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Climate explained: how emissions trading schemes work and they can help us shift to a zero carbon future
Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer questions about climate change. Motu's Catherine Leining was asked: Would you please explain how the New Zealand Emissions Trading…
Coverage of housing prices and migration paper
Population growth pushes up house prices but the share of migrants doesn't, our media release about the new research from Dean Hyslop, Trinh Le, Dave Maré and Steve Stillman was picked up by the following…
Why GDP is no longer the most effective measure of economic success
As a macroeconomic indicator, GDP fails to capture much of the value created in the modern world. New metrics promise to track everything from happiness to natural capital. Motu's Arthur Grimes talks about happiness and…
A first step to pricing agricultural emissions
Catherine Leining explains why pricing agricultural emissions can begin sooner at the processor level, before transitioning to the farm level here at Newsroom.
The race to carbon zero
Governments around the world are trying to tackle climate change, what Jacinda Ardern has called her generation’s nuclear-free moment. But do New Zealand’s plans live up to the hype, and what are the stakes at…
Emissions across the economy – Expert Reaction
Our Lynn Riggs comments to the Science Media Centre about the release of Stats NZ's latest environmental-economic accounts report which sums up the changes to greenhouse gas emissions across industry and households between 2007-2017. Emissions from industry…
Zero Carbon Bill could resolve hard climate change issues and give business certainty needed to invest in transformation
interest.co.nz gives our Catherine Leining a platform to discuss the Zero Carbon Bill. "So far, much of the public discussion around the Zero Carbon Bill (ZCB) has focused on what proposed emission reduction targets mean for…
New Human Rights Data Portal Coverage
Some amazing coverage from media around the world about HRMI’s new data that was released on Friday (NZ time). Check out the articles: Vox - Human rights in the US are worse than you think TVNZ: NZ’s disabled…
Motu researchers on the wellbeing budget
Arthur Grimes has an opinion piece and Catherine Leining has a hot-take in The Spinoff. Arthur is also mentioned in ABC Australia’s PM, The Canberra Times, DPA International, and the Science Media Centre expert reaction.
Motu researchers on the politics of pandanomics, the perils of fruit juice, the perks of deactivating Facebook, the best time to score, and whether weeds can save the world...
Every couple of months, Motu research analysts provide the articles that have interested them to interest.co.nz Check out this month's list.
