Climate law change spanner in the works for Waitangi Tribunal Inquiry
Today 12:30pm
By Liz Kivi | The Government’s controversial changes to New Zealand’s legal framework for climate policy have thrown a spanner in the works for a long-running Waitangi Tribunal Inquiry into climate change.
Seasons greetings for the summer break
Today 12:30pm
The Carbon News team is taking a break over the summer holidays. We’ll be back with more crucial climate coverage from New Zealand and around the world from 26 January 2026.
Pacific climate response in question as NZ finance remains unclear
Today 12:30pm
By Shannon Morris-Williams | With New Zealand's $1.3 billion international climate finance commitment set to end with no clarity on what follows, the Auditor-General says oversight of that funding remains patchy and long-term outcomes are unclear.
Wetlands and biodiversity at risk as mining rules loosen: Greenpeace
Today 12:30pm
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Greenpeace says Government changes to national direction instruments under the RMA paves the way for mining in wetlands and biodiversity hotspots and will expose some of Aotearoa’s most fragile ecosystems to irreversible damage.
State-owned farmer drives profit growth with emissions reductions
Today 12:30pm
By Pattrick Smellie | Government-owned Landcorp, trading as Pāmu, is one-third of the way to meeting its 2031 emissions reduction targets, with five years left to run to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30.3% against 2021 emissions.
CARBON PRICE
Today 12:30pm
Exclusively for subscribers, the Carbon News NZU Index tracks daily movements in the compliance carbon market across multiple trading platforms.
Carbon News publishes ten-year NZU forward curve
10 Dec 2025
Carbon News has published a new ten-year NZU forward curve mapping how carbon prices could evolve through to 2035 under a range of policy and market conditions.
Another auction no-show
3 Dec 2025
Today’s carbon auction failed as predicted, with all this year’s Emissions Trading Scheme auctions failing to attract a single bidder.
Carbon auction tipped to be a non-event
2 Dec 2025
By Liz Kivi | Tomorrow’s Emissions Trading Scheme auction is all but certain to fail, with participants blaming the government for destroying confidence as NZUs continue to change hands on the secondary market at a 40% discount on the $68 auction floor.
Rabobank announces new partnership to generate carbon income for rural customers
1 Dec 2025
Dutch multinational Rabobank has announced it is partnering with a company which specialises in restoring indigenous forests in a bid to generate voluntary carbon credits for farmers through planting on lower-producing farmland.
Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Today 12:30pm
This year's environmental backdrop is familiar: emissions are rising and nature is continuing to decline. But there have nevertheless been bright spots in 2025.
The ecological havens flourishing beneath power lines
Today 12:30pm
Initiatives to foster native wildflowers, grasses and shrubs are turning utility corridors into wildlife corridors.
Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane
Today 12:30pm
The warming impact of hydrogen has been “overlooked” in projections of climate change, according to authors of the latest “global hydrogen budget”.
EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites
Today 12:30pm
EPA has scrubbed references to people’s contribution to rising temperatures from some of its climate change webpages.
Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore and seabirds
Today 12:30pm
Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where fishery managers just passed a new set of conservation rules.
Offshore windfarms enhance function of coastal waters and diversity of aquatic life
Today 12:30pm
Media release | A study conducted by researchers from Murdoch University in Australia and Dalian Ocean University in China has found that offshore windfarms can improve marine ecosystems and diversify aquatic food chains.
CLIMATE CALENDAR
Today 12:30pm
The Carbon News calendar of talks, events, conferences, consultations, and petitions related to climate change.
Community removes 2.6 tonnes of litter from across Lower Hutt
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Media release: Sustainable Coastlines | More than 300 volunteers came together for Clean Up The Hutt on Saturday, removing 31,493 litres of litter from coastlines, waterways, and underwater sites across nine locations in Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai Lower Hutt.
Three Greenpeace activists removed by police from Fonterra
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Media release | Three Greenpeace activists were removed by police from Fonterra’s downtown Auckland offices, following a protest on Monday at the Shareholders’ Fund meeting over the corporation’s role in the contamination of rural communities’ drinking water.
Westpac NZ announces partnership to form Blue Economy hub in Nelson
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Media release | Westpac NZ has announced a new three-year partnership with the Nelson Regional Development Agency and Kernohan Engineering to help accelerate the development of a sustainable marine economy – also known as the blue economy.
