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Arthur Grimes appointed to ERSA Prize Jury

Arthur Grimes has been appointed a member of the six person Jury of the European Prize in Regional Science, also known as the ERSA Prize. ERSA is the European Regional Science Association which has 3500 members…

The ETS is ready to reduce New Zealand’s emissions

So far our Emissions Trading Scheme has been deemed largely ineffectual, thanks to low-integrity overseas credits and low emission prices. Motu’s Catherine Leining believes recent global and local changes mean the ETS can do its…

Edmund Hillary Fellow Anne-Marie Brook

EHF Fellow Anne-Marie Brook is developing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative. Working in her OECD office in Paris in the mid-2000s, Anne-Marie Brook found herself looking for data sets that could help support economic advice to…

The value of patents & their “window on the innovation process”

For tracking the influence and progression of ideas and advances, one tool that has proved to be invaluable is citation analysis – quantifying and examining the previous works that a given scientific paper cites, as…

Emissions Trading and Forestry in NZ

New Zealand is the first, and still the only, country to fully include forest landowners in a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme, the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS). A new paper released today…

How longer term insurance policies could prevent mortgage defaults in the future

Jenee Tibshraeny from interest.co.nz reports on rising sea levels & the 'no insurance no mortgage' dilemma, with response from the insurance companies. "Climate change - when does it get real? When a king tide and cyclone collide…

Emissions Trading Scheme review - reaction

The Government today announced a package of changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) following a review of the system. Catherine Leining, Motu's Policy Fellow, responded in the media: NZ Herald - Brian Fallow: Govt's carbon policy?…

Director role: advice and influence at the highest level

It doesn’t take long for visitors to the office of Adam Jaffe, Director of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, to notice a framed replica of the Nobel Peace Prize on the wall. After letting…

Coverage of Valuing Sunshine paper

The paper discussing the value of sunlight to homeowners was mentioned in: TVNZ Breakfast - Will sunshine change the way we build? at 33.50 RNZ Nine to Noon - Giving sunshine a price tag BRANZ - Assessing a site…

A new approach to emissions trading in a post-Paris climate

We explore in The Conversation how New Zealand, a trailblazer for emissions trading, might drive a low-emission transformation, both at home and overseas. More...