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New Zealand’s Future Infrastructure
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:46 pm | The Wise Response Society
Designing a collection of infrastructure which can operate beyond fossil energy, is vastly different from attempting to morph our current fossil-dependent collection to run on ‘renewable’ energy and renewable/recyclable resources. More >>
Who Is Going To Pay Our Debt?
Friday, 16 August 2024, 12:05 pm | The Wise Response Society
The assumption that growth would diffuse debt, is well past its use-by date. Wise Response suggests we need a different method of accounting. A method that determines whether debt is actually repayable, and takes into account physical realities. More >>
Fast-track Bill A Fraud Being Perpetrated On All Future Generations
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 12:35 pm | The Wise Response Society
The Fast-track Bill, if passed, would allow three Ministers, unchallenged and unchecked, to approve the immediate extraction and exhaustion of one-off resources. More >>
Journalism – Call For Public Funding
Friday, 1 March 2024, 3:30 pm | The Wise Response Society
Journalism should be about ascertaining truths. Ironically, the need to at least break-even financially, has resulted in ratings squeezing out quality investigative journalism. This has resulted in promotion of poorly researched and often biased ... More >>
Wise Response Society's Reply To Shane Jones's Revelations In Parliament This Week
Thursday, 14 December 2023, 8:48 pm | The Wise Response Society
Minister Shane Jones claims: “We are going to extract the dividend from Mother Nature's legacy…”. He is incorrect; he is planning to extract the principle – an approach which inevitably delivers no dividend. The Minister’s approach ends ... More >>
Wise Response Society Slams Climate Change Commission's Growth Orientation
Monday, 26 June 2023, 10:48 am | The Wise Response Society
The Wise Response Society, a coalition of scientists, engineers, planners, artists, and sportspeople, has strongly criticized the Climate Change Commission (CCC) for its continued focus on growth despite the undeniable link between growth and increased ... More >>
Post-Cyclone Inquiry Should Include Limits To Growth
Monday, 27 February 2023, 10:40 am | The Wise Response Society
Wise Response Society says the Government’s infrastructure planning inquiry, post-cyclone Gabrielle, must heed limits to growth and planetary-boundary overshoot. “Prime Minister Hipkins correctly identifies deficiencies in past infrastructure decisions,” ... More >>
Emissions Reduction Plan Falls Well Short
Monday, 29 November 2021, 6:03 am | The Wise Response Society
‘ The overall emissions budget proposed by the Ministry for the Environment is not nearly ambitious enough,’ says Chair of the Wise Response Society, Prof. Liz Slooten. ‘The IPCC requirement to keep global warming to 1.5ºC by 2030 means a ... More >>
Recent Climate Reports Underscore Genuine Emergency
Friday, 29 November 2019, 6:37 pm | The Wise Response Society
The Wise Response Society is anxious the underlying message in a suite of recent reports about the evolving climate crisis is fully recognised and heeded. While the New Zealand Government has been making big efforts to address national climate risks, ... More >>
Academics urge united response to achieve 1.5°C limit
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 8:20 pm | The Wise Response Society
Academics urge united response to achieve 1.5°C limit The IPCC's long anticipated report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees C says that Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate and ... More >>
Report implementation urgent to salvage Mackenzie Basin
Monday, 26 February 2018, 2:08 pm | The Wise Response Society
Report implementation urgent to salvage Mackenzie Basin values The Wise Response Society endorses the recommendations for urgent implementation of the specially commissioned Mackenzie Basin Agency Alignment Report by independent consultants John Hutchings ... More >>
NGO Climate Action Plan Gains Huge Support
Friday, 8 September 2017, 4:31 pm | The Wise Response Society
Media release from Wise Response Society Inc. Alan F. Mark, Chair. Endorsement by 328,411 kiwis is evidence people realise that achieving the many promises being made, in the lead up to the election, are all subject to restabilising the climate. "It's ... More >>
Government’s Big Spendup to Prolong Our Carbon Party
Monday, 12 June 2017, 2:14 pm | The Wise Response Society
Government’s Big Spendup to Prolong Our Carbon Party Alan Mark and Dugald MacTavish of Wise Response Society ask how much practical difference there is for climate change between USA's withdrawal from the Paris Accord and New Zealand's current policies? More >>
Gen Zero climate legislation gets Wise Response endorsement
Thursday, 30 June 2016, 2:16 pm | The Wise Response Society
The Wise Response Society strongly supports the proposal by GenZero to write a Zero Carbon Act themselves. More >>
Society Applauds Proposed NZ-Wide Risk Assessment
Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 2:40 pm | The Wise Response Society
The Wise Response Society is heartened to see that Labour' just released Climate Change policy includes formal support for the Society's call for a New Zealand-wide Risk Assessment. The Green Party has also formally acknowledged support for the Wise ... More >>
