http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/04/speech-groser-climate-change-trade-agriculture/ Scoop Media Business Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:05:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/04/speech-groser-climate-change-trade-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-2181 New Zealand was a friend to Middle Earth, but it’s no friend of the earth « TBJV Vineyard Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:11:47 +0000 http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/04/speech-groser-climate-change-trade-agriculture/#comment-2181 [...] After extolling the country’s green credentials, it asks: “Have you landed in a dreamland?” Well, UNEP’s reporter certainly has. He cheers New Zealand’s “global leadership in tackling climate change“, when the country’s minister in charge of climate negotiations, Tim Groser, has been busy reassuring his compatriots that “we would not try to be ‘leaders’ in climate change.” [...] [...] After extolling the country’s green credentials, it asks: “Have you landed in a dreamland?” Well, UNEP’s reporter certainly has. He cheers New Zealand’s “global leadership in tackling climate change“, when the country’s minister in charge of climate negotiations, Tim Groser, has been busy reassuring his compatriots that “we would not try to be ‘leaders’ in climate change.” [...]

]]> http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/04/speech-groser-climate-change-trade-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-2180 Middle Earth no friend of the earth | The Guardian World News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:23:28 +0000 http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/04/speech-groser-climate-change-trade-agriculture/#comment-2180 [...] After extolling the country’s green credentials, it asks: “Have you landed in a dreamland?” Well, UNEP’s reporter certainly has. He cheers New Zealand’s “global leadership in tackling climate change”, when the country’s minister in charge of climate negotiations, Tim Groser, has been busy reassuring his compatriots that “we would not try to be ‘leaders’ in climate change.” [...] [...] After extolling the country’s green credentials, it asks: “Have you landed in a dreamland?” Well, UNEP’s reporter certainly has. He cheers New Zealand’s “global leadership in tackling climate change”, when the country’s minister in charge of climate negotiations, Tim Groser, has been busy reassuring his compatriots that “we would not try to be ‘leaders’ in climate change.” [...]

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