Farmers face heightened solvency risks as climate changes: research
Fri 10 Oct 2025
By Pattrick Smellie | Increasingly volatile weather patterns, higher insurance costs driven by climate change risk and global financial volatility represent risks to New Zealand farmers’ capacity to service debt and remain solvent, according to new research by Christchurch-based research firm Kōmanawa Solutions.
Amnesty International calls for climate visas for Pacific peoples
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Amnesty International is calling on the government to offer dedicated humanitarian visas to Pacifica peoples displaced by climate change, and to urgently reform immigration policies to align with a rights-based approach to climate displacement.
Policy churn ‘bewildering and costly’: Commissioner urges cross-party fix for environmental management
Thu 9 Oct 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton warns that fragmented, stop–start policy and constant law reform are stalling progress on climate, freshwater and biodiversity.
Air NZ inks deal for its first internationally verified carbon credits
Thu 9 Oct 2025
By Liz Kivi | Air New Zealand has committed to buying 8000 tonnes of carbon removals by 2030, in partnership with local native forest investment platform My Native Forest.
$12m climate-adaptation research push to turn plans into action
Thu 9 Oct 2025
The five-year Accelerating Adaptation to Climate Change programme, led by Earth Sciences New Zealand, aims to accelerate action on adaptation to climate impacts.
CARBON PRICE
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Exclusively for subscribers, the Carbon News NZU Index tracks daily movements in the compliance carbon market across multiple trading platforms.
Broker predicts all this year’s carbon auctions will fail
Fri 10 Oct 2025
By Liz Kivi | Marex New Zealand is forecasting that the government will sell no ‘pollution permits’ at the NZU auctions this year, with a significant gap continuing between secondary market prices and this year’s $68 auction floor price.
Will govt’s light touch approach lead to higher carbon prices?
3 Oct 2025
By Liz Kivi | Carbon market watchers are hoping the government’s plan for the electricity sector will eventually lead to higher carbon prices, with the secondary market still trading sideways for the longest time in its history.
Carbon price steady after failed quarterly auction
16 Sep 2025
By Liz Kivi | The carbon price has continued to trade in its familiar moribund range in the high $50s following last week’s failed quarterly auction, with ample supply still trading on the secondary market at about $10 below this year’s $68 auction floor.
No bidders front to carbon auction - again
10 Sep 2025
By Liz Kivi | Today’s quarterly carbon auction was a non-event yet again, making it the third consecutive auction this year with no bidders, with the secondary market price still limping along at nearly 20% below the auction floor.
Nestle leaves climate alliance for dairy emission reductions
Fri 10 Oct 2025
The Swiss consumer goods company previously said its overall greenhouse gas emissions declined 20% in 2024.
Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’
Fri 10 Oct 2025
The first-ever international conference on the contentious topic of “overshoot” was held last week in a palace in the small town of Laxenburg in Austria.
Pakistan's catastrophic floods show why we need just and effective climate finance
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Images of catastrophe flicker across our screens with alarming regularity: parched lands cracking under relentless heatwaves in the Sahel, coastal communities swallowed by rising tides in the Pacific and, now, devastating torrential floods in Pakistan.
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Fri 10 Oct 2025
The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away, a powerful report by the UK’s intelligence chiefs is due to warn.
Solar panel efficiency record broken in big boost for renewable energy
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Scientists in Sydney have smashed the efficiency record for a new type of solar panel.
Climate change could strain GP access, research warns
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Media release - University of Canterbury | New UC research shows the serious effects that climate change could have on New Zealand’s health system, making it even harder for people to see a GP.
CLIMATE CALENDAR
Fri 10 Oct 2025
The Carbon News calendar of talks, events, conferences, consultations, and petitions related to climate change.
Bottom trawling a triple threat to marine environments - new report
Thu 9 Oct 2025
Media release | Greenpeace is calling for urgent action to restrict bottom trawling after a new government report highlights the compounding effects this destructive fishing method has on climate change, habitat degradation and biodiversity loss.
Fix it, don't ditch it: University of Auckland hosts first Repair Cafe
Thu 9 Oct 2025
Media release - Auckland University | The University's first-ever Repair Cafe is bringing students and staff together to give broken items a new lease on life, while promoting a culture of repair and reuse.
Online tool aims to reduce road freight emissions
Thu 9 Oct 2025
Media release | Road freight association Transporting New Zealand are announcing the launch of an online tool that aims to help the industry decarbonise.
