Climate Matters

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Climate Matters, an audio version of Lindsay Wood from Resilienz Ltd's Climate Matters newsletter, that gives intriguing insights into climate breakdown and climate recovery. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/pecan-pie/rise-and-shine License code: 9BX3QHXGDPO15DLL

  1. 3D AGO

    CM151

    Front-footing the future intro - A book of its time: “Insuring the Future” - A quiz question - Prime Minister, here’s more “dumb stuff” you shouldn’t be doing - And your Freudian slip, PM, that (almost) flew under the radar - Being hit between the eyes with “Net Zero” - From the “Can you believe it?” file: A new weather word - Mind-boggling: an overabundance of the most abundant gas - Clear the Air podcasts on NZ Trucking Media https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/climate-matters-151 https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/219-tad-patzek https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2026/04/an-ordinary-storm-with-extraordinary-impacts-what-made-wellingtons-deluge-so-intense https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/insuring-the-future-reimagining-home-insurance-in-aotearoa https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/592178/talk-of-relocation-after-string-of-weather-disasters-christopher-luxon-says https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-21/how-nitrogen-fertilizers-changed-the-food-system-part-1/ https://www.tabledebates.org/building-blocks/nitrogen-food-system https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594954/luxon-calls-oecd-warning-on-government-s-lng-plans-load-of-rubbish https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/11/oecd-tells-nz-theres-no-future-in-gas/ https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/methane-targets-special https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/climate-matters-joining-big-dots https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360977914/govt-moves-kill-landmark-climate-court-case-against-big-polluters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZdZJIwGNtc https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5k347-1a90ab2/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr185nx0n9o

    22 min
  2. MAY 10

    CM150

    264 2026 05 11 CM 150 2026 05 03 Put on a jersey before you put on a heater Farewell and thank you to Elbephilarmonie’s “For seasons” – hello to Pecan Pies’s “Rise and Shine” thanks to Uppbeat - The biggest lesson from Artemis II? - “Hoping the ship arrives” isn’t a strategy – Quiz - Minister Mitchell, please explain “complacency” to the PM - The NZ government makes transparency more invisible - A welcome oxymoron: industrial scale regenerative forestry - “From the “can you believe it?” files: US gas price goes negative - Hot energy tip for winter - “CPR for a planet” - a blog recommendation https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a0523d7bff20056c1c5cecd/t/629ff4315f0d4c16f40707b0/1654649906693/RESILIENZ+AND+FRESHFM+LOCAL+BODY+ELECTION+PODCAST+MUSIC+STORY+2022+06+06.pdf https://uppbeat.io/track/pecan-pie/rise-and-shine https://energyandresilience.substack.com/p/hoping-the-ship-arrives-isnt-a-strategy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=563109&post_id=193926856&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2riv9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email https://newzealandenergy.substack.com/p/ceasefire https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/12/govt-gives-briefing-on-cyclone-vaianu-response-full-video/ https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/30/govt-reviews-official-information-act-costs-as-requests-spike/ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/20/hybrid-organ-trees-fungi-union-loblolly-pines-startup-forest-management https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/16/5/1327/7474139?login=false - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46792-w https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/215-chris-keefer https://boereport.com/2025/09/15/us-natgas-prices-at-waha-hub-in-texas-fall-into-negative-territory-2/ https://lylel.substack.com/p/cpr-for-a-planet?utm_source=post-email- https://www.resilienz.co.nz/willful-blindness - title&publication_id=6436140&post_id=191583366&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2riv9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    22 min
  3. APR 26

    CM149

    Beware the “externality” – Externalities and wide-boundary thinking – privatising profits and socialising costs – looking in the mirror – there’s no such place as “Away” – is the PM externalising again? – the politics of externalities – Peak indifference revisited – Surely we can’t extrernalise time – Bean counting and the meaning of life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ745eyky6Q - https://natehagens.substack.com/p/wide-boundary-news-biodiversity-depletion - https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/what-is-the-triple-bottom-line - https://mightyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/chocolates_dark_secret_english_web.pdf - https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-real-price-of-a-chocolate-bar-west-africas-rainforests - https://www.undp.org/africa/waca/blog/crumbling-empire-chocolate - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/590985/fuel-crisis-business-as-usual-luxon-says-but-some-industries-are-struggling - https://energyandresilience.substack.com/p/every-country-in-our-supply-chain?utm_campaign=comment&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=post - https://jessemulligan.substack.com/p/waiting-for-what?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2309718&post_id=190906362&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2riv9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/591028/watch-pm-christopher-luxon-gives-updates-on-fuel-response-plan - https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/methane-targets-special - https://www.wired.com/story/peak-indifference-on-climate-change/ - https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_capital - https://www.bcg.com/publications/2025/investing-in-climate-action

    22 min
  4. APR 12

    CM148

    energy and the economy - minerals and the economy - water and the economy - gravel and the economy - the climate crisis and the economy - “the economy” and the economy https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/climate-matters-148 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xW3oveI8Q1xAjlsliozXTDv5yPfx5OSG/view https://www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-briefing-the-electricity?utm_campaign=email-post-title&utm_medium=email https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/1.%20Simon%20Michaus-Challenges%20and%20Bottlenecks%20for%20the%20Green%20Transition.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKzsjvRVkik https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/588902/moa-point-disaster-exposes-deeper-problems-public-health-experts-warn https://itbrief.co.nz/story/exclusive-sustainability-expert-warns-nz-must-reassess-data-centre-water-use https://economy.ac/news/2025/09/202509279542 https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/climate-matters-146 https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/360475752/nzs-gritty-problem-insatiable-appetite-gravel https://cdn.ymaws.com/concretenz.org.nz/resource/resmgr/docs/conf/2019/s3_p4.pdf https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-insurance-future-capitalism-g%C3%BCnther-thallinger-smw5f/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518268-shift-in-the-gulf-stream-could-signal-ocean-current-collapse/ https://www.bas.ac.uk/news/antarctic-bottom-water-shrinking-warming/ https://www.bcg.com/press/12march2025-economic-case-climate-investment https://www.bcg.com/publications/2025/investing-in-climate-action https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/

    23 min

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Climate Matters, an audio version of Lindsay Wood from Resilienz Ltd's Climate Matters newsletter, that gives intriguing insights into climate breakdown and climate recovery. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/pecan-pie/rise-and-shine License code: 9BX3QHXGDPO15DLL