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ANALYSIS: World food problem: Business as usual not an option

18 Apr 2008

By Lester R. Brown - A fast-unfolding food shortage is engulfing the entire world, driving food prices to record highs.

Biofuels target of protests in UK

18 Apr 2008

London - There have been demonstrations in London and groups across the UK also protested against the introduction of mandatory biofuel blending.

Smith ... Government should reveal its advice on revenue from ETS

Smith: Government should be ‘up front’ over ETS costs and impacts, criticises 20 day media ban

17 Apr 2008

Opposition climate change spokesperson Nick Smith is urging the Government to come clean and tell the public exactly what advice it has about how much money the Government will make from the auctioning of permits under the proposed emissions trading scheme.

Contact Energy not defying thermal ban

17 Apr 2008

Contact Energy’s acquisition of two additional 100mw gas-fired power generation turbines does not breach the Government’s 10-year ban on new thermal power generation, the company told Carbon News last night.

Cullen ... does he know about a 20 day reply ban?

Ministerial press secretaries impose up to 20 day information ban on Carbon News

17 Apr 2008

Two Ministerial press secretaries have said they will restrict the flow of information to Carbon News.

David Parker: will he say what the Government will do with ETS windfall?

The questions we have asked Minister Parker

17 Apr 2008

Here are the questions Carbon News has asked Climate Change Minister David Parker.

Defence building in "War and Peace" centre disappoints

State landlords must go green

17 Apr 2008

Go Green or flag away your state tenants. The massive over-building of state office accommodation in Wellington is designed to ensure that public servants from 2010 onward will toil only in green buildings.

Inquiry into special pleading for big EU emitters

EU officials investigate competitiveness issues arising from ETS plan

17 Apr 2008

European Union (EU) officials from the European Climate Change Programme (ECCP) in the past few days have initiated a program to identify which energy-intensive industries might need protection as a result of the EU's recently proposed tougher greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions controls.

Air New Zealand .. relief in sight on double-jeopardy ETS with Europe?

EU will leave ETS breathing room for foreign airlines

17 Apr 2008

Europe will leave breathing room for non-European carriers if their homeland adopts an emissions trading scheme (ETS).

Treasury information "now the select committee's" at Parliament..

EXCLUSIVE: Treasury responds on ETS windfall, but defers to select committeee

16 Apr 2008

The Treasury reckons it’s easy as anything to work out how much the Government will make in windfall revenues selling carbon credits, but it still shrinks from putting a figure on it.

Brownleee .. Mallard indicates Mohikinui a no-goer

‘Mokihinui doomed by RMA if not by Mallard’

16 Apr 2008

Meridian Energy’s embarrassment over a negative biodiversity report on the state-owned electricity generator’s Mokihinui River hydro scheme means the Government will pull the plug on it, National Party energy spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says.

Sustainability Council ... no need to subsidise inhibitors

MAF report prompts call to include agriculture in ETS "now"

16 Apr 2008

The Sustainability Council says MAF’s report on the effects of the ETS on farm profits shows there’s no justification for delaying agriculture’s inclusion in the scheme.

Atiamuri on the Waikato .. consent renewal highlights RMA issues

Labour’s energy strategy in tatters, Brownlee says

16 Apr 2008

The prospect of power cuts this winter in the context of the 10-year ban on new thermal power stations shows the Government’s energy strategy is in tatters, National Party energy spokesperson Gerry Brownlee told Carbon News last night.

David Baldwin ... role of thermal changing

Contact signs contracts in $250 million peaking plant project

16 Apr 2008

Two hundred megawatts of highly efficient gas-fired peaking capacity to support increasing levels of renewable electricity generation have come a step closer, with Contact Energy executing contracts to purchase two fast-start gas turbine peaking units.

Tony Nowell ... sector needs to meet and beat its targets

Government working on eco claim system, Mallard may look at new accord on packaging

16 Apr 2008

Environment Minister Trevor says the government is on a system to verify eco-claims being made on all goods and services.

Packaging ... the bill is coming, prudent to plan cuts now

Business Council: waste levy will will pass, start work on reducing waste

16 Apr 2008

Businesses would be wise to start looking at how to reduce waste to landfill, given waste and emissions charges likely to be levied here.

Nick Smith ... question elicit $21.4 billion revenue revelation

FINALLY IT IS OUT: Emissions trading windfall estimate now tops $21b

15 Apr 2008

Further evidence of massive revenues - as much as $21.4 billion - accruing to the Government from trading carbon permits after 2013 emerged at the select committee hearing into the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill in Auckland yesterday.

Auckland airport ... faces higher untility costs, wants market intervention

Auckland airport: $30 per tonne will mean $68 under ETS plan

15 Apr 2008

Auckland Airport Limited says it will effectively face an emissions price of $60 a tonne, instead of $30, if it stays out of the emissions trading scheme.

MP predicts bail out on bio fuel imports

MP: Parachutes coming out on bio fuel imports

15 Apr 2008

Special correspondent.- Members of Parliament on all sides of the fence are seeing the political fishhooks in the government’s desire to import biofuels.

MoGAS ... carbon counter developed for 27 EU countries , using 21 languages

Personal carbon counter coming by year's end

15 Apr 2008

A personal carbon counter developed by a consortium under EU sponsorship will be marketed in New Zealand before the end of this year.

Gaddum .. back to the emission-firnedly "village pump"

Now fresh water without high emission bottles

15 Apr 2008

To conform to the marketing-imposed fashion to drink bottled water on the hoof, consumers greatly add to a number of other problems such as landfill capacity, littering and carbon dioxide emissions.

Lake Taupo .. seasonal inflows lowest ever recorded

Drought sparks winter electricity contigency planning

15 Apr 2008

Transpower says the electricity industryis contingency planning for what measures could be put in place this winter, if the current severe drought conditions continue and the hydro lakes remain low.

Sir David ... from university to government, now UBS

UBS picks up Sir David King

15 Apr 2008

UBS announced yesterday the appointment of Sir David King as a Senior Scientific Advisor to the group and its clients, advising on all scientific matters with particular emphasis in global climate change.

The US emissions map

CO2 emission mapping of continental US

15 Apr 2008

A new map service is offering more than 100 times the detail of previous inventories of carbon dioxide being emitted in the continental United States.

Surpise MAF report: emision reduction measures will boost dairy incomes 30% under ETS

EXCLUSIVE: 'Surprise' MAF report shows some farms will profit from ETS

14 Apr 2008

Already well-off dairy farmers could get a 30 per cent profit boost from the ETS, according to an apparently prematurely released Government report.

Todd Energy exploration .. on-going domestic market for gas threatened by thermal  power ban

Thermal ban ‘will kill oil exploration’ – Todd

14 Apr 2008

Oil exploration off the Taranaki coast will be killed by the Government’s proposed 10-year ban on new thermal power stations, the chief executive of Todd Energy, Richard Tweedie, told Carbon News.

Helen Clark ... "it can't be busines as usual"

Clark: Jury out on opponents' support for ETS, climate change policies

14 Apr 2008

In her speech to the Labour Congress at the weekend, Prime Minister Helen Clark defended her Government’s research and development funding, aimed at the pastoral and food sectors - and laid down a challenge to her political opponents to back the ETS legislation now before Parliament.

John Key .. finding an audience of convern over allegedly "re-badged" money

National scents votes in $700m R and D "pork barrel"

14 Apr 2008

Opposition leader John Key is surprised the amount of traction he is getting from his outright condemnation of the government’s $700 million research announced for agriculture.

Waikato University engineering students' hybrid car ... to receive state encouragement?

"Philips" technique to be repeated in encouraging low-emission cars?

14 Apr 2008

Urged on by the Greens, the government is becoming daily more intent on twisting the arms of the car importers to get alternately-propelled car production off the test benches and into car showrooms.

Rotorua ... pioneering boosts de-nitrification by 33% plus

Rotorua breakthrough: methanol removing wastewater nitrates

14 Apr 2008

Rotorua municipal officials have pioneered methanol as an alternate carbon source in taking the nitrates out of wastewater.

Seddonville ... Mohikinui River hydro project focus of objection

Forest and Bird supports request to call in Mokihinui consent

14 Apr 2008

Forest & Bird supports the request by West Coast councils for the Environment Minister to “call in” Meridian’s resource consent application to build a hydro dam on the Mokihinui River.

Chinese coal mine .. Australia investing in clean coal project

Australia goes one up with China on climate change co-operation

14 Apr 2008

Australia and China yesterday announced Australia will invest about A$20 million into a Chinese project which aims to develop clean coal technology

Cullen .. his office and Treasury deny information at hand on ETS windfall

EXCLUSIVE: $18b windfall for NZ government from ETS

11 Apr 2008

CARBON NEWS INQUIRY - The New Zealand Government’s coffers will be boosted by $18b in windfall revenues from sales of carbon credits between 2013 and 2024, according to privileged information obtained by Carbon News.

Glenbrook .. profit hit by $60m a year at $30mt carbon price

ETS will hit steel mill profits by $60m a year - $1 billion investment deferred

11 Apr 2008

MPs have been told a $1 billion decision to invest in New Zealand’s Glenbrook steel mill depends on the shape of the final emissions trading legislation, and the new regime might also lead to the mill’s closure.

EXCLUSIVE: Cook Strait tidal test turbine gains resource consent

11 Apr 2008

A New Zealand marine energy industry has come a step closer with the granting yesterday of resource consent for a tidal flow turbine in Cook Strait.

Welington airport and lines companies included in new bill

New price control and investment law for utilities

11 Apr 2008

Infrastructure businesses like electricity lines companies and airports will gain improved incentives to innovate and invest while giving consumers protection from excessive prices and poor quality, under a Bill amending the Commerce Act introduced to Parliament yesterday.

Wayne Norrie ... buying an existing forest doesn't do much extra for emissions

Carbon neutrality? What about 400% electricity use cut instead?

11 Apr 2008

Wayne Norrie, chief executive of data centre outsourcing company Revera, says he’s totally frustrated by a less-than-holistic picture about carbon neutrality.

Wind farm 10km off the Dutch coast ... NZ research aims for sites further offshore

Auckland University aims for floating turbine breakthrough

11 Apr 2008

A University of Auckland engineering doctoral student has received a $75,000 thee-year government scholarship to study the feasibility of floating wind turbines.

Kiwi renewable generators comparatively hard done by in terms of credit hand outs?

No European-like second phase windfall profits for NZ generators

10 Apr 2008

European electricity generators are in line for massive windfall profits of around $140 billion over the next four years, but their vastly more environment-friendly New Zealand counterparts can expect no such largesse.

David Parker ... "guidance" work well advanced

Local authorities to get message on renewables

10 Apr 2008

The Government is to crack the whip over territorial authorities to ensure they get behind Labour’s goal of having 90% of the country’s power generation capacity from renewable sources by 2025.

Windflow .. more work for its Christchurch team

Kiwi-based Windflow Technology does $12m plus turbine deal with Te Rere Hau

10 Apr 2008

Windflow Technology has received confirmation of an order for a further 16 Windflow 500 turbines.

Oslo ... emission neutral by 2030

So just how does a country go 'carbon neutral'?

10 Apr 2008

The New Zealand Government says it aspires to be carbon neutral but has yet to say exactly how and by when.

Spread out the wind farms .. and generate 20%

US expert: No technical barrier to 20% wind power goal in NZ

10 Apr 2008

There are no fundamental technical barriers to the integration of 20% wind energy into the electrical system in New Zealand, according to a visiting US wind energy expert.

A unique double counting issue for Kiwis in the world's first all-sector ETS

Major puzzle for Kiwi ETS pioneers: who pays who what (twice)

10 Apr 2008

Some New Zealand businesses are facing a potential tangle over how to avoid double counting their emissions as a result of the country’s world-first move to include all greenhouse gases in all sectors.

Petitions for new law on US airline GHG emissions

US concerned over EU airline emissions charge plan, starts probe into airline pollution

10 Apr 2008

The United States is expressing “serious concern” over EU proposals to impose emissions charges on airlines.

David Baldwin ... positioning Contact well for carbon trading

Contact No1 in electricity hedge market services

10 Apr 2008

New research has confirmed that Contact is rated number one in the delivery of electricity hedge market services.

Trouble in West Papua paradise for BP?

BP warned of political troubles in West Papua LNG project

10 Apr 2008

Human rights groups have warned UK-based supermajor BP that the $6 billion Tangguh liquefied natural gas project in West Papua, risks becoming embroiled in the province's volatile politics.

Dunajtschik .. even future-proofing the carparks in case public transport takes over

Dunajtschik: The shy man behind the nation's newest, biggest green building

10 Apr 2008

Publicity-shy Mark Dunajtschik, an Austrian by birth, is now often considered the only individual in New Zealand who can cause a major new building to happen on the strength of a handshake

NEW: Carbon market jobs

10 Apr 2008

The growing carbon market needs skilled people.

NZ expoerts will feel the cost if shipping including in EU ETS

PWC expert: Exporters to feel bite of any EU shipping emissions move

9 Apr 2008

The likely inclusion of shipping in the European Union (EU) emissions trading scheme (ETS) looks set to hit New Zealand exporters in the pocket – and international airline passengers could be next to shell out for their carbon footprint.

Politics
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New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen

International group urges PM to strengthen climate targets

Today 11:00am

By Liz Kivi | An international group of New Zealanders working on climate change issues has written to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon warning him against weakening climate targets.

Energy
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Electricity Authority maps out battery storage boost to back up renewables

Today 11:00am

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Electricity Authority has released a draft roadmap outlining how it plans to accelerate the rollout of battery energy storage systems over the next two years, in a bid to future proof New Zealand’s electricity grid as the country shifts to more intermittent renewable energy sources.

Agriculture
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Climate change and energy minister Simon Watts announcing the solar package at Fieldays

Flurry of govt announcements at Fieldays

12 Jun 2025

The government has come up with a solar energy package for farms, a new grass-fed certification scheme for meat and dairy, and a supplier agreement for carpets in new state homes - all part of the annual flurry of politicians’ Fieldays announcements.

Carbon emissions
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Mangroves' overlooked climate role

Mon 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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Bill to limit farm-to-forest conversions passes first reading

Fri 27 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The government's bill aiming to limit farm-to-forestry conversions in the Emissions Trading Scheme passed its first reading in Parliament this week, however concerns were raised over rushing it through under urgency, with less than two weeks allowed for public submissions.

Business
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IRD will stop using wetland destruction in ‘how-to’ for claiming expenses

Fri 27 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | Environmental organisation Forest & Bird has welcomed the Inland Revenue’s decision to stop using wetland destruction as an example of a tax-deductible agricultural expense in future guidance.

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