If you are in Wellington today (or Auckland or Christchurch or Dunedin or Wanaka coming soon) get yourself to the award winning live theatre show Motion sickness- now! (Tickets here www.a2company.com.au/events ) But don’t just take my word for it! See: www.theatreview.org.nz/production/m...

One thing that has been overlooked in megaministry commentary and with MfE specifically is the withdrawal of funding and policy dev on waste streams, waste minimisation. It’s really important work and NZ stats on landfill, e-waste, lack of recycling infrastructure are frankly, embarrassing.

It makes no sense to rush into a giant centralised government department that merges environment into housing/transport etc. it creates huge transaction costs, taking NZ back years in effective climate and environment action, losing focus, accountability & skills www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

‘Immigrants in our own country’: Hone Kouka on the 30-year legacy of Waiora Te Ukāipō

things I learned about disaster recovery 1)They said it takes 15 yrs to rebuild a city+15 billion state funding- they were right 2) no one was held accountable for all the deaths in 1 sub-standard building 3) cities need the vision of arts & Indigenous communities www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Imagine making profits of 19% off childrens suffering …UK 2025

This.. #democracy #transparency

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

More extreme weather more often. What do our leaders think we should do? In a word, not much. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Climate

Honestly if NZ parties don’t front up about their plans for climate & basic infrastructure we should be deeply ashamed -NZ has a sewerage crisis in all our major cities, we have flooding & landslides causing loss of life & critical failure s- thinking we can cap rates & manage this, is crazy

Applications open for the 2026 Sustainable Justice HBCU Fellowship. “Through this fellowship, I deepened my understanding of environmental and health equity and grew in leadership, communication, and advocacy.” -Esther Aina, 2025 Fellow Apply by March 27: https://ow.ly/eZ8b50YetgY

Also just published today- why we are closer than we thought to self reinforcing warming www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

grateful to Janet Wilson just calling it as it is- while we had a fantastic head start in NZ with much hydro electricity- the govt is now taking a short sighted step back -it’s not just a tax, it is a subsidy for international old fashioned energy-let’s think harder www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

A government that enables police to use force against civilians with no accountability, review or consequences… Australia today. #majorEventLegislation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We need a lot more of the kind of reflections that Justin Tipa and Luke Malpass offered this weekend- time to come together to solve these difficult collective problems NZ faces rather than point scoring on social media (note to myself as well!) www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

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Irony is… A NZ government that gave landlords a massive tax break now campaigning saying trust us on tax & no frivolous spending As 2 of NZ’s largest cities Christchurch/Wellington face critical wastewater infrastructure crises (& National climate risk) if only NZ govt planned long term #nzpol

Just quietly noting Avida St Albans rest home’s Waitangi display plus weekly Te Reo classes & with marae and kohanga visits for elderly people who never got to engage in a reo journey or learn about te Ao Māori- fantastic young staff lead it and it’s so appreciated Ngā mihi nui #nzpol

Some NZ journalists are still writing about increasing storms but not providing any context: ‘as our climate changes’ I’d say it’s just an omission were it not for a comment by a radio panelist last week that she’d never heard a reported connection between more extreme storm events & climate change

Fact: Climate change is making the weather more extreme. My #cartoon today #NZpol #ClimateChange #Floods #ClimateInaction

More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

This is a major win The Netherlands will have to put a climate action plan in place to protect the people of Bonaire, AND make stricter climate targets to contribute a fair share to limiting global heating #ClimateJustice

New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.

In the wake of tragic loss of life on this week’s storms in NZ I spoke to Radio NZ about why we need to prepare for growing extreme storm events as a result of the underlying climate changes we are seeing and why this is particularly important for children’s futures www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Hundreds of Christchurch people turning up for Lord of the Rings on 90 mins despite the rain! part of the #antonyHarper & #WorldBuskersfestival @christchurchlib.bsky.social

This.

2025 global climate highlights are out: 🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level 📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5) 🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... ⚒️🧪🌊

🌡️ WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record. 2025 was one of the 3 warmest years on record, with the global average surface temperature at 1.44°C ± 0.13°C above the 1850-1900 average, according to WMO’s consolidated analysis of 8 datasets. 🔗 https://bit.ly/49xpkWP

With such serious issues facing our democracies and our planet i am grateful for the opportunity to work with organisations like the @frontiersmedia.bsky.social prize led by Johan Rockstrom who resolutely focus on finding & funding solutions for a sustainable & fairer future youtu.be/Uqq39siolCA?...

Thanks Radio NZ for careful, reporting of NZ’s record temperatures via Earth Science. My frustration is with @tvnz.bsky.social no climate editor leaves TVNZ reliant on reporters, many great but others need help-not mentioning climate change/causes once was unacceptable www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Like many, the insidious impact of social media on how our politics means I constantly wrestle with just leaving it vs finding analysis beyond polarisation-grateful for links! @timjackson.org.uk & Laura Clark for youtu.be/rTCnOD_szRw?... & timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/the-wr... #Venezuela

On positive @tvnz.bsky.social stories thank goodness! Thomas Mead did not deserve this and it must have been intimidating and trying to

📢 ❗Just published: "Solar geoengineering for profit" In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures. www.solargeoeng.org/solar-geoeng... Their key message? 🧵👇 1/8

📌 Deadline extended for college students to submit climate justice research for our 2026 conference. Share your work with EJ community members and industry professionals. Awards available for top undergrad and grad presenters 🏆 🌐 Submit here www.dscej.org/ccc-2026

If you are living in NZ I spoke this morning on breakfast news TVNZ at 7.15am about the extraordinary and serious situation NZ suddenly finds itself in with no plans on climate www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/breakf...

A very long *way! (Wishing there was an edit button)

About half way through The panel today with Wallace Chapman on Radio NZ I talk about the chaotic situation the government finds itself in without a plan for climate policy, a very long from the John Key government’s Paris position www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

A confession: even if I’d time, I would not listen to 2 politicians going ‘head to head’ on @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy for all the reasons below -we don’t need more conflict framing -we need thoughtful insight but algorithms reward bad behaviour in leaders too robertreich.substack.com/p/the-moneti...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

This is actually brave and good news

proud of NZ and Australian universities/ librarians standing up to Elsevier-in my view Elsevier has a monopoly like ownership of Scopus the data base that drives university rankings & it charges very high rates to publish work the public often funded in the first place (while not paying reviewers)

So many people I respect in TVNZ but how is it possible for one news tonight to describe Mcskimming as merely having had an affair with a junior staffer or to report on all the devastation in south east Asia as a natural disaster with not a single mention of climate change as an underlying driver?

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

Do you have some kids that want to learn about climate change? Or perhaps you want to learn some more, but in a more accessible language? Then check out this Special Collection... kids.frontiersin.org/collections/... 1/

NZ national’s had a ‘deplorables’ moment. While bottom feeders’ should have haunted National but hasn’t (because poor & vulnerable communities are not the focus of this particular govt) calling the actions of middle class communities supporting Triti in schools, ‘disgusting’ will haunt them #nzpol

today the NZ climate minister implied because we signed up to transition away from fossil fuel agreement back in 2023 we didn’t need to join the 83 countries including the UK, Ireland, and the Pacific wanting to put this into action at cop 30 -leaving NZ on the side of oil states blocking action

The #COP30 Presidency’s Mutirão consultations quickly descended into turmoil, with groups diverging on whether to address the issue of fossil fuel phaseout, among others They continued consulting into the night (1/2) Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli... #climate #climatechange

Full text of letter leaked to Guardian saying at least 29 nations won't agree a deal without a road map for a phase-out of fossil fuels "true leadership is .. not lowering expectations to accommodate the most reluctant" #cop30 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

1/3. 🗣️The #COP30 president Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, quotes Mohamed Adow of #PowerShiftAfrica on yesterday's fire 🔥: “Even in a moment of chaos one thing stood out, people of every race and creed took care of each other.”

Dear @georgemonbiot.bsky.social welcome to @adaptationfutures.bsky.social ! adaptationfutures2025.com we do care and 2000 scientist just met to work on this and related issues