New Zealand's Zero Carbon Act sets net emission targets.  This is sensible. The atmosphere does not care whether the next tonne of CO2-e...

New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme includes industrial allocations of carbon credits aimed at avoiding inefficient carbon leakage. B...

Recall that New Zealand issues industrial allocations under the ETS to avoid inefficient carbon leakage.  Basically, if emissions are charge...

There are a few things you'd hope would be common knowledge about the Emissions Trading Scheme. For example, the scheme caps net emissio...

The closing of the tabs... Transport is in the ETS. Therefore, bus networks do not need decarbonisation strategies. Councils can just assess...

More bits as I clear through the tabs.  Kevin Rudd's view on south Pacific security. 20,000 hard refusals on the 2023 census, up from 60...

Will look forward to reading the Climate Commission's latest report. This bit, from Jim Rose over at Carbon News, is a bit concerning : ...

The tabs! “ Is it unfair on everybody else that has paid for that road and doesn't use it? I mean, this equity stuff's bollocks, thi...

Trees are very good at sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. Unfortunately, they eventually release it back into the atmosphere. Some gets s...

A closing of the browser tabs: The Economist's write-up of  Barcelona's new Museum of Prohibited Art.   The museum's website is ...

The tabs. There are too many. Dan Brunskill asks 20 economists how they'd define recession . A bunch of us pointed to how NBER does thin...

Another closing of the tabs: " This is troubling because the government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidy money to...

I got our submission in on the ETS review and forestry just under the wire last Friday.  For those interested, it's here. I really hate ...

The worthies, on a long-overdue closing of the browser tabs: Colby Cosh explains to Canadians something Kiwis have known for some time: the...

In the weekend papers  [ ungated ], I despaired at sets of policies that work to undermine how the ETS works.  Investment in decarbonisation...

The morning's closing of the browser tabs: Labour is determined to push its resource management reform through before the election. Nati...

The tabs do pile up. A few days out at the NZAE meetings, a couple days leave, and then digging out from under the pile... If the government...

I used to teach Hotelling pricing of non-renewable resources when I covered environmental econ as part of my current policy issues course.  ...

Bids at yesterday's auction of freshly-minted government-issued carbon credits didn't meet the reserve price for the second time in ...

A few spots you may have caught me recently... Olivia Wannan asked me about some of the carbon spend in the most recent budget. It's ju...