ETS review panel wants YOUR input

11 Mar 11 - The Emissions Trading Scheme review panel wants to know how the scheme is affecting businesses, households, farmers, foresters and Maori.

Caygill crew meets business leaders

11 Mar 11 - The committee reviewing the Emissions Trading Scheme has already met with some of the country’s most influential bodies as it works towards its June deadline.

No special deals for NZ, Australian climate officials say

12 May 09 - Australian officials warned the emissions trading scheme review committee yesterday that were no special deals for New Zealand if it sought to align itself with the Australian carbon pollution reduction scheme.

Air NZ wants carbon price cap in ETS

12 May 09 - Air New Zealand wants the emissions trading scheme review committee to consider including a price cap for carbon liability.

Landfill operator wants ETS delay for waste

8 May 09 - Delaying the solid waste sector’s entry into the emissions trading scheme until 2018 and increasing the scope of the existing environmental standard for landfill gas is the way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from New Zealand’s landfills, Envirowaste told the ETS review committee yesterday.

R&D vital to success of ETS, says Landcare

8 May 09 - Investment in research and development, particularly in New Zealand-specific climate change research, is pivotal to the success of an emissions trading scheme, Landcare Research has told the ETS review committee.

Forest focus wrong, institute tells ETS hearing

28 Apr 09 - New Zealand should focus on the role that forests play in mitigation of climate change - and not just on forestry emissions, says the Institute of Forestry.