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The race to carbon zero
Governments around the world are trying to tackle climate change, what Jacinda Ardern has called her generation’s nuclear-free moment. But do New Zealand’s plans live up to the hype, and what are the stakes at…
Jul 3, 2019
Emissions across the economy – Expert Reaction
Our Lynn Riggs comments to the Science Media Centre about the release of Stats NZ's latest environmental-economic accounts report which sums up the changes to greenhouse gas emissions across industry and households between 2007-2017. Emissions from industry…
Jun 27, 2019
Zero Carbon Bill could resolve hard climate change issues and give business certainty needed to invest in transformation
interest.co.nz gives our Catherine Leining a platform to discuss the Zero Carbon Bill. "So far, much of the public discussion around the Zero Carbon Bill (ZCB) has focused on what proposed emission reduction targets mean for…
Jun 25, 2019
New Human Rights Data Portal Coverage
Some amazing coverage from media around the world about HRMI’s new data that was released on Friday (NZ time). Check out the articles: Vox - Human rights in the US are worse than you think TVNZ: NZ’s disabled…
Jun 7, 2019
Motu researchers on the wellbeing budget
Arthur Grimes has an opinion piece and Catherine Leining has a hot-take in The Spinoff. Arthur is also mentioned in ABC Australia’s PM, The Canberra Times, DPA International, and the Science Media Centre expert reaction.
May 30, 2019
Motu researchers on the politics of pandanomics, the perils of fruit juice, the perks of deactivating Facebook, the best time to score, and whether weeds can save the world...
Every couple of months, Motu research analysts provide the articles that have interested them to interest.co.nz Check out this month's list.
May 24, 2019
Greenhouse gas emissions: Govt opts for harsher penalties
The government has proposed further changes to the emissions trading scheme, including tougher penalties and higher costs for emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Our Catherine Leining talks about why some of the proposed changes to…
May 20, 2019
Local expert opinion on prices is a good substitute for a full-fledged market price survey – since local prices are often missing this is great news
The comparison of poverty rates across two countries, or across regions within a country, is a common occurrence in analysis produced at the World Bank and other development agencies, as well as in published academic…
May 8, 2019
New Zealand’s well-being approach to budget is not new, but could shift major issues
At the end of this month, New Zealand will release its first “Well-being Budget”. It builds on treasury’s Living Standards Framework (LSF), published last December, which introduced a suite of well-being measures, including cultural identity,…
May 6, 2019
WTF is a wellbeing budget
Arthur Grimes discusses the upcoming wellbeing budget on the Two Cents Worth podcast from RNZ and Newsroom. There are two fundamental problems with GDP. Firstly, it overlooks unpaid work like parenting and the work of unpaid…
May 3, 2019
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