Lake Onslow pumped hydro consortium secures funding for consent push
Fri 26 Jun 2026
By Oli Lewis | The consortium behind Lake Onslow pumped hydro has secured funding to finalise its resource consent application, aiming to lodge it under the fast-track process before 2027.
Labour won't scrap RMA replacement laws: Hipkins
Fri 26 Jun 2026
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins says New Zealand needs to move beyond the "repeal and replace" approach to resource management, confirming the party would amend rather than scrap the Government's RMA reforms, if elected.
Commissioner ‘unconvinced’ LNG is the best dry-year solution
Fri 26 Jun 2026
By Liz Kivi | The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has told the Energy Minister he is “unconvinced” the government’s proposed LNG import terminal is the best ‘dry year’ solution for the country, and criticised the Government’s “extremely limited” options analysis.
'Not enough': Pressure mounts to scrap conservation bill despite Potaka retreat
Fri 26 Jun 2026
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Conservation Minister Tama Potaka's walkback of a proposal to allow the sale of public conservation land has failed to quell opposition, with environmental groups and the Green Party saying the Conservation Amendment Bill should be scrapped entirely.
Media round-up
Fri 26 Jun 2026
In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: the UK Government is questioning whether New Zealand's oil and gas investment breaches its free trade deal; the Infrastructure Commission warns the government to slow down its LNG plans; and Shane Jones has a grim visitor outside the Environmental Defence Society's conference.
CARBON PRICE
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Exclusively for subscribers, the Carbon News NZU Index tracks daily movements in the compliance carbon market across multiple trading platforms.
ETS settings: Minister favours biennial cycle, officials prefer annual updates
18 Jun 2026
By Oli Lewis | The Ministry for the Environment and the Climate Change Minister, Simon Watts, hold differing views on how often emissions trading scheme (ETS) settings should be updated.
NZ biodiversity credits top global rankings
16 Jun 2026
By Shannon Morris-Williams | A New Zealand biodiversity credit project has topped global sales rankings, with Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari accounting for 43% of worldwide biodiversity credit transactions in May and adding momentum to the country's emerging voluntary nature market.
Govt looks to tighten ETS auction supply
12 Jun 2026
By Liz Kivi | The Government is consulting on auctioning fewer ‘pollution permits’ for 2027-2031, a move it says would help meet the country’s domestic emissions targets while also maintaining short-term confidence in the ETS.
‘A shame’: experts on decision to send Govt carbon auctions offshore
10 Jun 2026
By Liz Kivi | Carbon market experts are questioning whether the Government has made the right decision in sending its auctions of carbon 'pollution permits' worth billions of dollars offshore.
It’s too hot in Europe – again
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Europeans are experiencing their second heat wave this summer. One climate scientist called the weather event a “sad inevitability.”
French farmers suffer arid crops, heat-stricken animals
Fri 26 Jun 2026
France's current heatwave is taking a toll on farmers, who are seeing livestock die and are racing against time to harvest cereals without sparking fires in the tinder-dry crops.
Investigation: carbon captured
Fri 26 Jun 2026
In the 1990s, even as they denied the reality of climate change, oil company executives were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses.
Weakening UK net zero policy would damage economy, chief climate adviser says
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Weakening the UK’s net zero policy would disrupt business and damage the economy, the UK’s chief climate adviser has warned.
US, Qatar urge EU to change methane rules, warn of supply risk
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Major energy exporters the U.S. and Qatar urged the European Union on Wednesday to rewrite planned methane emissions rules for oil and gas imports, warning that the policy could disrupt fuel supplies toEurope.
CLIMATE CALENDAR
Fri 26 Jun 2026
The Carbon News calendar of talks, events, conferences, consultations, and petitions related to climate change.
The Reality of Everything: A sold-out symposium at VUW
Thu 25 Jun 2026
Media release: Victoria University of Wellington | What do rising grocery bills, soaring insurance premiums, food producers under pressure, and growing international instability have in common? According to organisers of The Reality of Everything Symposium in Wellington, they are all part of a much bigger story – one that New Zealanders urgently want to understand.
New map highlights mining threat associated with controversial conservation reforms: Greenpeace
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Media release | Greenpeace has launched an interactive online map exposing the overlap between known deposits of minerals the Government has deemed "critical" and the public conservation land that would be easier to sell off and exploit under the Government's Conservation Amendment Bill.
Sustainability profession ‘comes of age’ – but pressure remains beneath the surface
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Media release: Sustainable Business Council | New research shows the sustainability profession in Aotearoa New Zealand has firmly established itself at the centre of business strategy – but ongoing pressures around capability, career pathways and pay are threatening to stall its progress.
Calder Stewart to invest $110m for solar across industrial portfolio
Tue 23 Jun 2026
Media release | NZ’s largest industrial landowner is preparing one of the country’s most significant industrial rooftop solar rollouts, with Calder Stewart set to invest more than $110 million in solar panels and battery storage across its property portfolio.
