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How we tricked bacteria into making renewable propane

8 Sep 2014

Converting renewable energy into electricity is one thing; converting it into fuel is quite another.

Worth listening to ... The Nukes

8 Sep 2014

New Zealand band The Nukes captures the essence of the country's environmental problems in Last Kauri, found on their just-released album Lucky Ones.

Worth reading ... a lucky winner

8 Sep 2014

Our free copy of Dirty Politics, Nicky Hager's expose of how politics is practised in New Zealand, at least by some, goes to Amelia Guy-Meakin. Congratulations - your book is on its way.

Labour vows to scrap emitters' one-for-two deal

1 Sep 2014

The one-for-two deal that halves emitters’ carbon liabilities would be scrapped by a Labour government.

Mere Takoko ... getting smarter.

NZ First backs iwi $600m carbon claim

1 Sep 2014

New Zealand First supports an iwi leaders’ bid to raise carbon prices.

Professor Yan T Lee ... out of 10, we're at 9.

Ten more years is too late, says Nobel winner

1 Sep 2014

Negotiating a global agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol at climate change talks in Paris next year is critical to the survival of society, a visiting Nobel Prize-winning scientist says.

Forest owners welcome return of grant scheme

1 Sep 2014

Forest owners are welcoming the reinstatement of the Afforestation Grant Scheme – but say that lifting carbon prices would reverse deforestation overnight.

Foresters like look of climate commission

1 Sep 2014

Forest owners like the Labour Party's plan to set up an independent climate commission.

We're going off grid ... surely but slowly

1 Sep 2014

New Zealanders might be slow at adopting alternative electricity generation, but it does threaten the existing centralised model, a new report says.

Policy wobbles could slow renewable energy growth

1 Sep 2014

Power generation from renewable sources such as wind, solar and hydro grew strongly last year, reaching almost 22 per cent of global generation, says the International Energy Agency.

Canadian batteries get NZ approval

1 Sep 2014

Eco Alkalines household batteries are carboNZero.

Worldwide, public shows its support for renewables

1 Sep 2014

Public support for renewable energies across the world continues to grow, particularly in more advanced economies − with solar power being especially popular.

Once were jungle ... a spider-web of logging roads in the Baram River area of northern Sarawak.

Sarawak’s logging roads would go round the Earth … twice

1 Sep 2014

Sarawak’s logging companies, known for their unsustainable practices, have created a road network 88,111 km long in the Malaysian state’s rainforest, says a protest group.

Australian transport stuck in the energy queue

1 Sep 2014

Australia has scored poorly in the energy efficiency of its land transport, and is well behind other major economies, a recent international scorecard has revealed.

The fact is we're making the emissions problem worse

1 Sep 2014

Challenging news for those climate campaigners who believe that renewable sources of energy are on the increase: they may be, but so are carbon dioxide emissions.

Aviation a microcosm of the emissions problem

1 Sep 2014

No matter what the aviation industry does to reduce emissions, it will be outweighed by growth in air travel, according to a new analysis.

Scientists claim fertiliser breakthrough

1 Sep 2014

Researchers in the UK think they may have found a way to produce fertilisers that should cut farmers’ costs and at the same time boost some types of renewable energy.

Labour vows to act on agriculture by 2016

25 Aug 2014

There is bad news for farmers, and good and bad news for industrial emitters under Labour’s climate change policy, released yesterday.

Penny Nelson ... leading from the front.

Sustainability council pushes puchasing power

25 Aug 2014

Some of New Zealand’s biggest companies are working out how they can use their purchasing power to drive the new economy.

First rule of green business: Keep it simple

25 Aug 2014

How do you turn your company into a green company – the type of company capable of doing business with organisations demanding sustainable procurement?

John Key ... nothing doing.

COMMENT: Jeepers, John, you forgot the environment

25 Aug 2014

Prime Minister John Key launched National’s election campaign yesterday without mentioning the environment.

Tim Groser ... climate debate.

Groser agrees to talk climate with Labour, Greens

25 Aug 2014

David Parker, Russel Norman and Tim Groser will go head-to-head on climate policy next week.

We're giving away a copy of Dirty Politics

25 Aug 2014

Missed out on a copy of Dirty Politics, the book which uses private emails between politicians, bloggers and PR people to shine a little light on the murkier side of our politics? We’ve got a copy to give away to one of our readers.

Watchdog rules ‘clean coal’ advertisement misleading

25 Aug 2014

Britain’s advertising watchdog has ruled that an advertisement for “clean coal” by the world’s largest private sector coal firm, Peabody Energy, was misleading and should not be published again in its current form.

G20 energy brains talk business in Brisbane

25 Aug 2014

This week Brisbane hosts the final meeting of the G20 Energy Sustainability Working Group before the main G20 summit in November, when government officials and energy experts from 20 of the most powerful countries in the world will discuss how the world governs energy.

Robert Deconto ... new figures.

New facts show importance of Antarctic ice

25 Aug 2014

The IPCC is under-estimating the impact that melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will have on global sea-level rise, a visiting American scientist says.

It's happened before ... a long, long time ago

25 Aug 2014

It doesn’t take much to change a planet’s climate – just a little shift in the Northern hemisphere glacial ice sheet and a bit more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. After that, the response is rapid.

Brett Tomkins ... mainstream.

Companies call for politicians to get serious about sustainability

18 Aug 2014

Companies representing a quarter of the New Zealand economy are calling on all political parties to make a long-term commitment to sustainable business.

Dr Suzi Kerr ... major issue.

Business needs to make climate change stand

18 Aug 2014

There is still an element of climate change scepticism in New Zealand business, says a leading policy analyst.

Professor Les Oxley ... international price.

Experts pinpoint what emissions cost economy

18 Aug 2014

For the first time, economists have put a financial cost on the impact of greenhouse gases released by the industrialisation of developed countries.

High-altitude winds could help to power the Earth

18 Aug 2014

Researchers have discovered that the world’s energy needs could easily be met by harnessing the power potential of high-altitude winds.

Cathay Pacific plugs into biofuel producer

18 Aug 2014

Cathay Pacific Airways is investing in American sustainable biofuel company Fulcrum Bioenergy as part of a drive to achieve carbon-neutral growth from 2020.

Ranking shows we are kind to the planet

18 Aug 2014

New Zealand is the seventh-kindest country to the planet, according to a new ranking system.

Don't waste your money on oil and gas

18 Aug 2014

If you want a safe bet, don’t invest in some of today’s tempting oil and gas projects. That’s the message from a UK-based financial think-tank that aims to align the global energy market with climate reality.

Climate change the enemy of ancient cities

18 Aug 2014

New research supports the growing body of evidence that many past civilisations have collapsed because of climate change. So is history repeating itself?

Scientists see problems with tar sand pipeline

18 Aug 2014

European researchers say a 2000-mile pipeline designed to carry controversial tar sands oil from Canada to the southern US may lead to much more pollution than previously calculated.

Norway finds the wells have run dry

18 Aug 2014

Statoil, the Norwegian state-owned company, has announced that it has failed to find commercial quantities of oil and gas in the Barents Sea this year.

So, what is this thing called perovskite?

18 Aug 2014

By JON MAJOR.- Whenever I tell people I work with solar cells, I am asked the same two questions: are they ever going to be really cheap? And can you get me some?

Thomas Piketty ... act now.

The climate change world according to Piketty

18 Aug 2014

French economist widely debated Thomas Piketty and his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century are a global publishing phenomenon. But while Piketty’s writing on wealth inequality has been widely debated, far fewer people know that he has some useful things to say about climate change and public capital.

Who has the courage to take on transport taboos?

18 Aug 2014

Transportation continues to generate a large proportion of emissions worldwide, even as emissions from other areas of the economy fall.

Debate heats up as US looks at gas emissions

18 Aug 2014

Groups for and against US government plans for new regulations aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions have been slugging it out at a series of heated debates across America.

Flower power one way to bring new life to broken mill town

11 Aug 2014

Kawerau might have a new future as a flower town as part of a drive by Maori to build sustainable green businesses on their land.

John Key ... too busy.

Our leaders missing as world talks climate tactics

11 Aug 2014

Xi Jinping is going, and so is Barack Obama, but John Key is staying home.

Gases importers pay $1.5m carbon taxes

11 Aug 2014

Importers of synthetic greenhouse gases paid nearly $1.5 million in carbon taxes in the past financial year.

Greens have a tempting carbon tax idea

11 Aug 2014

A carbon price is still the best and fairest way to achieve emissions cuts, but as Australia and New Zealand show, it’s not easy to get it right. How could carbon pricing be improved?

Is natural gas fracking the answer to our energy problems?

11 Aug 2014

FEATURE: As climate talks heat up, experts debate whether natural gas fracking will turn brown economies green.

Fishers waking up to dangers of acidic oceans

11 Aug 2014

Research has highlighted the negative effect acidification of oceans can have on marine life, but now fishing communities are waking up to the big threat it poses to their livelihoods.

It looks like air fares will have to rise ... and rise ... and rise

11 Aug 2014

Researchers warn that the cost of airline tickets will need to rise steadily to decrease demand and counteract the effects of aviation’s growing carbon emissions.

Airports super-inefficient, says emissions study

11 Aug 2014

Airports are disastrously inefficient buildings which belch greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and contribute hugely to climate change, a European study has found.

Science eyes role of water in beating climate change

11 Aug 2014

Should we pick and choose our climate strategies based on how water-wise they are?

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‘Pathetic': experts slam govt’s approach to adaptation

Mon 20 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | The government has signalled it will step back from full property buyouts if assets are hit by climate disasters, a move adaptation experts say will condemn hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders to a “dismal” future.

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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All carrot, no stick for farmers on methane

Fri 17 Oct 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | COMMENT: The abandonment of methane emissions pricing and the adoption of a weaker target is effectively the last nail in the coffin of the historic cross-parliamentary consensus embedded in the Zero Carbon Act 2019.

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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