(Cover image credit: Calm the Farm)On this website, I have written how the hydroxyl radical, derived from water vapour in the presence of ultraviolet light (UV), oxidises methane. This is simplified but essentially correct, but I went on to claim that the quantum of hydroxyl radicals produced in a pastoral setting is sufficient to oxidise … Continue reading Methane, did I get it wrong?
In September 2025 the Food and Land Use Coalition published Re-WIRE Agri-Food Value Chains. The report presents a framework to map risks and opportunities across major commodity value chains (e.g. beef, soy, cocoa), showing how climate, regulatory, financial, and human rights pressures are reshaping agrifood systems, and offering pathways for more resilient, regenerative supply chains. … Continue reading Agri-Food value chains
Do you get the feeling that we have all the technical fixes we need, either at our fingertips or in the pipeline to heal the climate - but we just can't get it together? While some of us are beavering away trying to do the right thing, there are others in the world killing, lying, … Continue reading The inner development goals
There is a big hole in climate discourse. Mitigation policy is focussed almost entirely on greenhouse gases (GHGs) ignoring opportunities to cool the panet by increasing vegetation. A paper from the Earth's Future Journal, A Century of Reforestation Reduced AnthropogenicWarming in the Eastern United States identifies that increased levels of reforestation in the Eastern US … Continue reading MOre evidence for local cooling
First Published at NIC by Martin Knoche In this blog I will share lessons learnt from Scandinavia in terms of looking after all of their people, including their indigenous Sami people. Let’s travel to Norway in the Far North of Europe. Norway stretches 1,750km from the South to the Northern border with Russia near Kjerkenes. … Continue reading Aotearoa Future (Energy) Sovereign Wealth Fund (AFE-SWF)