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26/10/2021

“The last, best chance” for humanity to forestall the climate crisis will unfold in Glasgow, Scotland, over the next two weeks. There, the nations of the world will meet for COP26, the 26th annual climate negotiations run by the United Nations.

I’ll be there, reporting for Newsroom on the climate responses of governments, scientists, businesses and other leaders across all aspects of civil society. Each day on Newsroom during COP26, I’ll convey for you the sweep of the global discourse, and issues most important to us in New Zealand.

To meet the costs of this undertaking, we’ve launched a Newsroom fundraising campaign. If you’ve already donated, a very big thank you!

If you haven’t, please consider doing so! Please click on this link: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/donations

Once we’ve met our goal of $20,000, all additional donations will help us step up Newsroom’s climate coverage. We write more about out campaign and plans here: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/newsroom-heading-to-worlds...

As a country, we’ve lots to do to tackle the climate crisis and related aspects of our deep unsustainability; and we have much to contribute to these global efforts on which the fate of humanity hangs.

06/09/2021

The business response to the climate crisis: Vincent Heeringa and I discuss business, the IPCC, COP26 and more...
https://www.podcasts.nz/ipcc-report-rod-oram-on-business-laggards-and-leaders/

This week, Vincent asks Rod Oram to explain the implications of the latest IPCC report for business. Does the stark reality set out in the report change what’s required of the business sector? Or does it simply reinforce what’s already happening? How exactly is business, here and overseas, respo...

29/08/2021

We urgently need Z Energy to develop clean fuels to help us solve the climate crisis. So far, it's excelling at selling takeaway coffees.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/z-energy-needs-to-refuel-its-ambition

Z Energy promised so much but has delivered so little in playing a part in the clean energy transformation NZ needs, writes Rod Oram

13/07/2021

Today was my last session on Radio NZ's Nine to Noon discussing business topics...after 19 years and some 800 episodes. Thank you Kathryn, and Linda before you, for having me on the programme. And a special thanks to you wonderful Nine Noon listeners for inviting me into your homes, cars, utes, tractors and workplaces and being such an engaged audience. I'll be back on Nine to Noon from time to time, particularly on our co-crises of climate breakdown and ecosystem degradation...and business's roles in helping us solve them. Meanwhile, here's the link to this morning's session where I reflect a bit, later in our discussion, on why I do what I do...Ngā mihi nui, Rod
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018803754/business-commentator-rod-oram

Rod talks to Kathryn about Silver Fern Farms' vow to make its meats net carbon zero. Also, the climate commitments of most G20 countries stilll falling short of the UN's 1.5c degree goal.

14/03/2021

Speak out for our future!
I urge you to tell the Climate Change Commission what action you want NZ to take on the climate crisis...by its submission deadline of March 28.
This is utterly crucial. This is the absolutely pivotal year for Aotearoa. Our government, on our behalf, will set carbon budgets, pathways and policies for the next 15 years, based on the Commission's recommendations.
Any hope we have of tackling the climate crisis hangs on our determination to set ourselves big goals...and our ability to deliver them.
The upside is hugely beneficial. The downside is desperately damaging.
This is absolutely our last chance. If we fail to act now, there is no hope left.
If this collective, democratic process fails, then non-violent civil disobedience is the only recourse we have left.
It's easy to tell the Commission what you want...as I explain in my latest Newsroom column..
Speak up for our future, tell the Climate Commission what you think
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Speak up for our future, tell the Climate Commission

Can you spare an hour? For the sake of our future?

15/02/2020

RNZ Concert is a force for creative, economic and social good far beyond RNZ management’s simplistic understanding - Rod Oram’s latest Newsroom column: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/02/16/1033365/underestimating-classical-music

RNZ Concert is an invaluable resource and inspiration for people at home and abroad.

08/02/2020

The Māori worldview of human dependence on nature is gaining wider appreciation...and we're the better for it - Rod Oram's latest Newsroom column:

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/02/09/1022568/a-different-world-view

Over recent years, Te Ao Māori, the Māori world view, has been turning up in more and more traditionally Pākeha places.

01/02/2020

National, apparently blind to vast global changes, still believes it's same old policy prescriptions will eventually make the New Zealand economy sophisticated and wealthy - Rod Oram's latest Newsroom column Party :

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/02/02/1011349/the-man-who-would-be-finance-minister

National's finance spokesperson talks economics with Rod Oram

25/01/2020

As confidence in the competence of governments declines, can business lead on tacking the climate crisis? - Rod Oram's latest Newsroom column: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/01/26/999842/when-will-elite-walk-talk

The Davos forum had a wholesome slogan, but we need structural reform not fine words

18/01/2020

Searching for radical economic and social innovation - Rod Oram's latest Newsroom column:

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/01/19/989562/rod-oram-searching-glimpses

What I should focus on for the final five and a half years of my career as a business journalist?