Les Jones is standing in the Mangere electorate in the 2020 Elections. He is the only candidate fielded by Climate First.His nomination was approved at the AGM and 3 billboards have been erected on Coronation Rd, Massey Rd and Favona Rd. Other campaigning has been put on hold due to Covid level three restrictions, but things are beginning to start up again from 31st August when Auckland reverts to level 2. Voters can only vote for Les as a candidate; Climate First is only an unregistered party, which means that it has no list but the party name appears alongside his name on the ballot form.
Why the Climate First Party and why our policies
The world continues to fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at all. Everyone knows... more
How to Solve Climate Change - a logical plan April 2019 This plan promotes two fundamental ideas: firstly, that we specify an exact year-by-year gross emissions reduction pathway for New Zealand, called the Required Emissions Reduction Pathway (RERP)...more
Sheep emit more than you think
A Complete List of NZ emissions by sector and subsector April 2019
Having trawled through the 2018 NZ GHG Inventory for hours, I have finally come up with a ranked list of emitters. The one surprise is for sheep farming, which is in third place after dairy and transport
Extinction Rebellion is dreaming if it thinks New Zealand can get to zero emissions by 2025
The group Extinction Rebellion has called for New Zealand's emissions to be reduced to zero by 2025...more
problem and its false representation.
Monday 14th May 2018
One of the recommendations from the Productivity Commission's recently released draft paper, The Low-emissions Economy, was the two-basket approach.to accounting for methane..more
New Zealand- our deceptive Paris target
Although new Zealand's Paris Climate Agreement target of "30% below 2005 by 2030", sounds very similar to those of Australia, USA, Canada and the EU, it is in fact far worse and less ambitious...more
Climate first in 2017
Ten steps to a Post-Carbon World
Introduction The Climate First Party
The Climate First party is an unregistered political party which recognises that Climate Change is the most serious problem of our time and that we need to directly confront it immediately to prevent catastrophic disaster in the near ..more
Note on policies
Climate First has been developing policies over the last two years, and because many of our policies are heavily reliant on analysing emissions statistics, changing greenhouse gas measurements in the NZ Inventory, can render our calculations out of date. Several of our major policy essays are based on the 2013 inventory and projections from the second biennial report. The most important change has been in the 2015 inventory, which lowered values for the whole 1990-2015 time series by about 2 Mtns below the 2014 figures. However as both the base 1990 figure and the current 2015 figures have been reduced, our conclusions remain valid. Because Climate First's policies are based on clear principles, small changes in actual values do not change our fundamental recommendations.