Reimagining Fuels Resilience, and How To Get It
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
New Zealand is more exposed to fuel supply disruption than comparable countries and urgently needs a resilience plan, yet proposed legislation just tinkers with fuel stocks.
Cyclone Gabrielle has left …
GMO Conversation Needs Good Analysis
Saturday, April 1, 2023
The conversation on GMOs MPI has proposed via a food sector planning process needs to be grounded in good analysis.
The draft Food and Beverage Sector Transformation Plan gives undue …
Open Source Detection Test for First Gene Edited Crop
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Today’s release of an open source test for detecting the first “gene edited” crop is a game changer.
It refutes claims by GMO developers suggesting that new GM foods are …
‘Un-Terminating’ the Smelter, and Unlocking a Manapouri New Deal
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Rio Tinto’s latest threat to close its smelter came with the news that it had terminated its power supply contract – something that had “never been done before”.
However the …
A New Carbon Accounting Unit for Permanent Sequestration
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The creation of a new unit of carbon currency to recognise the permanent sequestration of greenhouse gases would provide a clear way for exporters to meet international standards for …
Market Pressures for Pastoral Products to go Carbon Neutral
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Pastoral agriculture faces converging challenges that collectively make sharp rises in environmental standards inevitable.
These pressures are combining to push market expectations towards animal protein products being fully carbon …
Twenty-two years on, GM foods still a story of commodity crops and the Americas
Monday, December 17, 2018
Twenty two years after GM cropping began to take off in the US, GM agriculture remains a story of just four commodity crops – soy, maize, canola and cotton …
New Scientist: How should we control the power to genetically eliminate a species?
Friday, October 12, 2018
The power to re-engineer or eliminate wild species using a “gene drive” needs to be brought under international governance, say Simon Terry and Stephanie Howard
Commentary, New Scientist.
Thanks to a form of genetic …
A Constitutional Moment – Gene Drive and International Governance
Monday, July 30, 2018
Research into gene drives – a new form of genetic engineering to wipe out pests – has had a lot of attention, but there has been scant recognition that …
