Future Proof (Newsletter)

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Kia ora, welcome to Future Proof brought to you by AMP. I’m Ellen, thanks for joining me this week. Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera). Image credit: Luca Davenport-Thomas via iNaturalist NZ (CC BY-NC 4.0). “When you start to look really closely, it’s really beautiful. When you start to notice it all,” says Zoe Studd, executive director of Mountains to Sea Wellington. “They're just as important as our forests on land.

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Kia ora, welcome to Future Proof brought to you by AMP. I’m Ellen, thanks for joining me this week. Native forests cover about 29% of New Zealand’s landmass, but once extended across as much as 85% of the country. A new proposal to “recloak” Papatūānuku by restoring 2.1 million hectares to healthy indigenous forest over 10 years seeks to create an “enduring carbon sink” that boosts biodiversity and enhances landscape resilience at the same time.

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Kia ora, welcome to Future Proof brought to you by AMP. I’m Ellen, thanks for joining me this week. New Zealand wins the dubious honour of Fossil of the Day on 3 December at Cop28. Image credit: Pacific Islands Climate Action Network. The government’s plans to reverse the ban on offshore oil and gas exploration earned New Zealand the first Fossil of the Day title at Cop28 in Dubai earlier this week.

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Kia ora, welcome to Future Proof brought to you by AMP. I’m Ellen, thanks for joining me this week. As much as 50% of the waste generated in New Zealand comes from construction and demolition, and a decent chunk of it ends up chucked – in landfill or cleanfill. In some places, like Southland, disposal of construction and demolition waste is standard.

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Kia ora, welcome to Future Proof brought to you by AMP. I’m Ellen, thanks for joining me this week. Two billion people, mostly from developing countries, don’t really know the term “climate change”, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication estimates. That’s based on a survey of more than 139,000 Facebook users around the world.