When will the media report the facts about proposed changes to the Building Code in relation to water heating, rather than the political spin being circulated by some politicians? There is no proposal to restrict flow rates in showers.
The Emissions Trading Scheme is now law, but only the first small step towards getting New Zealand’s carbon emissions under control. The Green Party supported this legislation after negotiating a range of important changes , but it's important that New Zealanders do not think that, because we have an emissions trading scheme, climate change is fixed. Our guide to the ETS and the changes we won Jeanette's speech at the final reading of the Bill
an emissions trading scheme (ETS) is a way to put a price on carbon so that industries that produce greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, pay a price based on how much they emit. This cost should encourage them to find more efficient ways of doing business. This in turn will help us reduces the damage that all countries are doing to the atmosphere and reduce the risk of dangerous climate change.
The Green Party has decided to support the ETS after winning agreement that money would be recycled into a Billion dollar fund to make New Zealand homes more energy efficient and cheaper to heat. A price on carbon will encourage sustainable alternatives to our energy wasting and unsustainable way of life, but this ETS will only reduce emissions by about 2 percent. Far more than that is needed, and quickly, if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change. Watch a video of the announcement and press conference What is an ETS?
The Green Party is preparing to decide which way to vote on the very weak Emissions Trading Scheme proposed by Labour, and are asking Kiwis for their opinion. This is part one. Part two is here.
The Green Party is facing a difficult decision over whether to lend its support to the Emissions Trading Scheme. "At the beginning of this process we said we wanted to be as open about these negotiations as we could" says Jeanette Fitzsimons "and now we have reached a point where we have to make a decision on Tuesday about which way to vote, and we would like New Zealanders to tell us what they think before we do" Have your say on the ETS Watch a video of Jeanette's press conference Read about the flood of responses
The National Party's new energy policy is a tribute to cronyism and makes no economic sense. It ignores our biggest energy problem, transport fuels and the rising cost of oil, and relies on ‘drill and hope’. No one with any common sense would invest in more subsidies to fossil fuels when New Zealand is so well endowed with renewable energy.
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