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ASA mulls over 100% Pure complaint
15 Mar 2013
The Advertising Standards Association is yet to decide whether it will accept jurisdiction over a complaint about the validity of New Zealand’s 100% Pure advertising brand.
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'100% Pure Kiwi lad' challenges brand claims
8 Mar 2013
The Advertising Standards Authority is being asked to rule on the validity of New Zealand’s 100% Pure marketing brand.
Unfair to blame biodiesel, say critics
8 Mar 2013
Claims that Solid Energy’s diversification into biodiesel led to its dismal financial state are being dismissed by both the industry and the Green Party.
Govt wants to hold carry-over units
8 Mar 2013
The Government wants to be the only New Zealand holder of ERUS and CERs who can carry them over into the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
Critics uneasy with Fonterra-DOC deal
8 Mar 2013
Fonterra has signed the country's biggest corporate conservation deal in what Conservation Minister Nick Smith says is a sign of the success of the Government's blue-green agenda.
Wood industry report shows the way
8 Mar 2013
The wood industry’s investigation of future economic opportunities – including biofuels and biochemicals – is finished.
Climate challenges in the spotlight
8 Mar 2013
International attempts to curb climate change will be put under the microscope by one of New Zealand's leading climate scientists.
Droughts ... you'd better get used to them
8 Mar 2013
Extensive droughts across parts of New Zealand are part of a long-term trend toward increased frequency of anticyclones over New Zealand, a University of Canterbury weather expert says.
Steel mill, smelter top free credits list
1 Mar 2013
The Glenbrook steel mill and the Bluff aluminium smelter were the big winners in last year’s hand-out of free carbon credits to industrial emitters.
Beehive watchdog slams RMA proposals
1 Mar 2013
The Government's proposed changes to the Resource Management Act paint the environment as the enemy of the economy, says the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.
We're making RMA easier, says minister
1 Mar 2013
The Government has announced changes to the Resource Management Act which it says will make it easier to use, increase certainty and predictability, attract investment, reduce unnecessary duplication and cost.
Airport sets high energy cut goals
1 Mar 2013
Auckland Airport wants to cut energy use by 20 per cent per passenger by 2020.
Forests emissions returns due soon
22 Feb 2013
Emissions returned for 2012 have been filed for nearly a fifth of post 1989-forests registered under the Emissions Trading Scheme.
Question for PM: UN is serious, are you?
22 Feb 2013
Green Party MP Kennedy Graham told Parliament this week that the United Nations Security Council is starting to consider climate change a serious risk.
Voluntary deals don't work, say Greens
22 Feb 2013
Voluntary accords like the new Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord are no substitute for effective rules and standards, the Green Party says.
Memo Phil: Sydney loves the Leaf
15 Feb 2013
They might be too expensive for former Energy Minister Phil Heatley, but Sydney’s Lord Mayor is embracing them.
Companies link to build fuel demo plant
15 Feb 2013
Development of a large-scale wood-to-biofuel plant in New Zealand came a step closer this week with the announcement that Z Energy and Norske Skog want to build a demonstration plant.
Former employees buy biofuels maker
15 Feb 2013
Solid Energy’s biofuels production company has been sold to two of its former employees.
Companies adrift on climate-change score
15 Feb 2013
New Zealand companies are going backwards on climate-change disclosure, a new report says.
Meat exporter targets energy savings
15 Feb 2013
One of New Zealand’s biggest meat exporters is set to build its international brand through a range of energy management and efficiency measures.
'Pure NZ' impossible mountain, says scientist
8 Feb 2013
The 100% Pure brand is stopping New Zealand reaching its potential, says the current holder of the Prime Minister’s Science Communicator Prize.
Wood-waste plant idea excites biofuel pioneer
8 Feb 2013
Ground-breaking biofuel company LanzaTech is interested in building a woody-waste gasification plant in New Zealand.
Clean energy tops agenda at talkfest
8 Feb 2013
New Zealand should stop resting on its hydro-electricity-generation laurels and start making real steps towards a clean energy future, says the organiser of next week’s Energy Conference in Wellington.
Companies in court over cost of ETS
8 Feb 2013
By PATTRICK SMELLIE. South Island mining company OceanaGold Corp is refusing to pay for diesel it bought from Z Energy, which charged for the fuel based on a higher cost of the Emissions Trading Scheme than the New Zealand-owned company actually pays.
Car seller in drive toward lower carbon
8 Feb 2013
Kia Motors is taking active measures in New Zealand to reduce its carbon footprint.
Gas research centre gets more funding
8 Feb 2013
The Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium has secured funding from the agriculture sector and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to continue research to find tools for mitigating greenhouse gases.
Refugees? Don't ask us, says Government
1 Feb 2013
New Zealand has no policy for dealing with future climate change refugees.
Key's climate change answers anger Greens
1 Feb 2013
Prime Minister John Key was challenged in Parliament this week over why he didn’t mention climate change in his outline of Government priorities for the year.
Officials sort out Kyoto withdrawal
1 Feb 2013
Government officials are working out the implications of New Zealand’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol.
Government mulls over binding target
1 Feb 2013
The Government is “considering advice on Doha outcomes” as it ponders what this country’s binding emissions reduction target will be.
New wind generator does it on the ground
1 Feb 2013
A new wind-energy company will change the way that people look at windpower, say the company's directors.
Air NZ makes final of world awards
1 Feb 2013
Air New Zealand has been named a finalist in the 2013 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards, which recognise sustainable tourism best-practice in businesses and at destinations.
FORUM: Why is it so hard to change?
1 Feb 2013
How do we get people to make the changes necessary to prevent the full impact of climate change, asks writer ANDREW MARTIN.
FORUM: '100% pure' is 100% damaging
1 Feb 2013
100% Pure NZ tag is damaging our economy, says marketing adviser DANIEL BATTEN.
Low prices way out for pre-90 foresters
25 Jan 2013
Record-low carbon prices could see hundreds of thousands of hectares of pre-1990 plantation forest cleared or converted to post-1989 forest.
Second tranche units make an appearance
25 Jan 2013
Units from the second tranche of the pre-1990 forests allocation are starting to trickle into the market.
Southern lignite stupid idea, says farmer
25 Jan 2013
The idea of digging up fertile farmland for lignite coal is “100% stupidity,” a visiting Australian farmer says.
Ice fish don't mind if the climate gets warmer
25 Jan 2013
Researchers have found that southern fish can cope with warmer waters, giving some hope for the future of the Antarctic environment.
Profit-rich foresters might quit ETS
18 Jan 2013
Forest owners who have made a tidy profit by selling carbon high and buying low are now looking to quit the Emissions Trading Scheme.
Bio crop could put money in the margins
18 Jan 2013
A team of New Zealand researchers say that biofuels can be produced sustainably and economically from crops grown on the margins of paddocks.
Forest returns dragging the chain
18 Jan 2013
The sluggishness of the carbon market appears to be reflected in this year’s post-1989 forest carbon returns.
Research scientists eye funding for funds
18 Jan 2013
Scientists involved in research to reduce biological carbon emissions are being offered funding to help them to apply for funding.
Early seasons spring plant surprises
18 Jan 2013
Spring is springing earlier in the United States – and climate change is being blamed.
Groser goes green in Berlin
18 Jan 2013
Climate Change Issues Minister Tim Groser is at Berlin’s Green Week – the largest food, agriculture and horticulture festival in the world.
Forest owners to vote on industry voice
18 Jan 2013
Forest owners will vote in March on a plan that aims to give all commercial forest and woodlot owners a say in the future of their industry.
NZ carbon stand wrong, says Kyoto expert
14 Dec 2012
New Zealand’s political determination to maintain access to carbon at international prices is a mistake, says our most seasoned Kyoto negotiator.
Govt takes 'hard look' at green economy
14 Dec 2012
The Government has set out is plans for developing a green economy in New Zealand.
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.
