The Daily Blog Open Mic – 10th September 2024

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. What will the “ratchet” mechanism and Government inaction end up costing us?

    Treasury has put the cost of buying 100 million tonnes from overseas at anywhere from $3-23 billion.

    A recent briefing from government officials told politicians they risked paying five times as much for these purchases if they waited until close to 2030.

    The current target is 50 percent, from 2021 to 2030.

    All countries have to submit a new target in February.

    Every pledge has to be more ambitious than the last, a provision known as the “ratchet” mechanism.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527525/nz-s-next-climate-target-needs-to-be-more-ambitious-says-diplomat

  3. ‘Oh God save me from this vicious lying government, administration and civil? servants that we now have in NZA/O. Take us back to the 1970s when there was an effort to do things right and a belief that we could make things better, and that gummint wanted to. Amen’
    Read about this woman trying to cope with the house on a list, and not a little list.

    “They should be paying for everything that we’ve lost in that house because they’re the ones that turned around and said in the first place that we were safe in that house through natural disasters, that’s what they said.”
    Kainga Ora regional director for Counties Manukau Angela Pearce said the Ventura Street house was built to council’s standards for a 100-year storm – not the 200-year storm that hit the region.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527553/state-house-tenants-had-no-warning-home-was-on-a-flood-plain-before-big-storm

    (Hair-splitting about flood severity. Next thing houses will be built to someone’s guess for a 500 year flood! As for women getting executive positions, it seems too many of them want to execute people not the problems that are mounting. How are we better with better proportions of genders and salaries?)
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  4. I thought we encourage enterprise and small business even micro!
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527535/unfinished-auckland-apartment-block-a-blight-on-the-epsom-landscape
    …It’s been a nightmare since 2019 – when it sold we tried to build up friendly communication with the new owner so I could understand their plan, but they only want to speak through lawyers.”

    In May this year, Tan said steel bars fell off the building, which has scaffolding overhanging into Tan’s carpark, and skewered one of his workers’ cars.
    Fire crews were called and WorkSafe became involved. Tan’s shop had to be closed for three months until metal shuttering that was a further fall risk could be removed.
    An email sent to Tan on 9 August, seen by RNZ, confirmed Henderson Demolition was hired to carry out work to make the building safe, including removing ageing metal shuttering that posed a health and safety fall risk to the surrounding area…

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527535/unfinished-auckland-apartment-block-a-blight-on-the-epsom-landscape

  5. It’s happening. What are we prepared to do to limit this?
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527469/great-barrier-reef-already-been-dealt-its-death-blow-scientist
    …Gergis said solutions for up to 80 per cent of planet’s greenhouse emissions already existed, but there was not enough political will to act.
    “We are failing to address the problem… in fact we are continuing to do harm.”

    She said New Zealand would experience less pronounced warming than Australia but a central estimate would still see New Zealand experience double the warming it had already experienced so far, by 2100.

    A best case scenario, where all countries met their full promises under the Paris Agreement, would still give the planet only only a 14 percent chance of keeping global warming to 1.5C, she said.
    “This represents a catastrophic overshooting.”
    She said capturing carbon and storing it underground was not proven to be reliable and it was risky to rely on it.

    “While methane or natural gas is still being talked about as a transition fuel… burning of gas will exacerbate global warming in the near term.”
    “Although some people might try to argue black is white and white is black… The more sensible thing to do here is stop generating new emissions,” she said.

    Later in the conference, Westpac’s head of Sustainable Finance Joanna Silver said New Zealand risked being left behind now that the Australian Government had moved from disbelief in climate action to “throwing the whole weight of its economy” behind it.
    She said Australia’s about-turn could create opportunities for New Zealand businesses, and they may find Australia more attractive to base themselves in unless there were opportunities here.
    She said New Zealand was used to moving in lockstep with Australia but was now falling behind both it and other trading partners, and losing market access as a result.,,

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