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Geoffrey Miller’s Analysis – New Zealand’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine

December 4, 2023

Analysis by Geoffrey Miller – Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz) New Zealand’s international relations are under new management. And Winston Peters, the new foreign minister, is already setting a change agenda. As expected, this includes a more pro-US positioning when it comes to the Pacific – where Peters will be picking up where he left off. Peters sought ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Analysis – New Zealand’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/04/geoffrey-millers-analysis-new-zealands-foreign-policy-resets-on-aukus-gaza-and-ukraine/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Analysis – New Zealand’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine">Read more</a>

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Geoffrey Miller Analysis – New Zealand’s strategy for COP28 in Dubai

November 24, 2023

Analysis by Geoffrey Miller – Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz)   The COP28 countdown is on. Over 100 world leaders are expected to attend this year’s UN Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which starts next Thursday. Among the VIPs confirmed for the Dubai summit are the UK’s Rishi Sunak and Brazil’s Lula da ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller Analysis – New Zealand’s strategy for COP28 in Dubai" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/24/geoffrey-miller-analysis-new-zealands-strategy-for-cop28-in-dubai/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller Analysis – New Zealand’s strategy for COP28 in Dubai">Read more</a>

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OP-ED: Can Asia and the Pacific get on track to net zero? – Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana

November 30, 2022

OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP. The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the table currently is insufficient to avert some of the worst ... <a title="OP-ED: Can Asia and the Pacific get on track to net zero? – Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/30/op-ed-can-asia-and-the-pacific-get-on-track-to-net-zero-armida-salsiah-alisjahbana/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Can Asia and the Pacific get on track to net zero? – Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana">Read more</a>

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Australia’s ‘independent day’ looms as voters reel from a ‘gutful’ of politics

May 16, 2022

SPECIAL REPORT: By Kalinga Seneviratne When Australians go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new government, the vast continent which was stolen from the indigenous people in 1788 and annexed to the British crown may have its “independent day” — not one that would declare itself a republic, but a day when independent ... <a title="Australia’s ‘independent day’ looms as voters reel from a ‘gutful’ of politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/16/australias-independent-day-looms-as-voters-reel-from-a-gutful-of-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s ‘independent day’ looms as voters reel from a ‘gutful’ of politics">Read more</a>

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LIVE@Midday Thurs: Buchanan + Manning on COP26 plus New-Gen Attack Drones

November 3, 2021

A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss two issues: the evolution of new generation attack drones; and the COP26 meeting in Glasgow this week. Specifically, Buchanan and Manning will unpack: Whether Geopolitics has railroaded a broad-based consensus of climate interventionism. Why Russia and China abandoned the Cop26 multilateral forum?

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‘Existential threat to our survival’ – see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing

February 26, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Dana M Bergstrom, University of Wollongong; Euan Ritchie, Deakin University; Lesley Hughes, Macquarie University, and Michael Depledge, University of Exeter In 1992, 1700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were “on a collision course”. Seventeen years later, scientists described planetary boundaries within which humans and other life could have a ... <a title="‘Existential threat to our survival’ – see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/26/existential-threat-to-our-survival-see-the-19-australian-ecosystems-already-collapsing/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Existential threat to our survival’ – see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing">Read more</a>

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NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’

November 1, 2020

By RNZ News Green Party delegates have voted to accept a deal with Labour which will give it two ministerial portfolios outside of cabinet in the New Zealand government. Consensus was blocked, so the party required 75 percent of delegates to get the deal across the line this evening. Labour offered the Green Party the ... <a title="NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/01/nz-greens-accept-labours-offer-for-cooperation-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’">Read more</a>

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UN Op-Ed – Healthy oceans: keeping Asia and the Pacific afloat

May 13, 2020

Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana – United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCAP. Memories of idyllic beaches and sonorous waves may seem far away while we remain at home. Yet, we need not look far to appreciate the enduring history of the ocean in Asia and the Pacific. For generations, the region has thrived ... <a title="UN Op-Ed – Healthy oceans: keeping Asia and the Pacific afloat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/un-op-ed-healthy-oceans-keeping-asia-and-the-pacific-afloat/" aria-label="Read more about UN Op-Ed – Healthy oceans: keeping Asia and the Pacific afloat">Read more</a>