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Sean Millar and Adrienne Puckey, A Brief Introduction
to Climate Change and Peak Oil for New Zealanders (updated 18 July
2008)
Sean Millar and Adrienne Puckey have prepared this introduction to
climate change and peak oil for New Zealanders. Although they are not
SEF members, the SEF Management Committee considers that this booklet
is worth your attention. This publication may be copied and distributed
freely, in whole or in part, in print and/or electronic media. Please
cite the source when quoting in other publications.
Hard copies are available from
Sean Millar
18 Lloyd Avenue
Mt Albert
Auckland 1025
for $6 per copy including postage. Cheques to be made out to Sean Millar.
Direct payment details available by email on request, please contact
seanmillar@clear.net.nz.
The booklet is available as two separate PDFs - one with the front
and back covers, and one with the interior text.
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Neil Mander, Crude Oil Prices from May 2004 to May
2008 (24 May 2008).
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Molly Melhuish, Low-carbon household electricity through
synergies with bioenergy (21 February 2008).
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Molly Melhuish, The technology defines the resource
(17 December 2007).
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Peter Read et al, A Sustainable Biofuels Consensus
(17 April 2008).
The Sustainable Biofuels Consensus is the outcome of a four day expert
workshop hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation at its study centre at
Bellagio on Lake Como, near Milan. It was held under Chatham House rules
meaning that - to promote free and frank exchange of views - nothing
said may be attributed to any participant. Consensus means that all
participants agreed on its content, although it does not necessarily
reflect the full views of anyone. In the circumstance of negative publicity
for biofuels, with substantially misinformed media discussion, we devoted
effort to providing a balanced assessment of the food versus fuel debate,
of the question of indirect impacts of biofuels on land use worldwide,
and of the question of carbon debt arising from poorly managed land
conversion. In reality the currently observed negative effects arise
mainly as the consequence of the barriers to trade erected by just those
countries that are imposing biofuels mandates, all of which could be
met by expanded exports of very positive carbon benefit, sugar-cane
based, ethanol from developing countries, using land that is not currently
in food production (and is not rain forest, where sugar cane cannot
grow).
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