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New Zealand: All stories

Debanking debate heats up as deadline looms for submissions on NZ First bill

Today 10:30am

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The debate over so-called “woke banking” is back in the spotlight as the deadline approaches for public input on NZ First’s Debanking Bill.

NIWA forecaster Chris Brandolino tracking the 'subtropical river of moisture' that was set to drench the country

Govt policy going backwards on protecting communities from climate-fuelled flooding, say campaigners

Today 10:30am

Extreme flooding at the top of the South Island demonstrates the dangers of the government’s ‘growth at any cost’ agenda, according to freshwater campaigners.

SolarZero liquidation complex - but sale possible

Today 10:30am

It will likely take a long time to sort out the complexities around the liquidation of SolarZero, with a series of claims against the company adding to the myriad complexities in arrangements set up to manage its contracts and obligations.

Mangroves' overlooked climate role

Mon 30 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand’s mangrove forests are pulling tens of thousands of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year, yet their climate benefits remain unrecognised in national emissions reporting.

Bill to limit farm-to-forest conversions passes first reading

Fri 27 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The government's bill aiming to limit farm-to-forestry conversions in the Emissions Trading Scheme passed its first reading in Parliament this week, however concerns were raised over rushing it through under urgency, with less than two weeks allowed for public submissions.

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IRD will stop using wetland destruction in ‘how-to’ for claiming expenses

Fri 27 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | Environmental organisation Forest & Bird has welcomed the Inland Revenue’s decision to stop using wetland destruction as an example of a tax-deductible agricultural expense in future guidance.

The new bund is providing some protection to Amberley Beach residents for now.

Council land banks to prepare for future disasters

Fri 27 Jun 2025

By David Hill, Local Democracy Reporter | In a "uniquely Hurunui" move, a North Canterbury council is land banking to prepare for future natural disasters and the threat of climate change.

Pre-trial skirmishes kick off in groundbreaking climate case

Thu 26 Jun 2025

By Vernon Rive | The Supreme Court’s February 2024 ruling clearing the way for Māori climate spokesperson Mike Smith’s tort claims against a group of New Zealand ‘carbon majors’ to proceed to trial has set the stage for years of protracted, contentious litigation.

NZ climate reports must shift from compliance to strategy as Scope 3 disclosures loom

Thu 26 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand’s largest climate-reporting entities are being urged to evolve their mandatory disclosures from checklist-style compliance to strategic, risk-focused documents, or risk falling behind.

NZ quits Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance

Wed 25 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | The New Zealand government has quietly withdrawn from an ambitious coalition to phase out fossil fuels, with a $200 million publicly-funded subsidy for new gas fields the latest policy in conflict with that goal.

Dr Robert McLachlan, Distinguished Professor in the School of Fundamental Sciences at Massey University

Govt undermining its own climate tool – expert

Wed 25 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme is at risk of becoming useless as a tool to cut emissions, partly because of dubious forecasting about emissions, according to a climate policy expert.

Green Party climate change spokesperson and co-leader, Chlöe Swarbrick

Govt’s $200m fossil fuel handout breaches trade agreement – Greens

24 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The government's $200 million dollar investment fund for local gas exploration is a "clear breach" of the Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability agreement, according to legal advice commissioned by the Green Party.

NZ's latest climate target 'weak' – Climate Action Tracker

24 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand's new international climate target to 2035 is weak, and could even allow for higher emissions than the 2030 target, according to a global scientific project that tracks government climate action.

Huntly deal closer

24 Jun 2025

The major electricity companies’ latest steps to secure the future of the Rankine units at Huntly power station are a major step forward in cooperation to ensure energy security.

Could an unexplained carbon forest sink solve govt’s billion-dollar climate woes?

23 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | A groundbreaking study shows that New Zealand’s native forests are absorbing far more carbon dioxide than previously thought.

90% of NZers expect more extreme weather disasters because of climate change

23 Jun 2025

A new climate change poll from AMI, State, and NZI shows New Zealanders are expecting more extreme weather events as a result of climate change.

Alan Eggers says Māori should sign up for work monitoring TTR's planned mine

‘Whether they want us or not’: Seabed mine boss calls Māori to work for him

23 Jun 2025

By Craig Ashworth, Local Democracy Reporter | The Australian company applying to mine the South Taranaki seabed wants iwi to jump on board and get to work keeping an eye on the environment.

The Kapuni Gas Treatment Plant

Concerns with govt climate policy – expert

19 Jun 2025

By Shannon-Morris Williams |The government's latest emissions reduction plan is incoherent and vastly understates the urgency needed to help users transition off gas, according to an expert.

Dr Elizabeth Heeg

Forestry the missing piece in Fieldays climate change discussions

19 Jun 2025

By Elizabeth Heeg | OPINION: Fieldays was packed with climate change announcements from the government last week, but none about the sector with arguably the most important role: Forestry.

Environmental Protection Authority in court over glyphosate risk

19 Jun 2025

The Environmental Protection Authority has been taken to court over its decision not to re-assess the herbicide glyphosate.

Mercury on future and reforms

19 Jun 2025

Mercury said in presentation to investors that it has the potential to develop 5 terawatt hours of geothermal electricity generation post 2030.

ACT Local Government spokesperson Cameron Luxton

ACT local govt candidates aim to block climate action

18 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The ACT party's candidates will oppose attempts to manage emissions at the local government level if elected, the party has confirmed.

Govt signals major change to oil and gas exploration rules

17 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Resources minister Shane Jones has signalled a major change to New Zealand’s oil and gas exploration rules, with a plan to remove restrictions limiting oil and gas exploration to defined block offer areas and instead allow exploration permits across all of the country's territory.

Smelter ramps up production

17 Jun 2025

In a sign that the energy sector is increasingly confident of getting through the winter without a fuel shortage, the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is ramping back up production and electricity demand earlier than expected.

How flying can be a climate solution

16 Jun 2025

By Paul Callister and Robert McLachlan - Planetary Ecology | How can aviation contribute to tackling climate change when no practicable technology-based solutions are on the horizon?

Rachel Arnott with kaumatua Ngāpari Nui at the New Plymouth District Council committee

Tribunal asked to halt seabed mine fast-track

16 Jun 2025

By Craig Ashworth, Local Democracy Reporter | South Taranaki hapū want the Waitangi Tribunal to halt a fast-track bid to mine the seabed off Pātea.

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

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

Electric firebricks: decarbonising high-temperature industrial heat

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.

Andrew Hoggard, associate minister for the Environment

Govt announces pilot projects for voluntary nature credits

12 Jun 2025

The government today announced it is supporting the voluntary credits nature market to expand by running pilot projects across New Zealand.

Outcry over six-tonne protected coral bycatch haul

12 Jun 2025

A New Zealand bottom trawling vessel has pulled up six tonnes of protected stony coral in a single trawl – making it the worst reported case of coral destruction in New Zealand waters in over a decade.

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

Flurry of govt announcements at Fieldays

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.

Rapid action vital following UN Ocean Conference – experts

12 Jun 2025

New Zealand-based experts are calling for rapid and transformative action to restore nature - and our relationship with it - at the third UN Ocean Conference in France this week.

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

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.

James Treadwell, president of the New Zealand Institute of Forestry

Foresters baulk at restrictions, land ballots

11 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | Forestry groups say that new legislation will introduce further uncertainty for planting plans and poses a threat to climate targets.

Could Queenstown become the world’s most electric city?

11 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Queenstown is set to become the focus of an ambitious initiative aiming to transform it into the world’s most electrified destination.

ASB launches interest-free loans for solar installations

11 Jun 2025

ASB Bank is providing farmers with interest-free loans of up to $150,000 over five years to support the installation of solar panels and battery systems on their farms.

Professor Jane Kelsey

Govt uses climate change as ‘Trojan horse’ for other objectives

10 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Waitangi Tribunal has heard that the New Zealand Government’s international trade and investment agreements are failing to meet Tiriti o Waitangi obligations in the context of climate change – prioritising commercial interests while sidelining Māori rights and worldviews.

Legislation introduced to restrict farm-to-forest conversions

10 Jun 2025

Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has today introduced a bill to Parliament that he says will put a stop to large-scale farm-to-forestry conversions.

Govt puts commercial focus on Milford Sound access

10 Jun 2025

The Government has rejected a proposal to stop cruise ships entering the Milford Sound and to close the Milford Aerodrome.

Climate change minister Simon Watts

Watts coy about meeting environmental groups over methane target

9 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | Climate change minister Simon Watts won’t say whether he’ll meet NGOs to discuss New Zealand’s approach to methane emissions, with five environmental organisations joining forces to ask for a meeting to warn the government off weakening methane targets.

Fed Farmers launches campaign against carbon forestry

6 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | Federated Farmers has launched what they are calling the ‘Save Our Sheep’ campaign, blaming carbon forestry for declining sheep numbers and calling on the government to urgently review the Emissions Trading Scheme.

Extreme ocean warming engulfed South-West Pacific in 2024

6 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Unprecedented ocean warming engulfed the South-West Pacific in 2024, with extreme heat and rainfall causing deadly and devastating impacts and sea level rise threatening entire islands.

Biochar's negative emissions tech coming to Fieldays

6 Jun 2025

Biochar Network New Zealand will showcase its negative emissions technology biochar at this year's Forestry Hub at Fieldays 2025.

Richard Hills

Climate progress slowing, says Auckland councillor

5 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The devastating cyclone that tore through Tāmaki Makaurau in 2023 left behind more than just broken infrastructure, sparking calls to focus on facts over ideology in the fight against climate change.

Waste Levy risks becoming ‘slush fund’ under proposed changes – Commissioner

5 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Proposed changes to New Zealand's waste legislation risk undermining public trust in the waste levy scheme, according to Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton.

Gas supply reducing faster than forecast

5 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | Gas reserves have reduced 27% as of 1 January 2025 compared to last year, according to data released today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

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.

Surge of lobbying over electricity sector review

4 Jun 2025

Jostling and lobbying have intensified ahead of the release of a review into the electricity sector.

The microplastics found on a Waikato beach

Microplastics found in sand on dozens of NZ beaches

4 Jun 2025

Scientists have extracted microplastics from the sand of 22 beaches from the Far North to Banks Peninsula.

Controversy around NZ’s methane target hits international press

3 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | New Zealand’s approach to methane targets has hit international media, with climate scientists from multiple countries penning an open letter warning Prime Minister Christopher Luxon not to weaken methane targets.

Politics
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Debanking debate heats up as deadline looms for submissions on NZ First bill

Today 10:30am

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The debate over so-called “woke banking” is back in the spotlight as the deadline approaches for public input on NZ First’s Debanking Bill.

Energy
More Energy >

SolarZero liquidation complex - but sale possible

Today 10:30am

It will likely take a long time to sort out the complexities around the liquidation of SolarZero, with a series of claims against the company adding to the myriad complexities in arrangements set up to manage its contracts and obligations.

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

Flurry of govt announcements at Fieldays

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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Mangroves' overlooked climate role

Mon 30 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand’s mangrove forests are pulling tens of thousands of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year, yet their climate benefits remain unrecognised in national emissions reporting.

Transport
More Transport >

How flying can be a climate solution

16 Jun 2025

By Paul Callister and Robert McLachlan - Planetary Ecology | How can aviation contribute to tackling climate change when no practicable technology-based solutions are on the horizon?

Forestry
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Bill to limit farm-to-forest conversions passes first reading

Fri 27 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The government's bill aiming to limit farm-to-forestry conversions in the Emissions Trading Scheme passed its first reading in Parliament this week, however concerns were raised over rushing it through under urgency, with less than two weeks allowed for public submissions.

Business
More Business >

IRD will stop using wetland destruction in ‘how-to’ for claiming expenses

Fri 27 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | Environmental organisation Forest & Bird has welcomed the Inland Revenue’s decision to stop using wetland destruction as an example of a tax-deductible agricultural expense in future guidance.

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