New Zealand: All stories
Crest gets nod for Kaipara tidal plant
18 Mar 2011
New Zealand’s first tidal energy scheme has got the go-ahead.
Biodiesel co-op wants to expand
18 Mar 2011
New Zealand’s first biodiesel co-operative is celebrating its first birthday with plans to expand into other towns.
Love NZ and watch where you dump rubbish
18 Mar 2011
A nationwide education campaign to promote recycling in public places was launched on bus shelters in central Auckland and Wellington this week.
Australia, Germany sign solar pact
18 Mar 2011
Australia and Germany are to work together in a bid to accelerate technological breakthroughs in solar energy.
Labour: All councils should look at solar
18 Mar 2011
The Labour Party is calling on all local councils to follow Auckland's example and make solar hot-water heating affordable.
ETS review panel wants YOUR input
11 Mar 2011
The Emissions Trading Scheme review panel wants to know how the scheme is affecting businesses, households, farmers, foresters and Maori.
ETS PAPER 1: Businesses feel the costs
11 Mar 2011
The Emissions Trading Scheme has increased the cost of electricity and fuel for businesses by about 1 per cent of revenue, the panel reviewing the scheme says.
ETS PAPER 2: World situation unclear
11 Mar 2011
New Zealand could decide it is economically sensible to push ahead with the Emissions Trading Scheme even if the world fails to negotiate a successor for the Kyoto Protocol, the panel reviewing the ETS says.
Business lobby group tries to set the tone
11 Mar 2011
Business New Zealand is making a bid to set the tone of the Emissions Trading Scheme review by pre-empting the launch of the review panel’s issues paper today with one of its own.
Caygill crew meets business leaders
11 Mar 2011
The committee reviewing the Emissions Trading Scheme has already met with some of the country’s most influential bodies as it works towards its June deadline.
New Christchurch could show world the way
11 Mar 2011
Post-quake Christchurch could be a world-leading example of a sustainable city, an expert says.
Industrial emitters lodge first returns
11 Mar 2011
The first industrial emissions returns have been lodged with the Ministry of Economic Development.
Fertiliser firm wins battle over inhibitor
11 Mar 2011
A Christchurch company has won a court battle to patent its nitrogen emissions-reducing fertiliser.
Garnaut: Climate change risks greater
11 Mar 2011
The Australian Government’s climate change adviser says that the science on climate change has got stronger since he released his 2008 review and it now appears that the risks are greater.
Taupo centre showcases clean energy
11 Mar 2011
A centre designed to accelerate New Zealand’s adoption of clean energy technologies will open in Taupo next month.
Scientists get help with ag research
11 Mar 2011
The Government has announced a fellowship programme as part of New Zealand’s efforts on the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases.
Kawerau mill wins forest award
11 Mar 2011
The Kawerau paper mill has been awarded the Forest Stewardship Council chain of custody certification.
Emissions target unrealistic, says lobbyist
4 Mar 2011
The natural resources sector is warning the Government that it’s unlikely to meet its target of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Forest owners pick up three million credits
4 Mar 2011
Forest owners have so far received a total of more than three million credits for carbon sequestered in their forests last year.
UK expert to talk with ETS review group
4 Mar 2011
The committee reviewing the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme is to hear from one of Britain’s top carbon markets advisers.
Windflow happy with UK tariff change
4 Mar 2011
New Zealand turbine maker Windflow Technologies say it does not expect a review of feed-in tariffs in the United Kingdom to affect business.
Waikato wind farm wins approval
4 Mar 2011
A new Waikato wind farm has been given a conditional go-ahead.
Makers fire glass bullet at packagers
4 Mar 2011
Glass manufacturers have fired a shot at packaging companies for failing to make sure their products are recycled.
No-fly Bill catches a slow boat
4 Mar 2011
Australian entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Liao has taken a slow boat to America.
We could be driving on waste toner
4 Mar 2011
Three Kiwi companies are investigating whether waste residue toner from recycled cartridges can be re-used in New Zealand roads.
BOC signs long=term clean energy deal
4 Mar 2011
Australian gases and engineering company BOC says it secured a long-term industrial gas supply contract worth $A1 billion with a company planning to use clean energy technology to feed the world.
NZ farmers happy with omission of agriculture
25 Feb 2011
Federated Farmers will use Australia's decision not to put a price on agricultural emissions to back its argument to keep farmers out of the New Zealand scheme.
Labour: It's the same old story
25 Feb 2011
The Labour Party says the opposition in Australia to putting a price on carbon is reminiscent of what happened in New Zealand.
Geothermal best bet, says Contact
25 Feb 2011
Geothermal energy is New Zealand’s most strategically important renewable energy resource, says Contact Energy.
LanzaTech signs with Korean giant
25 Feb 2011
New Zealand's LanzaTech has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest steel producers in the world to turn its flue gases to ethanol.
Science key to the future, says Gluckman
25 Feb 2011
New Zealand must globalise its science to strengthen its economy and protect its social and environmental development, says the Prime Minister's Chief Science Adviser, Sir Peter Gluckman.
EXCLUSIVE: Govt stays silent on free allocations
18 Feb 2011
The Government is still refusing to say how many free carbon credits are being given to some of New Zealand’s biggest companies, despite an Official Information Act request.
Lignite mining could send emissions soaring
18 Feb 2011
Solid Energy’s proposed lignite projects in Southland could add 10 million to 20 million tonnes to New Zealand’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.
Windfarm decision worries developers
18 Feb 2011
A decision to let only part of the proposed Tiritea wind farm go ahead has got wind energy developers worried.
Fewer emissions aid rural sector, says Garnaut
18 Feb 2011
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions could improve the economic prospects of rural Australia, says that country’s government adviser on climate change.
Motorway money poor choice, say Greens
18 Feb 2011
The Government’s transport stimulus package would have created many more jobs if it hadn’t cut funding for everything else to build new motorways, said the Green Party says.
Foresters' champion plants trees for carbon
11 Feb 2011
The man who won forest owners the right to earn money from the carbon stored in their trees is about to plant his first dedicated carbon forest.
Clean-tech costs falling fast, says Garnaut
11 Feb 2011
The cost of clean technology is falling faster than expected, as the United States and China swing their manufacturing might behind the sector, says the Australian Government’s climate change adviser.
Emissions target proposal seen as a trick
11 Feb 2011
A row has broken out over whether New Zealand’s proposed 2050 emissions reduction target is any sort of reduction at all.
ETS group looks at oral submissions
11 Feb 2011
The committee reviewing the Emissions Trading Scheme says it will try to hear oral submissions from those who want to make them.
Engineers warn of infrastructure chaos
11 Feb 2011
Engineers are warning the British Government that the country’s infrastructure will not cope with the effects of climate change.
Ag emissions calculator updated
11 Feb 2011
The group giving neutral climate change advice to agriculture has updated its online emissions calculator.
Weather chaos just the start, warn scientists
4 Feb 2011
The wild weather in Australia should sound a warning to New Zealand business on what to expect from climate change, says one of our leading climate scientists.
Action group gives nod to Green Growth move
4 Feb 2011
A group of top business people pushing for a clean-tech strategy for New Zealand says it will work with the Government’s new Green Growth advisory group.
Time running out for say on forest schemes
4 Feb 2011
The public has just two weeks left in which to make submissions on the future of the Permanent Forest Sink Initiative and other forestry schemes.
Garnaut backs fixed carbon price
4 Feb 2011
Australia’s chief climate change adviser is backing the idea of a fixed carbon price.
Smith calls for carbon reduction submissions
4 Feb 2011
The Government is calling for submissions on New Zealand’s 2050 emissions reduction target.
Govt promises ‘earlier action’ in response to Commission’s warning climate targets at risk
Fri 17 Oct 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government says it will “explore opportunities for earlier action” ahead of the third Emissions Reduction Plan, and has committed to looking at ways to stop the system of free carbon credits for industrial polluters from disincentivising industrial decarbonisation.
Transpower tracks more than 100 new grid projects
Tue 14 Oct 2025
Transpower’s latest connection data show more than 100 generation, storage and load projects in its pipeline, reflecting the rapid pace of electrification across the country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
