Officials warn of damage to diplomatic relations in secret climate change memo
By Eloise Gibson, RNZ
Officials warned the government that reneging on climate commitments could have a domino effect and give bigger countries, like China, an excuse to do less.

An attempt to lower NZ electricity prices could end up doing the opposite – here’s why
By Richard Meade, The Conversation
In its quest to lower electricity prices for New Zealand households, the Electricity Authority may inadvertently make the situation worse.

How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’

By Kirsty Johnston, RNZ
When New Zealand passed the Zero Carbon Act in 2019, it was hailed as a world-first - a law with cross-party support that would enshrine climate ambition in legislation.

NZ-listed insurer prices in risk of sea surges and landslides, in world-first

By Jonathan Milne, Newsroom

Most of Tower’s 150,000 home insurance customers will pay less, but nearly 15,000 face higher premiums – and more than 2000 will get the call they dread in coming days

'Disaster waiting to happen': Fears carbon farming increases risk of wild fire

By Alexa Cook, RNZ
The increasing number of farms being planted in trees for carbon farming is raising fears about the spread of pests and fire risk.

We won’t always have Paris

By Alan Emerson, Farmers Weekly

The Paris Accord is fast losing credibility, but for as long as it lasts, NZ needs to be part of it.

Two-thirds of NZ’s conservation estate at risk of sale

By Melanie Nelson
Government proposal could open 5 million hectares of public land—about one-third of the South Island’s land area—to sale or exchange