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NZ Log Exports Up, China demand Predicted to Grow, but Who's Replanting? 

28/4/2014

 
Log exports jumped to $2.4 billion in 2013 up 34% from 2012, with New Zealand now in the top three softwood log exporters in the world and the number 1 supplier to China. At the Forestry Investment Market 2014 (FIMO) conference recently held in Auckland much of the focus was on the resurgent commodity pricing for NZ logs, predominantly a result of the insatiable Chinese demand coupled with the Russian excise tax on their exports, pricing the Russians out of the market.
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Latest IPCC Report Shows NZ Heading for Climate Trouble

22/4/2014

 
NZ may be responsible for only 0.2% of global emissions. But we only have 0.06% of the worlds population. In other words we are polluting way above our weight, with the 4th highest emissions per capita.
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The latest IPCC report released at the end of March 2014 shows that NZ is not doing it's 'fair share' to mitigate climate change, and that our changing climate over the coming century means more extreme weather such as extensive floods, major droughts. Read the IPP report here, or read an article about NZ's status in the Report in the Christchurch Press 'Wake-Up call for NZ in climate report'.

Brian Fallow wrote an interesting piece in the NZ Herald outlining why it is essential for NZ to curb emissions, not from an moral/environmental viewpoint but from an economic viewpoint on reducing the monetary costs to current and future New Zealander's. Here is the link to the Article 'Curbing emissions is vital'.

MFE Latest Kyoto Reports NZ Emissions up 25% from 1990 Levels

11/4/2014

 
The latest Greenhouse Gas report was released by MFE today. The report tracks NZ's progress against the country's obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations. 

 The main conclusions drawn include:
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  1. NZ emissions in 2012 were 25% higher than the year 1990. This is primarily due to increased agriculture and transport.
  2. NZ's net emissions are slightly less than our Kyoto target of 309 million tonnes, mainly through our forests sinks removal of carbon.
  3. There is a surplus of 90 million credits in the New Zealand Registry above the Kyoto requirements. This is due to the influx of cheap foreign Kyoto units from countries such as Ukraine.
  4. NZ has the 5th highest emissions per capita out of  40 industrialised countries with an average of 16.6 tonnes of CO2e per person compared with the average of around 11 tonnes per person.

To read Minister Grosser's Release click here. To read the the MFE Report click here.
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