Bowen urges world to unite on climate fight, declaring it an ‘environmental imperative’

It's spring planting season in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you've recently bought Zelandia seedlings, the recycled plastic pots are MADE OF MONEY youtu.be/bvgHQIT8R_w

The NZ car industry has made no progress towards meeting the 2025 emissions standards. Are they even trying?

Ahead of #COP30 a new article from me, unpacking whether New Zealand's 2035 Paris Agreement target (a 51-55% reduction) meets Paris Agreement criteria. TLDR lol no. (outside the paywall, thanks Carbon News!)

Most of these changes will be legislated in 2026, so it's not a done deal yet!

That's NZ, Scottish, and Aussie bsky fucked

In the middle of a scary movie, paranormal attack going on - cue #eqnz.

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

EU agrees 90% emissions reduction target for 2040, with at least 85% domestic.

This person took this when they called the race

The invasion of Parihaka, 5 November 1881. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...

Look, I love polling, considerably more than most people. But if you start crafting an agenda from what polls well, rather than starting with what a better world looks like, one that connects to the general public's needs, and how you get from here to there, then you have no business in politics

Have a read, especially those of you who are so tired of reading stories where simple questions aren’t asked 👇

UNEP's latest annual “emissions gap” report is out - countries' climate plans "barely move the needle" on future warming @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/unep-new-cou...

Well that's not great. environment.govt.nz/news/governm...

Learn more about America's Biggest 2025 Climate Win™️ from one of the people who helped get it done. 👇

I'm often very critical of Christopher Luxon as PM, so I try to make it a point to say when I think he's doing something well. And while it seems like a low bar, his being this assertive and direct here is something he could easily have avoided.

Heads up for tomorrow climate whānau

I'm really looking forward to Catherine Knight's talk on her book "An Uncommon Land", at the Paraparaumu Boating Club, Tuesday 11 November from 6:30. Register at www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/do-it-online...

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

Agriculture drives about 1/3 of GHG emissions around the world, and Brazil has made it a priority at next month’s COP30. This increased pressure is fueling disinfo and greenwashing... By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social.

If climate policy had a “best buy,” it might be methane cuts Global methane mitigation has a benefit–cost ratio >6:1, even before accounting for near-term climate feedbacks A strong case: it’s among the most efficient levers in climate policy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Seen elsewhere. 💯

Tomatoes in: red cherry, yellow cherry, yellow pear, black cherry, Roma, black krim and a mystery self-seeded one. Thanks to Paekakariki school plant sale for the interesting varieties!

I think the wastewater team in PHFS deserve to be noted and congratulated for the best practice of, as well as publishing the dashboard, continuing to publish the underlying data (at the GitHub site).

"Renewables will never be able to supply as much energy as coal."  Erm, actually they just did... In September 2025, renewables supplied 48.8% of electricity on Australia’s National Electricity Market, surpassing coal’s share for the first time since records began. https://f.mtr.cool/fxsbjdsxof

It's not pumpkin season, so we improvise.

Current rate of sea level rise is 4.7mm/year (average over past 10 years), more than twice the 20th century average rise. Half a metre by 2100 best estimate if Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal is met - much more if not.

Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over And for fans of GHG metrics: "[...] Lastly, although the best basis for comparing methane and CO2 abatement should be relative social costs, we have found that the convention of using GWP100 is a reasonable approximation."

Rules based trade is critical for small countries like AONZ... and that means following the rules. Like environmental and labour standards in trade agreements.

I too have vanadium pentoxide etched in my memory without any further context. Just the other week I was telling a youngster (30-something) about the history of Methanex (gas to gasoline - whoop whoop!) and how we had to memorise all the Think Big industrial chemistry in 1980s high school science.

I'm reading the new Social Sciences curriculum content and I wasn't prepared for how sad I would feel. We spent thousands of hours working with the previous iteration and the NZ history content and all that enthusiasm and excitement was just killed for something so bad.

This is interesting - Germany splits CO2 cost on heating fuels between landlords and tenants.

I'm genuinely ok with spirituality, but I have a real problem with physics words being co-opted to make it sound sciencey.

NEW from us: current clean energy targets and trends enable China, India, and Indonesia to peak power sector emissions by 2030. This would be a global breakthrough given that these nations have been the largest growth markets for coal in the decade since the Paris Agreement. bsky.app/profile/crea...

I can confirm Pōneke "feels like 3°C". The only consolation is that the rain is vertical not sideways. #Shitsville

I think that if a property owner dies without a will and doesn't have direct beneficiaries, land should just go back to tangata whenua. Seems like it should be uncontentious - if you don't like it, write a will! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/governmen...

My afternoon Pōneke coffee meeting started in sunshine (let's sit outside!) and ended with scarpering back to the office as thunderclaps and a dark cloud warned us this was coming...

This goes double if you have any friends who are currently immunocompromised, for example, undergoing chemo treatment. They can't get the measles vaccine, because it's a live one, but you getting it helps keep them that little bit safer. My good friends all did this for me during the 2019 outbreak.

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Another slammin’episode of @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast, this on the animal agriculture industry and how it’s avoided climate accountability. Great job colleagues and @amywestervelt.bsky.social Also a video on YouTube! drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

I need this Tshirt. (Vinyl&Proud DJing the 80s disco at Paekākāriki Pride).

Dreamt about engaging with the @IPCC 's Special Report on Climate Change and Cities #SRCities? The expert review is ongoing, closing on December 12th: www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p... It is the thousands of review comments that make the IPCC's reports so widely "owned", thus so impactful!

Really stoked with the new retaining wall that has given us a flat garden area in our sand-dune back garden. Courgettes, strawberries, cucumbers, tomatoes ready to go in the new garden boxes after Monday's storm.

"We stand at a crossroads where the choices we make about our food systems will determine not just the trajectory of climate change, but the very viability of agriculture itself." I was happy to write a foreword for the new Roasting the Planet report: foodrise.org.uk/research/roa... Foreword 👇🧵

Coincidentally, this Saturday is also the amazing annual plant sale and gala at Paekākāriki School, 10am start, in case you need some plants to garden with.

Last new coal plant proposals cancelled or shelved in Thailand, Kenya, Tajikistan & Uzbekistan, Cambodia deciding not to build any new coal, Morocco committing to a 2040 coal phase-out, proposals for new coal power outside China at record low - lots of progress happening outside front page news.

I was on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the Whitehouse around 10am on September 11 2001. Nobody knew what was going on yet - buildings had been evacuated, there was smoke in the distance. In following years, I often thought about the 4th plane and what might have been. 1/-

thisisfine.gif #ClimateCrisis #nzpol #fossilfools