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Media round-up

12 Sep 2025

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: Climate adaptation discussions descended into political squabbling at a recent conference; New Zealand may find itself no longer trusted by allies if it ditches climate goals; and are we living through the fastest energy transformation in human history?

Ex-climate tsar likens squabbling politicians to toddlers

By Marc Daalder, Newsroom

MPs on a climate panel managed to agree on just one point, that the government won’t be able to pay for adaptation.


Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun

By Peter Newman and Ray Wills, The Conversation

We’re living through the fastest energy transformation in human history.


Climate sabotage

By Dame Anne Salmond, Newsroom

In a globalised world, a small country that breaks ranks with its allies and trading partners is likely to find itself isolated, vulnerable to reprisals and no longer trusted.


Shane Jones calls for renationalising of power market

RNZ 

There are increasing calls for the government to take action over power prices, as surging bills have many New Zealanders – particularly those on lower and fixed incomes – feeling the strain.


Pulling out of the Paris climate deal will only become more popular

By Heather du Plessis-Allan, NZ Herald

OPINION: Act and NZ First are duking it out over who first came up with the idea of pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement.


Nature as shareholder: reimagining ownership

By Stephen Moe

As businesses pursue sustainability to ensure their resilience, a novel approach invites us to reimagine how business and nature can achieve mutual benefit.


No, national parks are not commons
By Catherine Knight, Substack
Catherine Knight responds to a RNZ review on her book, An Uncommon Land.

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Blue carbon project targets climate gains

Today 10:45am

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A new iwi-led research project exploring the climate potential of estuarine blue carbon has secured government backing, with hopes that scientists and Ngāti Rārua mapping wetland carbon storage at Te Tai Tapu could help anchor a national strategy for nature credits markets.

A matter of strategy

Today 10:45am

COMMENT: Even on the brink of a global commodities crisis, the possibilities for climate action aren't hopelessly foreclosed. Strategy can turn our fortunes around, writes David Hall.

Bigger storms, more often: new study projects likely future rainfall impacts on NZ

Today 10:45am

By Muhammad Fikri Sigid, Hamish Lewis, and Luke Harrington | In the aftermath of the latest bout of extreme rainfall across New Zealand’s upper North Island, there were some familar scenes. Submerged pastures. Silt carried by swollen rivers and piled against bridges. Floodwaters surrounding homes whose owners were forced to flee.

John Carnegie, chief executive of lobby group Energy Resources Aotearoa, led the 'fireside chat' with then- Energy Minister Simon Watts at Downstream.

Watts’s last stand: Simeon Brown takes energy portfolio

Thu 2 Apr 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | Energy Minister Simon Watts has lost the portfolio to Cabinet fixer Simeon Brown in a reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon this morning.

Greenpeace spokesperson Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn

Fonterra admits ‘100% grass-fed’ claim breached law in greenwashing row

Thu 2 Apr 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Fonterra has admitted its “100% New Zealand grass-fed” claims on Anchor butter were misleading and breached the law, settling a case brought by Greenpeace Aotearoa over packaging used between December 2023 and April 2025.

Momentum speeds up for low-emissions heavy transport

Thu 2 Apr 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand’s heavy vehicle sector is starting to move toward lower-emissions alternatives, with electric vehicles now delivering cost savings as well as lower emissions.

‘Freskival’ to bring climate workshops to communities across NZ

Thu 2 Apr 2026

A nationwide weekend of climate workshops will roll out across Aotearoa next month, with Climate Training Co launching what it says will be the country’s largest climate literacy event.

New protections for NZ migratory species under UN convention

Thu 2 Apr 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New international protections for migratory species, including several found in New Zealand, are a positive step – but global protections won’t halt the decline of migratory species on their own, experts say.

Media round-up

Thu 2 Apr 2026

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: The widening political gap is deepening cracks in NZ's climate consensus, Christchurch recorded more than 30,000 extra cycling trips over two weeks, and is the energy crisis a renewable inflection point?

Glenbrook Steel Mill was a beneficiary of the GIDI fund

Labour mulls GIDI 2.0 as factory closures mount

Wed 1 Apr 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | Factory closures across the country could have been prevented if the last Labour-led government’s GIDI fund to assist companies with the cost of electrification hadn't been scrapped, Labour energy spokesperson, Megan Woods, says.

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