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Carbon prices stick to the upward trail

10 Jun 2020

Carbon prices are pushing on towards $31 today as the New Zealand market continues a bull run.

NEWSFLASH: Carbon hits historic high

9 Jun 2020

New Zealand's carbon market has broken the $30 barrier.

Carbon price sits at record mark

9 Jun 2020

New Zealand carbon is at record prices after five days of trading pushed spot NZUs up 15 per cent.

NEWSFLASH - NZ carbon hits historic high

28 May 2020

New Zealand’s carbon market has broken the $30 barrier.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ...

25 May 2020

Horizons Regional Council is expected to approve its 2020/21 annual plan today, with $175,000 going to assessing the region’s vulnerability to climate change.

Emission trading changes will have to wait

26 Mar 2020

Changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme are in lockdown along with the rest of the country.

Carbon markets will keep the doors open

25 Mar 2020

New Zealand’s carbon markets will continue trading through the covid-19 pandemic shutdown.

Carbon News still coming your way

25 Mar 2020

New Zealand will be under a state of emergency from tomorrow, with all non-essential movement and contact banned.

Carbon prices suffer as global economy sweats

19 Mar 2020

The global economic downturn brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic is hitting carbon prices.

Customers made the call, says new carbon operator

18 Mar 2020

The operator of a new carbon-trading platform says it is responding to demand from its customers.

Quintin Tahau

Transpower moves into carbon trading

17 Mar 2020

Transpower is moving into the carbon-trading business.

Lack of global market hurts offsets investment

13 Feb 2020

The lack of a global carbon-trading market is holding back investment in offsets, a new report says.

ETS proposals bring record carbon prices

28 Jan 2020

New Zealand carbon prices have shot to record levels on the back of proposed changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme.

WANTED: Someone to run carbon-credit auctions

21 Nov 2019

The Government is looking for someone to build and run its new carbon-credit-auctioning platform.

Govt eyes bid limits for carbon credit auctions

15 Nov 2019

The Government is looking at setting a maximum bid lot to stop a handful of entities getting control of the New Zealand carbon market.

Patricia Espinosa

Businesses demand action, says UN climate chief

18 Jun 2019

Businesses are demanding the development of international carbon markets as the world battles a climate emergency, negotiators have heard overnight.

Global carbon markets in the spotlight

17 Jun 2019

Rules governing the development of international carbon markets will be top of the agenda at international climate talks this week.

Could your idea save the world?

27 May 2019

Got an idea to save the world? It might just qualify for support under a new billion-dollar scheme.

NZ drives global nature-first campaign

20 May 2019

New Zealand is leading a push to use nature to avert a climate catastrophe.

NEWSFLASH: $25 price cap on the way out

16 May 2019

THE $25 price-cap on New Zealand carbon will be gone by the end of 2022 and a price floor is a possibility, the Government has just announced. Full details in tomorrow morning’s Carbon News.

Nigel Brunel

Pioneer carbon trader to change hands

20 Mar 2019

The trading house that 10 years ago today handled the first trade under New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme is about to change hands.

Aussies polish off green (but not as clean) Kiwis

8 Mar 2019

It mightn’t be greener, but Australia is cleaner than New Zealand, a new report says.

MARKET REPORT: NZUs $25.05

30 Jan 2019

Spot NZUs opened at $25.05 bid and $25.20 offered this morning, after last fixing at $25.05.

We're about to get funds trading in carbon

16 Oct 2018

New Zealand is about to get a managed funds service based on carbon.

MARKET REPORT: NZUs $25.03

21 Sep 2018

Spot NZUs opened at $24.95 bid and $25.12 offered this morning, after last fixing at $25.03.

Global carbon prices too low, warns OECD

20 Sep 2018

Carbon prices in major advanced economies are too low to cut greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst effects of climate change, says the OECD.

Calls for Government to act as carbon tops $25

31 Aug 2018

New Zealand carbon is trading over the unofficial cap price of $25, prompting new calls for the Government to hedge the country’s looming carbon debt.

MARKET REPORT: NZUs $24.20

16 Aug 2018

Spot NZUs opened at $24.05 bid and $24.35 offered this morning, after last fixing at $24.20.

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18 Jul 2018

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Z Energy sinks $1.5m into forestry credits

10 Jul 2018

New Zealand’s voluntary carbon market has had a huge boost with the purchase of $1.5 million worth of forestry credits by one of the companies driving corporate support for the low-carbon economy.

TIME'S UP: It's Surrender Day for carbon emitters

31 May 2018

Today is Emissions Trading Scheme Surrender Day – the last day for emitters to surrender units to cover their emissions last year.

Shaw set to talk carbon markets in China

29 May 2018

Climate minister James Shaw is to visit the world’s largest carbon market – China.

Carbon markets back from the brink, says World Bank

25 May 2018

Global carbon markets have been brought back from the brink of collapse by recent developments providing a much-needed boost, according to the World Bank.

MARKET REPORT: NZUs $21.35

9 May 2018

Spot NZUs opened at $21.35 bid and $21.50 offered this morning, after last fixing at $21.35.

MARKET REPORT: NZUs $20.94

19 Mar 2018

Spot NZUs opened at $20.90 bid and $21.00 offered this morning, after last fixing at $20.94.

Early days, but Govt is talking to global markets

7 Mar 2018

The Government says it’s not yet formally involved in any moves to link the Emissions Trading Scheme to other markets, but it is talking to them.

NZ still sets the pace in world of trading schemes

1 Mar 2018

Fifteen per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions are now covered by trading schemes.

Nigel Brunel

NZ could do good carbon deal now, says trader

20 Feb 2018

The Government could hedge against its $10 billion future carbon bill now – with a money-back guarantee, says carbon trader Nigel Brunel.

Carbon breaks through $20 mark

7 Dec 2017

New Zealand carbon is selling for more than $20 a tonne for the first time since March 2011 – and it’s expected to go higher.

Broker backs hedging with European units

20 Nov 2017

Entities with future carbon liabilities should be thinking about hedging with European units – and that includes the country itself, says a leading carbon broker.

Papers show official eyes on cutting free credits

16 Nov 2017

Government officials have looked at cutting the allocation of free credits to some industrial emitters by between 1 per cent and 3 per cent a year.

ETS explained...in video

7 Nov 2017

WANTING TO explain how an emissions tradiing regime can cut greenhouse gas emissions, or having trouble understanding it yourself?

Carbon on a new six-year high

6 Nov 2017

New Zealand carbon has finally burst through the $19 barrier, after hovering teasingly below the mark since October's general election.

MARKET REPORT: NZUs $18.40

20 Oct 2017

Spot NZUs closed yesterday at $18.35 bid and $18.40 offered, after last fixing at $18.40.

MARKET REPORT: NZUs $18.35

5 Sep 2017

Spot NZUs opened today at $18.25 bid and $18.55 offered, after last fixing at $18.35.

MARKET REPORT: NZUs $17.15

1 May 2017

April 2018 units were $17.88/$18.06 ($17.97).

Analysts up EU carbon price forecasts

13 Apr 2017

Analysts have significantly increased their forecasts for European carbon prices in the bloc's Emission Trading System for 2018 and 2019 to take into account the progress made in market reforms designed to curb oversupply.

NZ-China work on links despite carbon tax talk

17 Mar 2017

Work on developing carbon-trading links between New Zealand and China is continuing, despite a report this week that China might go to a carbon tax instead of a national emissions trading scheme.

China hints at tax instead of trading in carbon

15 Mar 2017

China is moving closer to a carbon tax for cutting emissions and away from the EU’s emissions trading model, a senior Chinese official has said.

MARKET REPORT: NZUs $18.05

1 Mar 2017

Spot NZUs opened today at $17.80 bid and $18.10 offered, after last fixing at $18.05.

Politics
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Climate Change and Energy minister Simon Watts (left) with Genesis Energy chief executive Malcolm Johns.

Legal experts sue Climate minister over ‘glaring holes’ in climate plan

Wed 11 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | Legal experts are taking the government to court over its Emissions Reduction Plan, alleging it fails to fulfil basic requirements of the law – with one of the arguments focussing on an over-reliance on tree-planting.

Energy
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Electric firebricks: decarbonising high-temperature industrial heat

Fri 13 Jun 2025

By Ian Mason | A new technology could offer a more cost-effective solution than hydrogen to decarbonise one ‘hard-to-abate’ sector of New Zealand’s economy, as well as having ample potential for demand response as the electricity grid becomes more renewable.

Agriculture
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Climate change and energy minister Simon Watts announcing the solar package at Fieldays

Flurry of govt announcements at Fieldays

Thu 12 Jun 2025

The government has come up with a solar energy package for farms, a new grass-fed certification scheme for meat and dairy, and a supplier agreement for carpets in new state homes - all part of the annual flurry of politicians’ Fieldays announcements.

Carbon emissions
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Lorraine Whitmarsh

Tech alone won’t save us, warns climate expert

4 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Technology alone won't be enough to reach net zero emissions, environmental psychologist Lorraine Whitmarsh told the Carbon and Energy Professionals conference in Auckland last week.

Transport
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Richard Briggs

“It’s not the car – it’s how we move” – EECA

3 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams| New Zealand’s transport emissions conversation has focused heavily on electric vehicles – but Richard Briggs, group manager, delivery and partnerships at the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, says we’re asking the wrong question.

Forestry
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Forestry consents and relaxed rules in erosion zones sow seeds of future disaster

Fri 13 Jun 2025

OPINION: The government’s move to restrict exotic forestry on our best food-growing soils will push even more forestry investment onto high erosion risk land on the East Coast, with the worst land becoming the only land left for the most intensive and destructive land use, writes Manu Caddie

Business
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Kiwi cleantech companies on the world stage

27 May 2025

Six New Zealand 'cleantech' companies were in Singapore earlier this month, along with a venture capital firm and the MacDiarmid Institute, to meet investors and multinational partners.

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