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 …
Gene Drive GMOs Would Need NZ’s Neighbours to Agree
Monday, July 30, 2018
New Zealand cannot decide to release a “gene drive” GMO on its own without a significant impact on its international relations.
Research into using this new form of genetic engineering …
Gene Drives: Governance Must be International from the Start
Thursday, May 31, 2018
“Gene drive” has been heavily promoted as a “breakthrough” technology for meeting the goal of New Zealand being predator free by 2050.
However even before such a gene …
Carbon Budgeting – Integrated Planning for Climate Action
Thursday, August 31, 2017
A carbon budgeting process is essential to securing serious emission reductions. It takes targets, assesses the options, and describes an overall plan for achieving those outcomes.
The Sustainability Council …
GM Food Production Still a Story of the Americas
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
GM agriculture today is overwhelmingly just four commodity crops: soy, maize, canola and cotton account for 99%. And 97% of the GM food crops produced in 2016 were grown …
Zero Tolerance, Billion Dollar Losses
Friday, June 30, 2017
Growing GMOs before they have been approved for use in export markets continues to result in punishing consequences.
Most of New Zealand’s key trading partners have zero tolerance …
