. Catherine Leining, Motu's Policy Fellow, responded in the media: NZ Herald - Brian Fallow: Govt's carbon policy?…
Jul 26, 2017
It doesn’t take long for visitors to the office of Adam Jaffe, Director of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, to notice a framed replica of the Nobel Peace Prize on the wall. After letting…
Jul 25, 2017
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