Markets: Analysis
NZUs trade in smalls at $6.55
26 Mar 2015
It's a Mexican standoff - plenty of buyers at $6.40 and below and potentially enough supply at $7 and above. OMFinancial reports:
Stability is what we need
25 Mar 2015
We are hearing that some buyers, or representatives of buyers, are complaining to the Government about the illiquidity in this market, and the fact they cannot get set. OMFinancial reports:
Buyers starting to queue
24 Mar 2015
Carbon traded at $6.50 yesterday, with on-going bidding interest at $6.45 and little offering interest about. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs remain firm
23 Mar 2015
Carbon closed at $6.47 on Friday, after trading at $6.40. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs move higher
20 Mar 2015
NZUs closed at $6.55 yesterday as buyers came in late. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs quiet at $6.45
19 Mar 2015
A quiet day for NZUs yesterday, with the market closing on CommTrade at $6.45. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs hold around three-year highs
18 Mar 2015
Carbon traded between $6.35 and $6.47 yesterday on good volumes, with both small and large players in the market. OMFinancial reports:
A quiet start to the week
17 Mar 2015
NZUs traded smalls at $6.50 and closed at $6.45 yesterday on CommTrade. OMFinancial reports:
The long march continues
16 Mar 2015
NZUs closed at $6.45 on Friday - the highest traded price since June 2012. OMFinancial reports:
Leave the market to do its job
12 Mar 2015
Spot NZUs closed at $6.35 yesterday. OMFinancial reports:
Next stop $6.50
11 Mar 2015
NZUs traded up to $6.25 yesterday on 30k, and it appears most sellers are passing-the-parcel, which suggests prices are going higher. OMFinancial reports:
Sellers few and far between
10 Mar 2015
NZUs traded up to $6.20 on $70k yesterday as some emitters started to step into the market and mop up small sellers. OMFinancial reports:
NZ carbon prices hold in $6 range
9 Mar 2015
A quiet day for carbon on Friday, with the market fixing at $6.22. OMFinancial reports:
NZ carbon consolidating around $6
6 Mar 2015
Spot NZUs traded at $6.10 yesterday as small offers hit the bid. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs edge up
5 Mar 2015
We closed at $6.25 yesterday as the market slowly grinds higher. OMFinancial reports:
Next stop $7?
4 Mar 2015
We closed at $6.15 yesterday, with no change in our view. OMFinancial reports:
Won't take much for market to move higher
3 Mar 2015
We closed at $6.05 yesterday with the bid starting to build and not much on the offer. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs holding range, but likely to rise
2 Mar 2015
Carbon finished the week at $5.90. OMFinancial reports:
Market might go higher
27 Feb 2015
NZUs traded up to $5.90 yesterday and closed the bid there. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs cheap at $5.86
26 Feb 2015
NZUs are consolidating below $6 and are good buying down here. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs continue in the high $5s
24 Feb 2015
Carbon traded in smalls yesterday, with “rats and mice” volume changing hands at the end of the day. OMFinancial reports:
Market remains well supported
18 Feb 2015
Spot NZUs are trading in smalls within a band of $5.90–$6.10. OMF reports:
NZ firm, but Europe bullish
16 Feb 2015
NZUs continue to grind away, closing the week $5.90/$6.00. OMFinancial reports:
Our universities get a D for divestment
16 Feb 2015
New Zealand universities are among the worst in the world when it comes to divestment from fossil fuel investments, a new report says.
NZ carbon still light in volume
12 Feb 2015
Spot carbon traded 15k at $5.95 at the end of the day yesterday, with the market closing $5.95/$6.00. OMFinancial reports:
Market liquid and steady, but slow
11 Feb 2015
Carbon continues to move sideways, holding around the $6 mark. OMFinancial reports:
Iwi leaders lose climate change champion
9 Feb 2015
One of New Zealand’s most influential leaders on climate change has died.
NZU trade light, but volume expected to pick up
9 Feb 2015
Spot NZUs closed last week quietly, with no trading on Thursday. OMFinancial reports:
Spot NZUs range-bound
4 Feb 2015
NZUs continue to move sideways, with the market still holding $6.00-$6.10. OMFinancial reports:
Risk skewed to the upside
2 Feb 2015
Spot NZU closed the week with 3k trading at $5.95. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs likely to close January around $6
30 Jan 2015
NZUs remain in a tight range around $6, with relatively good buying interest on any dips below the round number. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs remain steady
28 Jan 2015
NZUs continue to remain a $5.85/$6.05 market, with no volume changing hands this week to-date.
Carbon prices hit two-year high
27 Jan 2015
New Zealand carbon is at its highest price in more than two years.
It's time to take a good look at ourselves ...
27 Jan 2015
By editor ADELIA HALLETT.-This year, I’m putting my money where my mouth is.
NZUs trade at $6
22 Jan 2015
Spot carbon traded at $6.00 yesterday, with a total of 20k transacting from our desk. OMFinancial reports:
New Zealand carbon starts the year on a rise
20 Jan 2015
The spot NZU market has opened the year firm, with spot NZUs trading a range of $6.00 - $6.50. OMFinancial reports:
Spot NZUs hold the mid $5s
17 Dec 2014
NZUs seesawed yesterday, opening at $5.40, dipping to $5.25, then climbing to $5.55, before closing at $5.50. OMFinancial reports:
Spot NZUs hit two-year high
15 Dec 2014
Carbon ended the week slightly down, though prices remain above $5 with spot NZUs closing at $5.40 on CommTrade. OMFinancial reports:
Spot NZUs hold at $5
9 Dec 2014
Spot NZUs traded between $4.85 and $5.05 yesterday on about 17k. OMFinancial reports:
Spot NZUs maintain recent highs
8 Dec 2014
Spot NZUs closed Friday at $4.95 on volumes of just over 100,000 tonnes, a rise of 50 cents. OMFinancial reports:
Spot NZUs track higher
3 Dec 2014
NZUs traded higher again, opening at $4.85, trading down to $4.80 and closing back up at $4.85; 18k volume on the day. OMFinancial reports:
Mighty River contests paying for carbon units
1 Dec 2014
MightyRiverPower has claimed in the High Court that it shouldn’t have to pay for carbon units issued for years prior to the start of its contract with New Zealand Carbon Farming in 2013, which it entered as part of its effort to offset emissions from electricity generation.
Spot NZUs jump
1 Dec 2014
New Zealand carbon jumped 20 cents on Friday; spot NZUs closed $4.55 bid on CommTrade with about 40K volume. OMFinancial reports:
Slight move on spot NZUs
28 Nov 2014
Carbon edged up a little yesterday, to close up 5 cents to $4.32. OMFinancial reports:
Spot NZUs remain quiet
25 Nov 2014
Carbon was quiet again today and the quotes in the market drifted a little wider than usual. OMFinancial reports:
NZUs bubble at $4.30
24 Nov 2014
We continue to bubble around $4.3,5 with not much pushing it either way at present. OMFinancial reports:
Pacific climate response in question as NZ finance remains unclear
19 Dec 2025
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.
NZ hydrogen regulation to catch up with the world
18 Dec 2025
By Pattrick Smellie | The government has announced a regulatory reset for New Zealand’s emerging clean tech hydrogen sector.
State-owned farmer drives profit growth with emissions reductions
19 Dec 2025
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.
Transport dominates NZ’s rising consumer emissions
10 Dec 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Transport pollution was the biggest contributor to an increase in New Zealand’s consumption-based emissions in 2023, with emissions from household travel up 12%, and consumption-based emissions totalling 58.3 million tonnes – up 1.6% from the previous year.
NZ could become ‘dumping ground’ for dirty vehicles: Commissioner
16 Dec 2025
By Liz Kivi | Simon Upton, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, has warned the Government that its changes to the clean car standard could turn the country into a dumping ground for high emitting cars, making future emissions budgets harder to achieve.
Uncertainty eroding confidence in forestry sector
5 Dec 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Warnings are mounting that tree planting is set to plunge to “very close to zero”, as new Ministry for Primary Industries data shows ETS registration applications falling sharply as confidence in forestry declines.
Investors must support positive climate-tech
28 Nov 2025
OPINION: We need better leadership than the current ‘climate opportunism’ that is rife in the Beehive, and we need to back a marketplace that will make it happen, writes Rob Campbell.
