Froggie24

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"If there is a mining opportunity and it's impeded by a blind frog, goodbye Freddie" Shane Jones. Nature, climate action, climate justice, biodiversity, urban design, walking and cycling, public transport.

Billionaires want us to fight each other so we don't fight them
Graph showing NZ attitudes to immigrants from different countries - attitudes are much more negative to immigrants from Asian countries
Text showing cancelled initiatives in the first Emissions Reduction Plan focused on making clean vehicles accessible to low income families.
Three images of River Tam from Firefly
Graph showing the gap between costs of heavy vehicles and the revenue they provide into the National Land Transport Fund.
Table showing relatively high investment in roads and low investment in rail for NZ compared to comparator countries,.
Infographic showing the ranking of policies in regards to reducing emissions - almost all policies are ranked to have significant risks.
Graph showing expenditure on health by country - the USA is an outlier, spending far more than other OECD countries.
A cartoon showing the father and son from Family Guy sitting in a red car The Father is commenting about the outsize impact the super rich have on climate change.
An excerpt from an article with a graph showing expected emissions reductions from a draft and final plan in red and blue.
Excerpt from article. It highlights how many lives were saved in NZ by our COVID response. 4500 people have died to date, whereas if our death rate had been similar to the USA 23,000 would have died
An image from a report by Chapman Tripp. It shows a world map - countries that have adopted or will adopt climate related disclosure regimes are highlighted in dark and pale green.
a graphic which shows cycle rates increasing over time on a graph and a map with different cycle counters on it in pink andngreen dots.
A graph showing electric vehicle market share. It rises in 2022 and 2023, then falls abruptly from January 2024 due to the cancelling of the clean car discount and introduction of RUC for EVs.
A green table that summarizes key policies and impacts of the transport section of the ERP.
Excerpt from Herald article about lower speed limits including quote by Simeon Brown
An excerpt from the NZIER paper including a graph which shows the massive difference between NZ's actual emissions (trending slightly down) and our Paris target where emissions sharply decrease
An excerpt of text from the NZIER research paper which describes the percentage of funding unfavorable to our climate goals (32.8%), neutral (60.6%) or favorable (1%)
A sign made by a child saying 'stop the fast track' in bright colours
A man holding a sign that says 'fast track = highway to hell' in front of a crowd
a segment of Dame Anne Salmond's open submission on the Fast-Track Bill
Graph shows Public transport patronage over 4 years - 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024. patronage drops significantly in 2020 due to covid lockdowns and in 2023 due to Auckland floods.
A small dead dolphin with a grey body and black flippers and tail. it is being held so you can see a major cut on its back.
excerpt from a newspaper article. Quote from Dr Ayesha Verrall saying it seems impossible to cut 25% of Ministry of Health staff and not.have an impact on the safety of our health system (summarised)
Purple poster showing a bus and saying 'public transport is the only option for some. Stop the war on public transport!'
Graph showing maximum and minimum funding ranges for key activity class groupings over successive GPS.
A table showing funding ranges for different transport modes in the GPS. There are significant cuts in funding for rail, walking and cycling and public transport infrastructure and a significant increase in funding for state highways and pothole prevention funds.