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Here you will find resources, information and multimedia available to aid the media in the coverage of the COP15 climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. COP15 coverage in the New Zealand Media COP15 analysis on Sciblogs.co.nz AusSMC photos available to the media AusSMC video available to the media The SMC will be issuing daily updates on [...]

COP 15: Is a deal on the cards? The Copenhagen climate conference kicks off over the weekend and while there won’t be many (if any) New Zealand scientists attending, the New Zealand media will be well-represented (six journalists will be on the ground covering it) and the conference has high-level political buy-in with the Prime [...]

Switzerland’s ambassador to New Zealand, Dr Beat Nobs, gave a lecture as part of Victoria University’s Climate Change Research Institute lecture series on climate change and Copenhagen. About to finish up a four year term here as ambassador, Dr Nobs reflects on prospects for a deal being hammered out in Copenhagen. Previously he served as [...]

David Williams of The Press reports on the disagreement over the changes to the proposed ETS between parties. Currently, the proposed changes are likely to encounter a 6-all stalemate, meaning they will have to be renegotiated.  While many would like for New Zealand to have an agreed ETS in place before Copenhagen next month, others [...]

Biowaste: Save our soils? It is easy to forget that New Zealand’s wealth is underpinned by the top 15 centimetres of soil coating our productive land. Our agriculture relies on fertile soil, but each year 200 – 300 million tonnes of topsoil is washed out to sea – a rate up to ten times faster [...]