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A new era of migration ... and not just for people

19 Oct 2015

The world is watching as refugees flood into a Europe unprepared for the new arrivals.

Keera Single.

NZ great test-bed for plug-and-play energy system

12 Oct 2015

A new energy system which figures out the smartest way to use and store solar energy is being trialled in New Zealand.

Air NZ backs global carbon market call

12 Oct 2015

Air New Zealand appears to support a global carbon market for the aviation industry.

It's easy ... now you can be your own climate scientist

12 Oct 2015

Want to know what the world will look like if we stay on our current track toward doubling greenhouse gas emissions in the next 30 years? Run your own climate model.

Marine scientist wants to cut by-catch victims

12 Oct 2015

Examining the best ways to minimise the by-catch of protected species in fishing operations will be the subject of PhD research by a Victoria University graduate who has been awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford.

Scientists push boundaries to find alternative energy

12 Oct 2015

From algae to alloys, ingenuity in the world’s laboratories is fuelling experiments to find new ways of providing viable sources of clean energy.

Nature’s own carbon capture and storage. Matthias Ripp

France has a soil plan – and it’s not just about wine

12 Oct 2015

French wine lovers have always taken their soil very seriously. But now the country’s government has introduced fresh reasons for the rest of the world to pay attention to their terroir.

Climate-smart farming in action: Murali Paudel inspects his paddy.

Climate-smart villages boost Nepali farmers' harvests

12 Oct 2015

Nepali farmers find environmentally friendly cultivation methods increase yields – and also help them adapt to rising temperatures and increasingly erratic rainfall.

Reva electric car.

Biofuel, e-cars and trees are the way we must go

5 Oct 2015

New Zealand needs to embrace biofuels, electric vehicles and energy forests, and get rid of coal and gas-fired industrial processes if it wants to meet its 2050 emissions reduction commitment, officials have told the Government.

John Key

Our climate excuses don't wash, say enviro officials

5 Oct 2015

The Government’s favourite defence for the failure of New Zealand to take meaningful action on climate change – that it’s a small country generating negligible greenhouse gas emissions – doesn’t hold water, officials say.

Professor Jonathan Boston

China ups the pace, so the time to act is now

5 Oct 2015

China’s commitment to pricing carbon throughout its economy from 2017 means that the rest of the world should now be factoring the cost of greenhouse gas emissions into business projections, says a leading public policy analyst.

Global megatrends driving our energy changes

5 Oct 2015

New Zealand’s energy sector is being transformed from a top-down centralised system to one that is much more interactive, yet also decentralised and fragmented, a new report says.

The climate change message is do something

5 Oct 2015

New research into what motivates people to take action on climate change shows that promoting the benefits of doing something to address the problem is an effective communication tool.

NZ pushes for fisheries protection

5 Oct 2015

New Zealand will push for greater protection of high-seas fisheries at an international conference in Chile this week.

Safer battery could spark investment in renewables

5 Oct 2015

Researchers have developed a battery that uses a common food additive to enable abundant solar and wind power to be stored cheaply and safely in homes and offices.

The VW affair: It's about honesty and transparency

5 Oct 2015

As Volkswagen has found out, sustainability is about much more than promises to customers, says Professor FRANCISCO SZEKELY of the IMD Global Centre for Sustainability Leadership in Switzerland. It requires honesty and transparency, too.

Pesticides are not the only way to deal with insects

5 Oct 2015

This article is not about how to prevent ants from eating your sandwich on a picnic. But it is about mankind’s greatest competitor for our global food resource: insects.

Solar capacity to grow more than fourfold

5 Oct 2015

Global concentrated solar power capacity will increase more than fourfold by 2020, a new report shows.

Dried elephant grass ... good fuel

Elephant grass could offer viable alternative to coal

5 Oct 2015

By adapting a tropical grass to grow in the British climate, scientists hope to be able to replace coal in power stations with biofuel.

Peter Fraser

Our farming economics are flawed, says economist

28 Sep 2015

Agricultural emissions can be cut without affecting profitability, according to a former Treasury and Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry economist.

Alan Simmonds

New party dips toe in the environment pool

28 Sep 2015

The man behind a new environment-based political party says he has stood in rivers with international tourists while milk and cow manure washed around them.

Si Alan Mark

Government shows no interest in climate risks study

28 Sep 2015

The Government has rejected calls for a national assessment of the risk climate change poses to business, security, the environment and national well-being.

Dr Suzi Kerr

Here's to a low-emissions future for agriculture

28 Sep 2015

Agriculture in New Zealand could look vastly different in 2050 from the way it looks today, a cross-party seminar on climate change heard last week.

Anyway, says Key, the ETS was brought in by National

28 Sep 2015

Prime Minister John Key is claiming credit for bringing in the Emissions Trading Scheme – despite the fact his party actually voted against it.

Lucky Lotte wins Professor Tim's new book

28 Sep 2015

Lotte Blair of Wellington is the winner of Professor Tim Flannery’s new book, Atmosphere of Hope.

What’s next for VW?

Volkswagen budgets billions to stem cheating tide

28 Sep 2015

Volkswagen has set aside €6.5 billion to cover the costs of the growing scandal over cheating on emissions tests in the US.

An 80-foot coal seam in the US: Fossil fuels should not get support, the OECD says.

OECD urges end to policies which support fossil fuels

28 Sep 2015

The world should abandon fossil fuel support policies which belong in a past when healthy economies depended on pollution, say wealthiest nations.

The divestment bandwagon is now rolling far and wide.

Investors opt out of fossil fuels as climate talks near

28 Sep 2015

As momentum builds for a new deal on climate change, investors are becoming increasingly nervous about having their cash in fossil fuels.

Asia-Pacific heads for solar powerhouse status

28 Sep 2015

The Asia-Pacific region will overtake Europe to become the largest contributor to global solar photovoltaic installed capacity, says a new report.

Melting permafrost has made this Alaskan road sink by 10 feet

Arctic thaw would cost half of world's annual earnings

28 Sep 2015

If Arctic soils melt and release frozen carbon, the impact would cost almost half the world’s annual gross domestic product, researchers say.

How low-tech farming can help African farmers

28 Sep 2015

Politicians and the Pope are not the only ones calling for action on climate change these days. Farmers are observing changes in rainfall, temperature and other patterns in weather that have spurred them into shifting their farming methods.

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Backlash fear stopped move on agriculture emissions

21 Sep 2015

New Zealand came close to splitting agriculture off from its post-2020 emissions reduction target in a bid to save money, but dropped the idea amid fears of an international backlash.

Tim Groser ... wanted bigger cut.

How Groser battled for a 15% emissions cut

21 Sep 2015

Climate Change Minister Tim Groser wanted New Zealand to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030, a Treasury email shows.

No action on agriculture could cost us $13b

21 Sep 2015

Keeping agriculture out of the Emissions Trading Scheme could cost taxpayers $13 billion between 2020 and 2030, Treasury says.

More officials mirror Treasury advice to Cabinet

21 Sep 2015

Treasury bosses are not the only officials telling the Government that New Zealanders want a settled, broad agreement on climate change policy.

Professor Shaun Hendy.

NEW SERIES ... The Innovators. Who are they and what are they doing?

21 Sep 2015

Professor SHAUN HENDY on the urgent need for innovation to build a low-carbon economy, and a new series in which Carbon News profiles New Zealanders at the cutting edge of the revolution. First up, Dr Justin Hodgkiss on how much cheaper and more efficient photovoltaic panels might be about to become.

Russel Norman ... economic sense.

Member's bill demands end to fossil fuels investment

21 Sep 2015

A bill requiring public funds like ACC and Superannuation to stop investing in the exploration for and mining and production of fossil fuels has been drawn from the Parliamentary Members’ ballot.

We're a nation of wastrels, says OECD report

21 Sep 2015

New Zealanders consume a lot and waste energy, according to a new analysis of OECD countries’ performance on the Millennium Development Goals.

Coal mine in Mongolia.

Report shows up double-standards of G20 countries

21 Sep 2015

Many G20 countries are spending billions of dollars subsidising the fossil fuel industry while at the same time making commitments to tackle climate change, says a new study.

Allyn Glaysher helps with the Wellington waste audit.

Waste audit catches fishing firm by surprise

21 Sep 2015

Discovering exactly what is wasted in one day at one of its sites was an eye-opener for Aotearoa Fisheries.

Renewable energy flexes its muscles

21 Sep 2015

New Zealand’s emissions from electricity generation fell in the June quarter, as renewables take an increasing share of the load.

Water meters see the taps turned off

21 Sep 2015

Water metering on the Kapiti Coast led to a 26 per cent decline in peak water use.

Candles wilt on Melbourne’s hottest recorded day, in 2009 (46.4°) ... 2014 was the hottest year recorded globally

The global warming slowdown is an illusion

21 Sep 2015

Researchers say the world is continuing to warm, and evidence shows claims of a slowdown are unequivocally illusory.

Porsche 717 electric

Making e-cars fun: why new Porsche runs on batteries

21 Sep 2015

After a slow start, electric vehicles are gaining in popularity. London is now host to an electric car-sharing service, which proved successful in Paris.

A 'clean and green' sign outside a coal-burning power station near Kolkata.

India in disarray over strategy on global warming

21 Sep 2015

Researchers in India say its action on climate change is suffering because, unlike China, it has not developed the institutions needed to co-ordinate policy.

An ethanol plant in Iowa: energy from plant residue, apart from corn kernels, can be used to create heat and steam to run refineries.

Does bioenergy have a green energy future in the US?

21 Sep 2015

Bio-derived sources of energy – wood, grass, dung and alcohol – have a rich history, yet have failed to command the “buzz” of solar, wind or even geothermal in public discussions regarding renewable energy.

Power of alcohol might be the answer

21 Sep 2015

Powering your laptop computer or cell phone with alcohol might not be so far-fetched, as a number of organisations are already actively developing methanol-powered fuel cells for electronic devices, according to a new paper.

Steven Joyce ... given the message.

Business, officials want cross-party climate deal

14 Sep 2015

High government officials and business leaders have recommended cross-party consensus on climate change - something the Government has since ruled out.

Tim Flannery gives us hope ... and we're giving away a of copy of his new book

14 Sep 2015

Tim Flannery says he's more hopeful now than he has been in years, thanks to the carbon-storing potential of technologies being developed by businesses all over the world.

John Key ... Pacific advice.

Go talk to China, Key tells islands leaders

14 Sep 2015

New Zealand has told Pacific Islands leaders to take to China their concerns about their countries being engulfed by climate-change-induced rising sea levels.

Politics
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Rod Carr

Govt ‘captured by industry’ on methane – Carr

Today 11:00am

By Liz Kivi | Former Climate Change Commission chair Rod Carr says that recent moves to weaken methane targets and halt plans for agricultural emissions pricing show the Government has been captured by industry.

Energy
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Electricity Authority proposes doubling solar export limits to 10 kW

Mon 20 Oct 2025

The Electricity Authority is proposing a default 10kW export limit for small-scale generation, saying new inverter standards and voltage settings allow homes and businesses to feed more power into local networks without compromising safety.

Agriculture
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Council buys dairy farm to help clean up Lake Rotorua

Today 11:00am

Bay of Plenty Regional Council has bought a 266-hectare dairy farm in the Lake Rotorua catchment and plans to retire it from production to reduce nitrogen entering the lake.

Carbon emissions
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Govt releases updated emissions projections

13 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | The Ministry for the Environment has released updated emissions projections to 2050, which show significant differences to the Climate Change Commission's recent projections for the same period.

Transport
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Air NZ inks deal for its first internationally verified carbon credits

9 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | Air New Zealand has committed to buying 8000 tonnes of carbon removals by 2030, in partnership with local native forest investment platform My Native Forest.

Forestry
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Emails show forestry lobby fought Gisborne crackdown as slash clean-up drags on

26 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Sustainable land use advocates are accusing Eastland Wood Council of stonewalling efforts to tighten forestry rules, after correspondence between the group and the local council was released under the Official Information Act.

Business
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Eraring power station is a black coal-fired power station on the shores of Lake Macquarie, southeast of Newcastle, NSW

Climate credibility gap widening for Aussie firms

1 Oct 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Australian public companies’ climate change commitments are in retreat, reflecting difficulty in achieving stated targets and increased fossil use, but not because of any pressure to make less effort, according to a study of major companies’ ESG reporting.

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