The Spinoff: “Our Inconvenient Truth: New Zealand’s Climate Change Shame”
New Zealand has got to do the hard yards on its greenhouse gas emissions.
New Zealand has got to do the hard yards on its greenhouse gas emissions.
Continuing in our very popular Migrant Tales series – first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand. Today’s tale was sent in by an American stuck in New Zealand. They live in Wellington and say the natural environment is awesome but say they’re shocked by the terrible salaries, abysmal housing stock and the climate…
Read any New Zealand based report about this year’s United Nation’s HDI results and you’d miss that fact that New Zealand has fallen in the rankings for consecutive years since it peaked in 2010. Instead you’d be forgiven, if you read the New Zealand media, for thinking that ninth place is as good as first…
Save the Children has been releasing an annual report every year since 2000, its about the best and worst countries for mothers. Since then, New Zealand has been included in the top 10 best countries for moms just six times – the last time was 2012. What’s more, this decline is being reflected in demotions…
The annual OECD Better Life Index has just been published. It lists eleven variables to allow individuals to construct their own index based on what’s important to them. Construct your own index here http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org. Take all eleven variables in equal measure and what do you get? A list of 36 countries that can be ranked…
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