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		<title>What’s at Risk if GMO Regulation Goes Light?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand’s unusual degree of exposure to the economic risks posed by GMOs is the first signal that well founded regulation of their outdoor use is needed.  GMOs are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Carbon Accounting Unit for Permanent Sequestration</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 offsetting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market Pressures for Pastoral Products to go Carbon Neutral</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 neutral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty-two years on, GM foods still a story of commodity crops and the Americas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty two years after GM cropping began to take off in the US, GM agriculture remains a story of just four commodity crops &#8211; soy, maize, canola and cotton &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Drives: Governance Must be International from the Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 02:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“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 drive has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Budgeting &#8211; Integrated Planning for Climate Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Food Production Still a Story of the Americas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zero Tolerance, Billion Dollar Losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 23:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 for unapproved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Food Production Remains an American Inc Affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Howard</dc:creator>
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