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Jeanette Fitzsimons

Angry Greens ask Government: Is it us or them?

14 May 2008

The Government is in the firing line from both National and the Greens over its performance on the emissions trading scheme.

Fletcher role revealed, Government extends credit assistance further than sought

14 May 2008

The advice from Fletcher Building which helped persuade Government to make a further $1.3 billion in emission credit concessions to heavy emitters is revealed in an appendix to the interim report of the select committee considering the emissions trading bill.

Select committee probing fate of refrigeration gases in ETS

14 May 2008

The select committee considering the emissions trading bill is looking into “significant issues” including how to treat synthetic greenhouse gases.

Big landowners take centre stage at ETS hearings

14 May 2008

Some of New Zealand’s biggest land owners today will put their argument to Parliament’s finance and expenditure select committee for more flexibility under the emissions trading bill.

Government campaign urges industry to burn wood

14 May 2008

The Government is mounting a strong campaign urging industry to use wood instead of coal or oil.

OPINION: It’s time to take another look at our water

14 May 2008

The Green Party has capped any discussion of fresh water exports within the Labour-led coalition, and the National Party views the topic as a kind of Son of Nuclear issue, to be kept well clear of.

Select Committee interim report on emissions trading bill

14 May 2008

The Finance and Expenditure Select Committee has issued an 18-page interim report on the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Prefernece) bill.

Andrew Little

Rio Tinto joins 'capital strike' game, says union leader

13 May 2008

Rio Tinto’s threat to close the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is the latest move in a “capital strike” campaign by heavy greenhouse-gas emitters to get their own way over the emissions trading scheme, says EPMU national secretary Andrew Little.

Playing Bluff over smelter... the main submissions seeks more taxpayer aid

Smelter submission actually supports ETS, makes special pleadings

13 May 2008

ANALYSIS. - The operator of New Zealand’s only aluminium smelter supports New Zealand’s desire to introduce an emissions trading scheme.

Forest owners tell ETS body: Our burden is unfair

13 May 2008

The forestry industry’s displeasure at being the only sector left in the early stages of the emissions trading scheme reached Parliament yesterday.

Nick Main

Little point in NZ carbon trading currency, says business group

13 May 2008

A second major business group is suggesting that New Zealand should be using international carbon instruments instead of creating its own currency.

Shock shipping news puts New Zealand on the spot

13 May 2008

A United Nations study that claims the true scale of CO2 emissions from shipping is three times higher than previously thought, is bad news for New Zealand.

The Business Roundtable writes

13 May 2008

References to the Business Roundtable in your editorial of April 29, 2008 were drawn to my attention.

Dairy operator eyes $75m loss without forestry offset scheme

12 May 2008

The emissions trading scheme could cost the owners of one of New Zealand’s biggest dairy conversions $75 million and see prime pastoral farmland remain locked-up in plantation forest unless a forestry offset scheme is introduced.

Nick Smith

Nats deny any ETS deal with Government

12 May 2008

National is denying reports that it is gearing up to do a deal with Labour over the emission trading scheme, and the Government isn’t commenting.

Bunny McDiarmid

Most Kiwis believe big emitters running the climate change show

12 May 2008

Most New Zealanders think that big greenhouse-gas emitters are calling the shots on the country’s climate change policy, and a Labour-Green coalition is seen as the best combination to manage change, according to a new poll.

John Key ... considers delay leadership

Can National really make the tough calls on climate change?

12 May 2008

ANALYSIS – National may be showing it really doesn’t want to act on climate change.

Gordon Ramsay

Celebrity chef could cook up a storm for our food exporters

12 May 2008

Suggestions by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay that British restaurants should be fined for having imported food on their menus are a sign of the misguided Northern Hemisphere perception of the environmental impact of the international food trade, and are potentially damaging to New Zealand, says Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Peter Silcock.

New poll: Kiwis like ETS delays but want heavy emitters to pay now

9 May 2008

New Zealanders approve of the Government’s billion-dollar decision to delay bringing transport into the emissions trading scheme – but think that heavy emitters should be facing the cost of their emissions now.

Simon Terry

Transport delay seen as threat to carbon currency

9 May 2008

The viability of the proposed New Zealand carbon currency, NZU, is threatened by the Government’s decision to delay bringing transport into the emissions trading scheme for another two years, says the Sustainability Council.

Don Elder

Government disputes $80b 'carbon tax' windfall claim

9 May 2008

The Government is disputing a suggestion by Solid Energy chief Don Elder that it could stand to make $80 billion from New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme.

ANALYSIS: Will Don Elder today spell out his dream for New Zealand?

9 May 2008

What did Don Elder hope to achieve by assuming a carbon price of $200 per tonne and almost nil-emissions reduction – to produce a result showing the Government could make a surplus of up to $80 billion from its emissions trading scheme?

Petrify, liquefy: New ways to bury greenhouse gas

9 May 2008

Turn greenhouse gases to stone? Transform them into a treacle-like liquid deep under the seabed? The ideas may sound like far-fetched schemes from an alchemist's notebook, but scientists are pursuing them as many countries prepare to bury captured greenhouse gases in coming years as part of the fight against global warming.

EXCLUSIVE: Top Fletcher officers played key role in ETS policy switch

8 May 2008

Highly reliable sources have told Carbon News that two senior Fletcher Building executives, Jonathan Ling and Hans Buwalda, were the key players in successfully lobbying Climate Change Minister David Parker for major changes to the emissions trading scheme, announced on Tuesday.

Mark Weldon

NZX chief: Here's our big chance to impress the Americans

8 May 2008

New Zealand has a chance to build a strong relationship with the United States over greenhouse-gas emissions trading by being the first country to bring agriculture and forestry into the scheme, says NZX chief Mark Weldon.

Big players put cases to ETS select committee

8 May 2008

The select committee hearing submissions on the emissions trading bill is in for an interesting day today, with energy producers, users and lobbyists lining up to make submissions.

Capital developer creating ‘first true green building’

8 May 2008

Leading restoration developer Ian Cassells is highlighting New Zealand’s “phony” approach to green building by developing the country’s first office-as-a-village, which will eliminate car emissions by having people live, work and play in the same place.

Roger Dickie ... few new forests will be planted

Government ETS moves will batter forestry Kyoto credit values

7 May 2008

Forest owners expect the value of their hard-won Kyoto carbon credits to plummet as a result of yesterday’s announced changes to the emissions trading scheme, with the likely result that few new forests will be planted.

Mark Weldon

Stock exchange chief looks to the futures

7 May 2008

NZX chief Mark Weldon says that changes to the timetable for implementation of the emissions trading scheme will move demand from a spot market to a futures market.

Nick Smith ... we can wait

Non-committal Nats happy to play the waiting game

7 May 2008

National says it is carefully avoiding “running the politics” on climate change and won’t finalise its climate-change policy until at least July, when it sees Australia’s proposals.

Jeanette Fitzsimons

Government allies vent their anger

7 May 2008

Government moves to delay the impact of the emissions trading scheme on big-business and motorists have earned anger from allies, with the Green Party threatening to pull its support.

Political considerations driving the wrong choices

Pandering, polluting, unprincipled – and popular

7 May 2008

ANALYSIS – The Government yesterday gave control over New Zealand’s transport fuel emissions to the offshore oil markets.

Changes not enough, NZ Steel tells government

7 May 2008

New Zealand Steel will today tell the Government that it still wants an exemption from the emissions trading scheme - despite Government moves yesterday to soften the impact of the scheme on big emitters.

Nigel Brunel ... buy now

Heavy-emitters should buy now, says carbon trader

6 May 2008

New Zealand’s top 200 greenhouse-gas heavy emitters should be buying carbon credits now to protect against likely price rises as the emission trading scheme starts to kick in, says a leading leading carbon trader.

Unions, company worried about ETs-induced job losses at steel mill

6 May 2008

Unions say they are concerned about the potential impact of the emissions trading scheme on the Glenbrook Steel mill, and say that the potential impact on jobs and manufacturing capacity needs to be considered.

Food exporters need help measuring carbon footprint

6 May 2008

The poster-guys of New Zealand’s carbon-neutral scene, Marlborough’s Grove Mill winery, say that Government support is needed if New Zealand exporters are to be ready to counteract growing Northern Hemisphere perceptions that buying our food is bad for the climate.

NZ Steel's Glenbrook mill ... will say it will lose $60m a year under ETS

ETS hearings hit Auckland

6 May 2008

Hearings into the proposed emissions trading scheme move to Auckland tomorrow, with Air New Zealand, Greenpeace, Fletcher Building, the Maori Council and New Zealand Steel among those lining up to tell the politicians what they think if it.

Nick Smith .. a raft of polices looking "shaky"

Change in policies and pace call after Kyoto bill breaks billion dollar barrier

6 May 2008

Government is being urged to more quickly adopt emission-cutting policies, like public transport and home insulation, to help avert part of the now billion dollar Kyoto climate change bill, while National is calling for "a new direction".

Californian coastal redwoods

Forest giant could be carbon-saving crop of the future

5 May 2008

Foresters wanting to cash in on the carbon trading regime are being told to think Californian coastal redwoods.

Nation’s biggest newspaper comes out for Forum advice on emissions trading scheme

5 May 2008

ANALYSIS: The New Zealand Herald today came out in support for the emissions trading scheme course advocated in advice to the Government last week by the powerful Climate Change Leadership Forum.

ETS threatens viability of $400m plant, says cement maker

5 May 2008

The emissions trading scheme threatens the viability of a planned $US400 million cement plant which would actually reduce overall greenhouse-gas emissions, warns cement manufacturer Holcim New Zealand.

Ian Twomey

NZ expert sees third way for troubled biofuels

5 May 2008

From economic saviour to planet disaster, biofuels have had a whirlwind public relations ride.

$200,000 grant backs computer collection scheme

5 May 2008

A community collection scheme for keeping end-of-life home computers out of landfills has been backed by a $200,000 grant from the Government’s Sustainable Management Fund.

Charlie Pedersen ... it's time

'Enemies' unite in plea for leadership on climate change

2 May 2008

Two lobbyists usually found on opposite sides came together last night in a call for national leadership, co-operation and unity on climate change for the sake of all New Zealanders.

Crest Energy ready to power up the Kaipara

2 May 2008

Crest Energy plans to construct a marine turbine power generation plant in the Kaipara Harbour. The scheme will encompass around 200 completely submerged marine tidal turbines near the entrance to the harbour.

Waihopai spy base intact

Waihopai attack might hurt big global warming probe

2 May 2008

The attack on the satellite earth station at Waihope, near Blenheim, could have imperiled New Zealand participation in what many believe to be the most sensitive and complex scientific study of global warming.

Halal butcher

Exporter: Food miles ploy major threat to UK halal meat trade

2 May 2008

Meat exporter Dr Haj Mohamed Samy Abdel-Al believes that the food miles syndrome underpins criticism in Britain of halal foods from New Zealand.

Tree-mendous ... Charles to check on our forests

2 May 2008

Internal Affairs officials are in the early planning stages for a visit by the Prince of Wales and they have been advised by their UK counterparts it will be all business, rainforest business.

NZIER sets cat among political pigeons

1 May 2008

Two days after being revealed exclusively by Carbon News, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research’s (NZIER’s) report into the costs of the Government’s planned emissions trading scheme (ETS) is sending shock-waves through Parliament.

Local Government NZ chief executive Eugene Bowen

Emissions-trading impacts on regional agenda

1 May 2008

Worried regional leaders gathering in Wellington tonight will discuss a report that predicts some far-flung regions will be hardest hit by the emissions trading scheme.

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Riwaka Sandy Bay Road during recent flooding

'Back-to-basics' approach for councils ignores climate risk

Fri 11 Jul 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | While ACT is standing local government candidates to oppose councils' attempts to manage emissions and ministers are calling for local authorities to 'get back to basics' - or even suggesting scrapping regional councils altogether - one expert says this narrative is putting communities at risk in the face of climate change.

Energy
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Fast, sustained phase-out of fossil fuels: best-performing countries in coal and transport sectors

Thu 10 Jul 2025

By Robert McLachlan | It’s true that climate change is getting worse – it will continue to get worse until emissions fall to near zero. But is action on phasing out fossil fuels really stalling?

Agriculture
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Clear-sighted view to trade-offs crucial to reimagining our relationship with the land

Mon 7 Jul 2025

By Nick Swallow | COMMENT: New Zealand could see a 70% drop in the value of dairy land if we pursue our emissions targets for agriculture, according to a new report.

Carbon emissions
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Mangroves' overlooked climate role

30 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand’s mangrove forests are pulling tens of thousands of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year, yet their climate benefits remain unrecognised in national emissions reporting.

Transport
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How flying can be a climate solution

16 Jun 2025

By Paul Callister and Robert McLachlan - Planetary Ecology | How can aviation contribute to tackling climate change when no practicable technology-based solutions are on the horizon?

Forestry
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Emissions Trading Scheme needs deep reform - commissioner

Fri 11 Jul 2025

The government’s attempt to limit forestry conversions on rural land is unlikely to lead to meaningful change, according to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.

Business
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NZ Post drops science-based climate target

Tue 8 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | NZ Post has dropped its science-based emissions reduction target of 42% by 2030 with no plans to replace it.

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