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Big ag processors coy about govt changing climate policy

Mon 10 Nov 2025

By Liz Kivi | While some economists are predicting that government backsliding on agricultural methane goals could hurt exporters’ access to premium markets, New Zealand’s major processors are remaining tight-lipped over the potential implications.

Conservation Minister Tama Potaka

DOC trims costs and winds down jobs for nature

Mon 10 Nov 2025

The Department of Conservation (DOC) is entering a new phase of tighter budgets and structural change as it winds down the pandemic-era Jobs for Nature programme and reshapes its operations to absorb long-term cost pressures.

Nation-building projects and the energy transition

Mon 10 Nov 2025

By Ian Mason | COMMENT: Last month, the Labour Party announced its first key election policy: to create a ‘New Zealand Future Fund’ to deliver “lasting national value, stronger communities, lower costs, more resilient industries, and opportunities that keep talent and ideas in New Zealand”.

EDS chief operating officer Shay Schlaepfer

Cost gaps in Fast-Track law could silence environmental voices – EDS

Mon 10 Nov 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Environmental Defence Society is warning that flaws in the Fast-Track Approvals Act 2024 could shut out critical conservation input, after legal advice found key statutory bodies can’t recover costs for participating in the process and councils face uncertainty over which costs are covered.

Does NZ's 2035 NDC meet Paris Agreement obligations?

Fri 7 Nov 2025

By Christina Hood | COMMENT: New Zealand’s 2035 Paris Agreement Target needs strengthening, with multiple reasons the 51 to 55% emissions reduction target does not meet our obligations under the accord.

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Markets

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CARBON PRICE

Mon 10 Nov 2025

Exclusively for subscribers, the Carbon News NZU Index tracks daily movements in the compliance carbon market across multiple trading platforms.

Undermining the ETS is poor policy – Mindful Money

Fri 7 Nov 2025

Politicising settings for the Emissions Trading Scheme creates uncertainty for investors at a time when we need clear and stable policy, says Mindful Money's Barry Coates.

Carbon market tanks off the back of Govt’s proposed climate law changes

Thu 6 Nov 2025

By Liz Kivi | Secondary market prices dropped 20% in early morning compliance carbon trading yesterday, as the market woke up to Tuesday’s late-breaking government announcement of proposed law changes to climate policy.

Another hit to market as Govt uncouples ETS from international climate target

Wed 5 Nov 2025

By Liz Kivi | The Government’s surprise move to break the connection between the Emissions Trading Scheme and New Zealand’s Paris Agreement climate target is a brutal hit to confidence in an already moribund market.

Boost for voluntary carbon markets in Watts’ surprise package

Wed 5 Nov 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Voluntary carbon market development gets a solid push in the package of climate change legislative reforms dropped by Climate Change Minister Simon Watts early last evening.

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International

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Leaders of world’s biggest polluters are no-shows as heads of state gather for UN climate summit

Mon 10 Nov 2025

World leaders descending on the United Nations annual climate summit in Brazil on Thursday will not need to see much more than the view from their airplane window to sense the unfathomable stakes.

Canada’s new budget has billions in fossil subsidies disguised as climate action

Mon 10 Nov 2025

Ottawa's new CCS and hydrogen credits extend to 2035, but most of the billions go to oil sands and refining, not clean industry.

EU’s new climate target lines up multibillion dollar boost for carbon markets

Mon 10 Nov 2025

Analysts estimate the EU will buy at least 50 billion euros worth of carbon credits in the 2030s to help meet its emissions-cutting goals.

Central bankers still fail to account for climate tipping points, experts say

Mon 10 Nov 2025

Experts say that while some financial regulators might be aware of the risk of tipping points, beyond which changes become irreversible, most climate economists are not adequately accounting for these risks.

‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?

Mon 10 Nov 2025

After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future.

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News Direct

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CLIMATE CALENDAR

Mon 10 Nov 2025

The Carbon News calendar of talks, events, conferences, consultations, and petitions related to climate change.

University of Auckland sociologist Dr Chris McMillan

Big players dropping the ball on climate change

Fri 7 Nov 2025

Media release | New Zealand’s major sports bodies are lagging behind much of the world when it comes to climate action, says University of Auckland sociologist Dr Chris McMillan.

New Indigenous-led Climate Institute opens at Lincoln University

Thu 6 Nov 2025

Media release | Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki Lincoln University proudly announces a pivotal new chapter in climate resilience with the establishment of the Kāika Institute of Climate Resilience.

UN Body agrees first methodology under Paris Agreement carbon market

Wed 5 Nov 2025

Media release | The UN body responsible for setting up an international carbon market under the Paris Agreement has agreed its first new methodology, which sets out how emissions reductions from a specific project type can be calculated.

Auckland Council toughens up on building in flood risk areas

Wed 5 Nov 2025

Media release: Auckland Council | From Monday 3 November 2025, stronger planning rules take effect in Auckland to better protect people and property from natural hazards.

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