COP23

Climate change minister James Shaw and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have welcome the climate change commission report. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

NZ urged ‘high ambition’ on climate in Poland. Now let’s see that at home

By Natalie Jones | 17th December, 2018

PHOTO: JASON BOBERG

Rangatahi take the UN… again

They're young, they're hungry, and they're not taking any crap. Waves of rangatahi activists are using the UN to share kaupapa Māori values with the world.

By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 11th July, 2018

A demonstrator dressed as US President Donald Trump waves from a car as he parades with other activists dressed as polar bears during a protest of the action group “No Climate Change” on November 11, 2017 in Bonn, western Germany, where is taking place the COP23 United Nations Climate Change Conference. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Bernd Thissen / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read BERND THISSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

The COP23 climate change bubble needs to burst

COP23, the United Nations Climate Talks in Bonn, Germany is finally over. So what did it achieve for indigenous people?

By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 29th November, 2017

Indigenous youth say ‘pass the mic’ to decolonise COP23 climate talks

Indigenous youth say ‘pass the mic’ to decolonise COP23 climate talks

Kera Sherwood-O’Regan is an Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institute delegate to COP23, the United Nations Climate Talks in Germany, reporting over the three-week conference. This week: she's tired and no one's listening to indigenous people.

By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 15th November, 2017

A demonstrator dressed as US President Donald Trump waves from a car as he parades with other activists dressed as polar bears during a protest of the action group “No Climate Change” on November 11, 2017 in Bonn, western Germany, where is taking place the COP23 United Nations Climate Change Conference. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Bernd Thissen / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read BERND THISSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

Our rating of NZ’s climate target? Not good enough. The heat is now on James Shaw

The Climate Action Tracker reveals the NZ ambition is not ‘fine’ as claimed, writes Bill Hare, a physicist and climate scientist and a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

By Bill Hare | 13th November, 2017

Flooding in the village of Eita, Kiribati, 2015. Kiribati’s future generations are at risk of potentially lethal sea level rise (Photo: Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The COP23 climate talks’ ‘Fijian flavour’ tastes a lot like tokenism

Kera Sherwood-O’Regan (Kāi Tahu) reports on outcomes for indigenous peoples from COP23, the United Nations Climate conference in Bonn, Germany.

By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 8th November, 2017