Electric cars could deliver $8 billion+ net benefit

6 Nov 09 - The net benefit to New Zealand from comparing no uptake of electric vehicles to the expected market demand is $8.2 billion over a 50 year analysis period.

Green Spaniards here and keen to talk business

26 Jun 09 - Representatives of the technology company that has pushed Spain to the forefront of the global green economy were in the official delegation accompanying King Juan Carlos on his tour of New Zealand this week.

Europe keen to show us how to insulate

26 Jun 09 - The European Commission is keen to acquaint New Zealanders with its new portal designed to share information on building insulation and other methods of reducing energy demands in buildings of any size.

Scientists fear another methane catastrophe

24 Apr 09 - A major spike in the powerful greenhouse gas methane nearly 12,000 years ago wasn't the result of a catastrophic release of seafloor gas hydrates, scientists say.

NZ joins international climate change initiative

17 Apr 09 - New Zealand is becoming a founding member of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, Energy Minister Gerry Brownlie announced yesterday.

Global leaders? We’re not even close, says carbon-footprint pioneer

19 Aug 08 - New Zealand is being left behind when it comes to quantifying its carbon footprint, says enterprise-level carbon-footprint accounting software provider Revolution ID.

NZX will use TZ1 to throw off the shackles and go global

1 Aug 08 - Mark Franklin, the former head of Vector who now heads the NZ Stock Exchange’s thrust into the carbon-trading sphere, knows that simplicity instead of complexity carries the day.

Silicon-fuelled power stations one solution, says NZ scientist

1 Aug 08 - A Waikato University scientist has reached for his periodic table - which shows that carbon and silicon are in the same family - and has outlined what is being applauded as the most cogent argument...

Blind Kiwi musician pioneers battery technology in US

1 Aug 08 - A blind former Maori showband star is making a name for himself as a pioneer of energy conservation in the American state of Nevada.

‘Missing’ greenhouse gas poses problem for government’s information technology thrust

15 Jul 08 - Nitrogen trifluoride is a little-recognised greenhouse gas with a punch many times that of carbon dioxide. It is sometimes rated as 17,000 times greater, and it is an emissions contaminant...

Kiwi scientists eye commercial breakthrough with methane-muncher

4 Jul 08 - Government scientists intend to take to market a methane-consuming micro-organism that they have identified in Rotorua’s geothermal areas and which can flourish in extremely acidic conditions.

Marine leeches provide clues on climate change

18 Jun 08 - Elusive marine leeches in Antarctica are the focus of study on how climate change is affecting vulnerable fish species.

British companies unveil £2bn carbon reduction plans

12 Jun 08 - Britain's largest energy and industrial companies have announced that they are looking at the possibility of implementing a £2 billion plan to capture carbon and store it in caverns.

Holcim researching concrete’s CO2 absorption potential

11 Jun 08 - Concrete’s reputation as a carbon-emissions bad-boy is under review as Holcim enters the second phase of research into the capacity for concrete to absorb atmospheric CO2.

Ace Rentals trialing clean-fuel device already subject to ConsumerNZ doubts

6 Jun 08 - One of the country's car rental firms announced yesterday it is trialing a device which is says is new and cuts nitrous oxide and particulate exhaust emissions. However, it did not say the Consumers...

Kitchen experiment leads to plastic bag recycling breakthrough

6 Jun 08 - A kitchen experiment has led a Christchurch (New Zealand) man to a solution for one of the world’s biggest environmental problems – how to dispose of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag.

Business leaders: ETS fuels delay means incentives needed to buy electric and low-emision cars

6 Jun 08 - Business leaders yesterday welcomed a Carbon News report that Ministry of Transport officials are investigating options for incentives to encourage people to buy low-emission vehicles.

Funding talks underway to start New Zealand electric car industry

5 Jun 08 - EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand could soon be building its own electric cars.

Advisory group looking at incentives for electric vehicle buyers

5 Jun 08 - The Ministry of Transport’s Vehicle Energy and Renewables Group (VERG) is looking at ways of creating incentives for manufacturers to bring significant numbers of electric vehicles into New Zealand.

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