Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask

Senior Political Reporter @NewsroomNZ covering climate change, health, energy and violent extremism | DM for Signal | #WearAMask | He/him ✡️📰

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Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation.

What are we going to do about it?
https://t.co/tu1Y1DLNbG

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Kia ora, if you're looking to follow me on a platform not owned by a Seig Heiling fascist, I'm also on @bluesky at the same handle or click through here: https://t.co/IdNP0zxNJX

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Kia ora, if you're looking to follow me on a platform not owned by a Seig Heiling fascist, I'm also on @bluesky at the same handle or click through here: https://t.co/IdNP0zxNJX

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Here are some of the Jan. 6 defendants who received a full and unconditional pardon from Trump tonight:

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Electric vehicle sales cratered in 2024 to barely a third of the 2023 sales level and less than half of the number sold in 2022 – and aren’t expected to return to their previous highs for another two years.
https://t.co/pQhgBCE5tQ

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Reshuffle analysis: While Luxon and Willis are still talking about slashed government spending and last year’s tax cuts, neither seems to have shifted the dial on the economic mood of the nation.
https://t.co/3bUmuEnyGa

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A new @WWFNewZealand / Horizon Research poll, exclusively released to Newsroom, shows even the Government’s own supporters were ‘concerned’ and ‘disappointed’ by its track record on ocean protection and called for more marine sanctuaries.
https://t.co/dM40AvurFu

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Best of 2024: By lowballing the COP29 finance goal, developed countries have undercut global efforts to halt the climate crisis, Marc Daalder writes from Baku. https://t.co/PJB8GmsUny

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Three years on, we now know from the Royal Commission that there was no discussion about ending elimination before Jacinda Ardern effectively announced it.

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Proactively released docs from Oct 4 - when the step system was introduced and elimination abandoned - are remarkably silent on the end of elimination. Either it was discussed verbally or never brought up - would explain muddled comms that week. #nzpol #Covid19 #Covid19nz

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During the #Covid19 pandemic, New Zealand students lost fewer days of school than kids in almost any other country – including Sweden – the Royal Commission found.

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Petrol use was up on last year due to a bit of regional travel but mostly because 2023 only counted emissions from May.

Power emissions were up a lot, despite lower usage. This was driven by a dirtier grid over winter than in 2023 – though CO2 intensity has cratered since then.

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My Household Emissions #Wrapped for 2024:

Total emissions of 9.7t CO2e for two people (plus electricity for a third)

This year, we added public transport, waste and (where available) retail to our figures.

As always, full methodology and more data here: https://t.co/i1ZqLXdQrT

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Air travel made up the vast bulk of our emissions. This was mostly work-related travel (primarily but not solely my trip to Baku for #COP29), but flying back from the US in January produced a big chunk of emissions as well.

Petrol and power were the other two big sources.

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In February alone, New Zealand will set a new Paris emissions target and repeal a ban on offshore oil and gas exploration, Marc Daalder reports. https://t.co/SgoLTwBxuA

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Two key events in February will set the direction of New Zealand’s clean, green reputation for the rest of the year – and perhaps even many years to come.
https://t.co/vl5Vj0FCDu

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Few iwi leaders turned up to a hui in Hawkes Bay to discuss a new deliberative body for Māori which would resist Government policies and speak with a unified voice.
https://t.co/zcYyBPDSEa

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@MattOxlong @nickofnz If I douse you in petrol and someone else comes along and sets you on fire, do I bear some responsibility for the damage?

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Works out to about $26.40 per employee.

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REVEALED: MBIE’s spine-chilling $500k bill for spine-straightening consultants

The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal through an Official Information Act request that the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has spent $500,012 on consultants for posture training and workstation assessments in the last three years.

Commenting on this, regular desk user (self-trained) and Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross, said:

“Here’s one to make taxpayers sit up straight and listen: over half a million dollars has been wasted by one government department alone teaching bureaucrats how to use a desk and chair.”

“The public service can posture all it likes claiming there’s no more fat to be trimmed, but when MBIE’s happy to chuck hundreds of thousands away on posture training it’s taxpayers who are left bent out of shape.”

“MBIE could do with getting their values back in alignment with cash-strapped taxpayers. They can start by sacking the back-alignment consultants, when a few printed-off diagrams stuck around the office would do the same job for a fraction of the cost.”

[Natalie Yang @NatJYang]

@_westerlywinds @CSElmendorf Notable figures based on survey results from Transport for London: support went from ~40 to 60% in *just one month* before vs after the policy, perceptions of traffic reduction went from ~50 to 70%

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Best of the Year: Ministers forged ahead with reinstating offshore drilling despite warnings from officials that it probably violates the European or British trade agreements, reports Marc Daalder. https://t.co/CW6UJYWYcX