Taupo Climate Action Group - new initiative
Please contact Jane on janehadiadup@hotmail.com if you would like to be involved
Next meeting: Friday 21st October 1pm, upstairs at the Taupō Library – all welcome.
Read MoreTaupō District Council has demonstrated its commitment to helping address climate change, adopting a set of directives and emissions reduction targets at its August meeting.
Read MoreBill outlined how the Regional Council science team is currently summarising all its investigations over last 30 yrs in a technical report.
Read More“CLIMATE CHANGE, WHAT THE COUNCIL IS DOING” All welcome!
Read MoreAll are welcome Thursday 21st July, 5.15 pm at the Acapulco Motel Conference Room, 19 Rifle Range Road
Read MoreFor the Freshwater Policy Review WRC will be implementing the National Objectives Framework (NOF) to enable them to connect the freshwater values of tangata whenua and communities with potential solutions to realise these values. This will support revisions to the RPS and regional plan that align with tangata whenua and communities values, giving effect to Te Mana o te Wai and the NPS-FM.
A one-day Water Workshop was held on 27th May 2022 at the Great Lake Centre, Taupō to get community input about managing the lake catchment and fresh water around Taupō.
Read MoreAgricultural nitrous oxide and carbon emissions would start with a 95% discount, compared to the carbon price under the Emissions Trading Scheme (or ETS). - Stuff reporter Olivia Wannan13:30, Jun 09 2022
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/128893841/farm-bodies-want-sway-over-the-price-of-their-pollution-activists-panned-the-idea Abridged version:
Read MoreWe hope you will come along to hear from Lawrie who has a history with and love for our Taupo catchment and is well known to many here. Agenda
Read MorePresentation to LWAG April 21st 2022. The draft is informed by the valuable feedback provided in early consultation with key stakeholders as well as the wider public. (Received from WRC in March 2022)
Read MoreAn extensive algal bloom throughout much of Lake Rotorua - warning issued by Toi Te Ora Public Health.
Read MorePublic talk on Climate change: science, response and energy, James Renwick and others Climate change, and the response is one of the big global and local problems facing the world today. James Renwick will talk on the subject at Lakes and Waterways, Thursday 17th February at 5 pm, Acapulco Motel, 19 Rifle Range Rd.
Read MoreWaikato Regional Council has received resource consent applications for Contact Energy Limited, New Zealand Education and Tourism Corporation Limited and New Zealand Prawns Limited
Submissions close : Friday 25th March 2022
Read MoreLWAG are planning to host Climate Change scientist James Renwick at our Feb 17th 2022 meeting. James Renwick is current Head of School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. The Key part of the COP 26 final agreement includes the following:
Read MoreWRC’s Sustainable Agriculture Advisor, Bala Tikkisetty, outlines options.
Read MoreCOP26 is on. The Glasgow summit brings together thousands of people from more than 200 nations to accelerate action towards the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
This is where rubber must hit the road on the Paris Agreement — where nations including Aotearoa New Zealand committed to playing our part towards holding global temperature rises to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century, and to ‘pursue efforts’ to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Until now we have collectively failed to deliver.
Read MoreDebate over the reform which will see all 67 local and regional councils' drinking, waste and storm water assets absorbed by four large regional entities as solicited a strong response from TDC and other councils whose feedback is now due.
Read MoreGreenpeace says research released by ESR and co-funded by dairy giant Fonterra excludes the most at-risk rural communities in its investigation into bowel cancer risk from nitrate in drinking water. See more…
Read MoreDue to lockdown level 4 the annual TDC ‘3 Waters’ report was postponed. There is much happening in this core area of business with the proposed DIA reforms (see link below) TDC are currently running a survey which will form part of their feedback to the Government on the reform programme. The survey closes on Wednesday 15 September. See more here…
Read MoreThe Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has been working on the reform of the resource
management system for the past 3 years. It has established that the current law is not
providing sufficient protection for the environment … full Media release and link to response here:
Freshwater farm plans will be mandatory for all farms with 20 or more hectares of land in arable or pastoral use or five or more hectares of the farm in horticultural land use. Also - a cap on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is now in place.
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