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Oops! Treasury sums wrong by $50 billion

16 Nov 2009

Treasury underestimated by $50 billion the cost of proposed changes to the way in which the government hands out free carbon credits.

ETS debate might still be a week away

16 Nov 2009

Parliament might not debate changes to the emissions trading scheme until next week.

Fonterra plant ... no free carbon credits.

Dejected dairy giant plans next ETS move

16 Nov 2009

Dairy giant Fonterra is considering its next move after a parliamentary select committee failed to prevent measures that will exclude the co-operative’s processing from receiving free carbon credits.

Phil Goff ... process a shambles.

Goff slams Government's billions blunder

16 Nov 2009

The shambolic process around the Government’s proposed Emissions Trading Scheme has been exposed by a $50 billion blunder by National, Labour Leader Phil Goff said today.

Dr Suzi Kerr ... high-level protection is costly.

Harmonisation not the way, says expert

16 Nov 2009

An international expert on emissions trading says that detailed harmonisation of the New Zealand scheme with that of Australia is not necessary or desirable.

Russel Norman ... minister needs to front up.

Greens: ETS something worth swearing about

16 Nov 2009

Revelations that Climate Change Minister Nick Smith's proposed changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme are going to cost taxpayers an extra $105 billion is something really worth swearing about, Dr Russel Norman, Green Party Co-Leader, said today.

Charles Chauvel ... danger in rushing changes.

National foolish in slavishly following Australia, says Chauvel

16 Nov 2009

The Australian Government's decision to exclude agriculture from its emissions trading scheme is further evidence of the folly of National's headlong rush to harmonise with Australia in this area, Labour's climate change spokesperson Charles Chauvel says.

Don Nicolson ...

Aussie farmers out of ETS ‘faster than a rat up a drainpipe’

16 Nov 2009

As predicted by Federated Farmers two weeks ago, Australia’s Federal Government yesterday opted to permanently exclude farmers from its emissions trading scheme.

Error sends cost of ETS changes skyrocketing

13 Nov 2009

The cost of changes to the emissions trading scheme might be up to three times as high as the Government has said.

Vote deadlocked as ETS bill returns to House

13 Nov 2009

A deadlocked select committee is expected to report back to Parliament today on the Government’s planned changes to the emissions trading scheme.

Divided Maori Party likely to toe the line on ETS

13 Nov 2009

The Maori Party is deeply divided over changes to the emissions trading scheme – but is unlikely to split its vote on the issue.

Treasury says it hasn't got Kyoto accounts wrong

13 Nov 2009

Treasury is disputing a claim that it has failed to include liabilities for future forestry harvesting in New Zealand’s Kyoto accounts.

FORUM: Britain stands shoulder to shoulder with Maldives on climate change

13 Nov 2009

By Douglas Alexander, British international development secretary, and Mohamed Nasheed, president of the Maldives

Farmers might move offshore, warns Fonterra

6 Nov 2009

Fonterra is being cut out of free carbon credits under the Government's amended emissions trading scheme - and is warning the move could drive farmers offshore.

Charles Chauvel ... NZ under pressure at Copenhagen.

Methane scare: NZ urged to watch and wait

6 Nov 2009

New Zealand policy makers are being urged not to react too quickly to American research suggesting methane might play a bigger part in climate change than previously thought.

Alasdair Thompson ... frustration and confusion over ETS.

ETS politics frustrating, says business chief

6 Nov 2009

Wellington’s obsession with the politics of climate change and carbon trading is turning off the rest of the country, says the EMA (Northern).

We can meet deadline, says ETS committee

6 Nov 2009

The Government says it’s on track to have changes to the emissions trading scheme in place by the time international leaders gather in Copenhagen next month to negotiate the next global climate change agreement.

Electric cars .. major long term net savings

Electric cars could deliver $8 billion+ net benefit

6 Nov 2009

The net benefit to New Zealand from comparing no uptake of electric vehicles to the expected market demand is $8.2 billion over a 50 year analysis period.

Forum: Why must New Zealand adopt the limitations of the Australian CPRS, asks EITG's Richard Hayes

6 Nov 2009

Cabinet minutes from the September 14 have some sobering news for forest owners thinking of selling credits off shore by converting NZU units to international government compliance assigned amount units (AAU) units.

FORUM: Country needs a change of focus

6 Nov 2009

Sustainable development remains high on the international agenda, even as policy makers are distracted by the political and fiscal fall-out of the global financial crisis, says NZIER.

Environmental priorities must connect the dots, say Greens

6 Nov 2009

This week's New Zealand Institute of Economic Research report on environmental priorities fails to connect the dots between modern environmental challenges, particularly when it suggests that reducing climate change emissions is a low priority for New Zealand, says the Green Party.

Bill sets dangerous precedent, says law expert

30 Oct 2009

The government’s climate change amendment bill is controversial, possibly unconstitutional, and sets a dangerous precedent, says constitutional law expert Professor Noel Cox.

Craig Foss ... working well.

Foss committee has tight deadlines

30 Oct 2009

The select committee considering amendments to the emissions trading scheme will be working hard to meet the November 16 reporting back deadline, says its chairman.

Mike Tournier ... 225 companies accredited.

Carbon certifier moves into British market

30 Oct 2009

The government-owned CarboNZero carbon certification programme is moving into Britain on a large scale.

Malcolm Rands ... being eco-friendly means saving money.

Ecostore: First, we take Manhatten …

30 Oct 2009

An Auckland businessman who this week takes on Manhatten says that a recession is the perfect time in which to embrace ideas like carbon neutrality.

Australian provider buys CERs from China

30 Oct 2009

Australian company COzero says it has completed the purchase of more than 1.4 million CERs (certified emission reduction units) from three projects in China.

$209 MILLION A YEAR - that's what we'll pay to protect Rio Tinto, says analyst

23 Oct 2009

Protecting Rio Tinto’s Tiwai Point aluminium smelter from the full impacts of the emissions trading scheme will cost New Zealand $225,000 a year for every job at the smelter, a management consultant says.

Rodney Hide ... attacks backroom deals

Hide hacks at ETS policy management – tied bill voting more likely

23 Oct 2009

Act party leader Rodney Hide says the process of establishing the ETS is “shot through with lobbying, unprincipled deal-making and divergent treatment of different economic activities”.

Japan casts keen eye on NZ forest credits

23 Oct 2009

Interest in New Zealand’s forestry credits is growing in Japan, says the company involved in the first international sale of the units.

Legal tangle awaits amended climate bill

23 Oct 2009

The Government might have scored an own goal in its haste to push through its climate change amendment bill.

Farming opportunites huge, says recruiter

23 Oct 2009

Carbon reduction and carbon trading hold huge potential for farmers – if they can get beyond the rhetoric and see the opportunities, says an Australian consulting firm looking for staff in New Zealand.

Tariana Turia ...  very little in return.

Turia confirms big iwi leading Maori Party ETS policy

23 Oct 2009

The Maori Party is taking its lead from the iwi leadership group on emissions trading policy.

Charles Chauvel ... how fair is it?

Chauvel to energy leaders: ETS changes too generous to last

23 Oct 2009

It’s unfair to business to give large concessions and subsidies that won't last.

Craig Foss ... forcd to extend time.

ETS committee grants more time

23 Oct 2009

Politicians will hear more submissions next week on changes to the emissions trading scheme.

Rodney Hide - confirms Act won't vote with Government on ETS bill

Committee vote-tie could send ETS bill back with no changes

16 Oct 2009

EXCLUSIVE - The Government is facing the prospect of a vote tie which will stop any changes to ETS law emerging from select committee.

Fishing carbon quota plan splits industry

16 Oct 2009

Government plans to give some $17 million worth of free carbon credits to quota holders, instead of to the owners of fishing boats as originally planned, has divided the fishing industry.

Nick Main ... implications for business are huge.

INTERVIEW: It's time to do the hard bit, says Nick Main

16 Oct 2009

Talking about a carbon economy is easy, says expatriate New Zealander Nick Main, but doing it is the hard part.

Roger Kerr ... poor process.

Business blasts rushed changes to ETS

16 Oct 2009

The Government came under fire from business last night for rushing through changes to the emissions trading scheme.

Peter Neilson says ETS subsidies costly

Taxpayers face hefty bill from ETS subsidies, says business council

16 Oct 2009

Subsidies to heavy emitters could cost taxpayers $3.5 billion, the Business Council for Sustainable Development is warning.

'Unique' sustainability role under study

16 Oct 2009

New Zealand is a "unique" case study in the politicisation of sustainable development, say researchers at Waikato University.

Protests force slowdown on full-speed-ahead ETS

15 Oct 2009

The Government has been forced to back down over plans to restrict oral submissions on changes to the emissions trading scheme to 50 – all of which were to be heard today.

John Boscawen ... shocked and appalled.

ETS changes being rammed through, says angry Act

15 Oct 2009

The Act Party is demanding more time for oral submissions on changes to the emissions trading scheme.

Peter Neilson ... hold the phone.

Business lobby group gets a night appointment

15 Oct 2009

Business New Zealand will deliver its oral submission on changes to the emissions trading scheme tonight.

Buny McDiarmid ... waste of time.

Thanks, but no thanks, says Greenpeace

15 Oct 2009

At least one of the organisations down to give an oral submission on the emissions trading scheme is refusing to appear.

Craig Foss .. will move to hear all oral submissions in one day

NEWS ALERT: Move to hear all oral submissions in ETS bill today

15 Oct 2009

A move will be made at 1pm to have the select committee considering major emissions trading scheme changes hear all oral submissions today.

Craig Foss ... 10-minute man.

Who Foss wants to hear on the ETS today

15 Oct 2009

Carbon News has obtained the list of organisations the ETS select committee chair wants to hear from in a single day for oral submissions.

Norman...government is ramming changes through

No choice but to accept timeline, say Greens

15 Oct 2009

Oral submissions on changes to the emissions trading scheme will go ahead this afternoon, despite a lack of notice.

Nick Smith ... avalanche of documents.

Papers show initial ETS costs as high as $500m

9 Oct 2009

The Government’s changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme will cost $400m to $500m between now and the end of 2012, according to just-released Cabinet papers.

Cabinet paper reveals possible major policy shock for forestry

9 Oct 2009

The forestry industry might be in for a shock ETS policy change, Cabinet papers released today hint.

Cabinet buys a piece of string on cost of new ETS subsidies

9 Oct 2009

A cabinet paper released today confirms no work has been done to budget for the cost of extending subsidies to large emitters after 2012.

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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.

Energy
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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.

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

Mon 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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