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See Open letter to Jeanette Fitzsimons,
click here.
Introduction
For quite some time now New
Zealanders have been bombarded with information about climate change,
greenhouse gases, carbon credits, emissions trading, to name just a few of
words in this reasonably new language.
While the Government has had an
army of civil servants and others generating copious reports, theoretical
models etc, very little has been done to allow the "man in the street" or
key business sectors to be able to understand the likely implications of
proposed policies for
them.
Carboncalcs.com is being
developed to change that and allow individuals to look at some
aspects of their "carbon foot-print" as well as looking at the financial
impact of the forthcoming climate change policy regime, starting with land based activities
(because they are the most significant and probably least understood.
Although the Kyoto protocol
is about "fixing" greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels (a period when
NZ was climbing out of the post 1987 crash when everyone else in the world
had moved on), the Prime Minister is reported to be on record as having
proposed a zero emissions objective. This would come at a huge cost
to NZ Inc. And in the context of world emissions, NZ contributes an
infinitesimal amount of CO2 equivalents. However, we need to be
seen to be playing our part. Only time will tell at what cost!
For the starting place to get a handle on the
magnitude of the value the Climate Change Bill is seeking to expropriate
from private landowners, including Maori, click
here. The figures will astound you.
Check on the savings you may be able to make from
low energy light bulbs,
click here! |