Nine To Noon for Friday 4 August 2023

 

09:05 How do market based carbon pricing schemes work around the world ?

New Zealand's carbon pricing system, the Emissions Trading Scheme, is a central tool in the country's climate change policy. Industries covered by the ETS must give the government a carbon unit for each tonne of emissions they produce. But the ETS has come under scrutiny after the government declined to follow Climate Commission advice late last year, to take action to keep the price of carbon units sufficiently high. The price plunged from nearly $90 to below $40 last month. After the government announced proposed changes to the ETS a fortnight ago, broadly in line with the Climate Commission's advice, the unit price recovered somewhat,  to around $57 dollars. How do market based carbon pricing schemes work around the world ? Ian Parry is an international expert on climate mitigation strategies including carbon markets as Principal Environmental Fiscal Policy Expert in the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department in Washington DC, and about to visit New Zealand.

09:30 Research connects mental health and poor education outcomes as school counsellor shortage bites

A critical shortage of qualified counsellors has prompted the Government to expand the pool of those eligible to fill the positions in its Counsellors in Schools programme. It now includes equine therapy facilitators, Master Carvers, youth workers, creative art therapists and music therapists. The Ministry of Education says most schools already have a counsellor and this rollout is mostly across selected primary and intermediate schools. But it's prompting concerns among qualified counsellors that students will not get the support they need, and could put children at risk.
Meanwhile a recent nationwide study which canvassed every year 9 student between 2013 and 2017 has found those with mental health conditions are significantly more likely to fail exams, or be suspended. Students with any prior mental health condition were 11 percent less likely to obtain NCEA Level 1, and 50 percent more likely to be stood down. Those with any behavioural condition were 38 percent less likely to get NCEA Level 1 and 2.3 times as likely to be stood down. Sarah Maindonald is the president of the NZ Counsellors Association, and Professor Brigid McNeill is a researcher at Canterbury University.

09:45 Asia correspondent Ed White

Asia Correspondent Ed White discusses the mysterious disappearance and shock replacement of a foreign minister which has turned into an embarrassing episode for Chinese president Xi Jinping. Also violence in India's north-east is flaring again between the Hindu majority and a Christian minority group. What is behind this,  and will Narendra Modi, the prime minister, be forced to act?

10:05 Jury researcher pens gripping courtroom drama 

Claire Baylis is a fiction writer and legal researcher based in Rotorua. After 12 years as a law lecturer at Victoria University, Claire Baylis joined a trans-Tasman Jury Research project, and was granted the rare opportunity to attend trials and then interview the jurors about the cases. She says it gave her unique insight into the issues jurors face and how they worked to reach their decisions. In 2021, Claire Baylis was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing at Victoria University, which combined academic research, with a writing project - in her case a novel. What's resulted is Dice, a gripping courtroom drama set in Rotorua told through the eyes of the twelve jurors. The story centres on a case where four teenage boys are accused of sexual offences, after inventing a sex game based on the roll of a dice... 

10:35 Book review: Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan 

Roger Christensen of Unity Books Auckland reviews Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan published by Walker Books

10:45 Around the motu: Diane McCarthy in Whakatane

Diane McCarthy, Local Democracy Reporter with The Whakatane Beacon speaks to Kathryn about the latest news from the Eastern Bay of Plenty. In Whakatane, much loved pohutukawa trees at one of the town's most scenic locations are dead or dying, district councils in both Opotiki and Whakatane are consulting on changing speed limits from 50kmh to 30kmh, and the Trust Horizon Light Up festival is drawing good crowds.

11:05 Police receive a "number of tips" in search for missing Tom Phillips and children

Waikato Police say they have received a number of tips from the public following yesterday's appeal for sightings of a ute linked to missing man Tom Phillips. Tom Phillips and his three children have been missing since December 2021 in the Kawhia area, but there were several sightings of Mr Phillips on Wednesday. Kathryn speaks with  Inspector Will Loughrin.

11:05 New music with Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy celebrates life and music of the late Sinead O'Connor.

11:30 Sports commentator Dana Johannsen

With the Football Ferns' World Cup over, will their history-making campaign translate to increased interest and participation in the game, or will it be a short term sugar rush? Dana also looks at netball, and discusses whether the lack of hype around the Netball World Cup reflects the external challenges netball is facing with the global trend towards investment in women's sport. Is World Netball facing an existential crisis?

11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Kathryn Burnett

Comedians Te Radar and Kathryn Burnett with a few laughs