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New Zealand: Politics

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Voters divided over climate policy and action

2 Oct 2020

New Zealanders are polarised on climate-change policy, putting the two major political parties in a difficult position.

Most parties get a 'fail' on climate and health

30 Sep 2020

Just one political party has policies that comprehensively address the threat climate change poses to the country’s health, a new analysis show.

National promises carbon credits from CCS

21 Sep 2020

A National Government would amend the Emissions Trading Scheme to recognise carbon capture and storage, clearing the way for technology to generate tradable carbon credits.

High carbon prices threaten NZ's low-carbon drive, say miners

17 Sep 2020

Record-high carbon prices risk driving away the very companies New Zealand needs in its push to decarbonise the economy, the minerals sector says.

Govt confirms mandatory climate-risk reporting regime

15 Sep 2020

New Zealand’s largest financial institutions and companies will be the first in the world to face mandatory disclosure of their climate risks.

Carbon forests 'buying our way out of sin', says Simpson

14 Sep 2020

Using carbon credits to meet New Zealand’s emissions reduction target is like trying to buy your way out of sin, says National’s climate spokesperson Scott Simpson.

Biochar golden opportunity for New Zealand, says expert

9 Sep 2020

New Zealand is squandering opportunities to use carbon sequestered under the Emissions Trading Scheme to improve soils, says bioeconomy consultant Dr Michael Lakeman.

If business must disclose carbon debt, then so should we, says Shaw

8 Sep 2020

The Government is trying to find a way to calculate the cost of the country’s likely carbon debt – and is considering using revenue from the Emissions Trading Scheme to buy international carbon credits to help deal with it.

Compulsory climate-risk reporting rules out soon, says minister

4 Sep 2020

The Government’s plans for mandatory disclosure of companies’ climate-change risk should be unveiled before the election.

Construction sector latest focus for emissions cuts

1 Sep 2020

Emissions limits will be imposed as part of resource consents for new buildings under proposals to cut emissions from the construction sector.

Climate commission gives election advice

31 Aug 2020

The Climate Change Commission wants political parties and voters to assess election promises against its set of climate principles.

Antonio Guterres

National climate pledges must be increased well before COP, Guterres tells nations

31 Aug 2020

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has repeated calls for countries to increase their 2030 emissions reduction targets – and to do it soon.

Paper reveals why Govt went ahead with ETS overhaul

24 Aug 2020

Fifteen days into the first covid-19 lockdown, officials told the Government the new $20 price floor in the Emissions Trading Scheme was critical to protecting taxpayers from what the pandemic could do to carbon prices.

Experts investigating companies' climate claims

20 Aug 2020

Investors looking for evidence that companies really are addressing climate risk are hiring outside experts to find it.

The Ranfurly Shield

ON THE BALL: Provincial pride could drive emissions goal

19 Aug 2020

Ranfurly Shield-style competition between provinces could get New Zealanders to finally cut greenhouse gas emissions, provincial local councils say.

UPTON: Coastal retreat the only sensible option

13 Aug 2020

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton is calling for fast, orderly retreat from coastal areas vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

SHAW: Next government all about emissions cuts

12 Aug 2020

Climate policy in the next government will focus on tangible ways to cut emissions, Green Party co-leader James Shaw says.

Native species key to cutting emissions

11 Aug 2020

Restoration of New Zealand’s wild places should count towards the country’s emissions reduction targets, the Government says.

FRIDAY POLITICS: It's a choice of slow or slower

7 Aug 2020

Young protesters are targeting both Labour and National with sit-ins in Dunedin today, saying both have failed to address the climate crisis.

Finance sector essential to adapting to climate change

4 Aug 2020

The Government is being told banks should toughen up on lending for properties vulnerable to sea-level rise and flooding.

Count climate in insurance risk, says Robertson

3 Aug 2020

The Reserve Bank should be required to take climate change into account when assessing threats to the insurance industry, the finance minister says.

Judge Tony Randerson

New law needed for managed retreat, says review

29 Jul 2020

Authorities could have the power to seize land threatened by climate change under a proposed new Public Works Act-type law.

Replace RMA with new law, says EDS

27 Jul 2020

New Zealand's primary planning law, the Resource Management Act should be scrapped and replaced with totally new legislation, the Environmental Defence Society says.

Steve Abel

FRIDAY POLITICS: Ready and willing

24 Jul 2020

In a week that saw the end of the political careers of a Cabinet minister and yet another Opposition MP, a political drama of a climate sort has been playing out in suburban Auckland.

Shane Jones

FRIDAY POLITICS: Enter the Man from the North

17 Jul 2020

Cabinet minister and New Zealand First MP Shane Jones is angry about the long shadow Rogernomics still casts over the people of the North.

Pandemic delays ClimCom's first report

16 Jul 2020

The Climate Change Commission is under pressure from the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic and could be up to three months' late filing New Zealand's first emissions-budget recommendations.

Climate stays with Simpson

16 Jul 2020

Coromandel MP Scott Simpson has retained the climate change portfolio in the latest National Party reshuffle.

Judith Collins

Collins will keep zero-carbon law

15 Jul 2020

New National Party leader Judith Collins says zero-carbon legislation will stay in place under a government led by her, but there will be changes.

FRIDAY POLITICS: We need a power plan

10 Jul 2020

Picture this: you’re a Prime Minister who’s weathered a terrorist attack, a volcanic explosion and a pandemic, and then 10 weeks before you go to the polls one of the country’s largest employers announces it’s pulling out.

FRIDAY POLITICS: Draw your hammer

3 Jul 2020

Climate minister James Shaw is nailing his colours to the mast of the Climate Change Commission.

Shane Jones

Ministers advance with shovels at the ready

1 Jul 2020

Infrastructure minister Shane Jones says New Zealand should be focusing its climate-change action on preparing for the impacts of a warming climate.

AGL links exec bonuses to emissions cutbacks

1 Jul 2020

Australia’s largest domestic emitter of greenhouse gases, the energy provider AGL, is the first major company in the country to link managers’ bonuses to lowering emissions.

Parker whips home third leg of climate trifecta

26 Jun 2020

The third leg of the Government’s climate change legislation trifecta came home this week.

Dr Rodd Carr

Make climate-risk a must, urges Carr

24 Jun 2020

The Climate Change Commission has again told the Government that assessing the climate impact of projects should be mandatory under a new fast-track consenting process.

Good job and well done, says ClimCom

24 Jun 2020

The Government’s determination to overhaul the Emissions Trading Scheme despite the covid-19 pandemic has won praise from the Climate Change Commission.

Auckland, from Bayswater.

Auckland can go big on emissions cuts

23 Jun 2020

Getting rid of rules about housing density and giving incentives for people to use public transport and buy electric vehicles could cut Auckland’s greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, the OECD says.

ACC AIM: We want to lead on climate change

18 Jun 2020

New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation is decarbonising its portfolio in line with the country’s zero-carbon legislation, saying it wants to be a leader on climate change.

Parliament does major job on ETS

17 Jun 2020

Parliament has passed major changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme, bringing agricultural emissions into the scheme and, for the first time, setting a cap on emissions.

New consent panels to OK fast-track jobs

17 Jun 2020

The Climate Change Commission will be consulted about projects being fast-tracked through resource consent as part of the covic-19 pandemic economic recovery.

Rail comes out top of fast-consent work

16 Jun 2020

A sea-level-rise-proof Cook Strait ferry terminal and a host of improvements to the country’s rail service are among infrastructure projects the Government plans to give fast-track consent in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

Todd Muller in the Bay of Plenty

Nats should have done more, admits Muller

15 Jun 2020

New National Party leader Todd Muller has admitted his party should have done more about climate change when it was in power.

Forest owners stay with carbon wait-and-see

8 Jun 2020

Forest owners are adopting a wait-and-see approach to selling units as carbon prices head into record territory.

Carbon prices continue the good-news climb

4 Jun 2020

Carbon prices jumped another $2 yesterday as the market continued to react to Tuesday’s announcements about the Emissions Trading Scheme.

James Shaw

Shaw sings songs of praise for trading scheme

3 Jun 2020

Climate minister James Shaw – who three years ago was calling for the Emissions Trading Scheme to be scrapped – was singing its praises in Parliament yesterday.

Prices jump a dollar on fixed-price news

3 Jun 2020

Carbon prices jumped a dollar yesterday on the back of confirmation the fixed-price option will move to $35 this year.

Govt opposed ClimCom in cash-or-credits case

3 Jun 2020

The Government went against the advice of its own Climate Change Commission in allowing companies to continue to pay money instead of surrendering carbon credits to atone for their greenhouse gas emissions.

Effective carbon price-cap will hit $35 this year

2 Jun 2020

The effective price cap on carbon prices in New Zealand will go to $35 this year.

Biofuel could pull trucks into line, say officials

2 Jun 2020

New Zealand could cut its greenhouse gas emissions immediately by using more biofuels in trucks, officials say.

Cities critical to climate, Wellington tells Govt

26 May 2020

One of the country's largest local authorities says the Government 's plans for urban development are at odds with its programme for combatting climate change.

Simpson happy with his lot

26 May 2020

Coromandel MP Scott Simpson says he’s pleased to have kept the climate and environment portfolios in yesterday’s National Party reshuffle but had no say in the matter.

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Meridian Energy considers green bond offer

Mon 25 Aug 2025

Meridian Energy is considering making an offer of up to $250 million of 6.5 year unsecured, unsubordinated, fixed rate green bonds to institutional and New Zealand retail investors.

Agriculture
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International scientists slam NZ govt's proposed approach to methane

13 Aug 2025

New Zealand's proposed approach to methane emissions has again been attacked by international climate scientists, with a new study saying the attempt to redefine climate target-setting by livestock-exporting countries undermines the transition to a sustainable and equitable food system

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Dry winter pushed up Spark’s emissions

Thu 21 Aug 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Increased use of coal and natural gas to generate electricity in the last year caused a spike in scope 1 and 2 emissions reported by telecommunications operator Spark NZ.

Transport
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Fund for low emissions transport winds up

31 Jul 2025

New Zealand’s Low Emission Transport Fund has officially wrapped up, ending a nine-year programme that put hundreds of millions of dollars towards accelerating the country’s shift to cleaner transport.

Forestry
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Minister of Climate Change Simon Watts

Certainty crucial to emissions cuts – Watts

20 Aug 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says that policy certainty is the Government’s primary lever for unlocking private capital and meeting climate targets, telling a carbon forestry conference that ETS settings are 'locked' through 2030.

Business
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Speakers at last year's Climate Change and Business Conference

Why climate strategy is now central to business success

Tue 26 Aug 2025

SPONSORED CONTENT: Ahead of next month’s Climate Change and Business Conference, New Zealand businesses are being urged to treat climate strategy not as a regulatory burden, but as a core driver of economic competitiveness.

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