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Climate Change News
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23 Jul 2010
Draft energy strategy ‘riddled with holes’
The Government’s draft energy strategy released yesterday for consultation has been criticised by WWF-New Zealand as being ‘riddled with holes and dangerously biased towards mineral extraction’.
New Global Deal on climate change
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Increasing greenhouse gas emissions could be disastrous for people and nature. And we've no time to lose.
The Science
The increase of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere is causing air and sea temperatures to rise. Overwhelmingly, the cause of these emissions is human activity. There will be impacts on our lives and livelihoods - locally and globally - before too long.
What Can We Do?
It is clear we must change our ways and limit global emissions - primarily of carbon dioxide (CO2) - by taking steps like reducing the burning of fossil fuels, and arresting deforestation. WWF works in New Zealand and internationally to encourage people, businesses and governments to make these changes a priority.
A Global Problem
Humanity must reach agreement and ensure GHG emissions peak by 2015 to ensure the Earth's climate is not irrevocably altered.The global community - through the United Nations - is currently negotiating this new treaty, or New Global Deal. Much hope was pinned on the Copenhagen meeting in December 2009, which failed to deliver the final deal but the UN meetings continue with WWF and many other groups keeping the pressure up for the treaty to be concluded and the real work of reducing global emissions to begin in earnest.
