Govt prepared to ‘pull the trigger’ on offshore carbon credits – Watts
By Marc Daalder, Newsroom
Simon Watts acknowledged he may face ‘challenging’ conversations with Pacific nations at the COP30 climate summit over the Govt’s policies.

'Embarrassing’: International climate expert at COP30 scorns NZ’s methane target

By Kate Newton, RNZ
New Zealand's climbdown on its methane emissions target and an agricultural emissions tax is dangerous and embarrassing, an international climate science and policy expert says.

Integrity Briefing: Don't get fooled on climate change again
By Bruce Edwards, The Integrity Institute
New Zealand’s landmark Zero Carbon Act was gutted this week, and hardly anyone even noticed. There’s not been a lot of media coverage of it, and even less debate. The winners of this, and other recent climate change reforms, are the powerful corporates who wanted an easier ride at the public’s expense.

Green finance was supposed to contribute solutions to climate change. So far, it’s fallen well short
By Simon O'Connor, Ben Neville & Brendan Wintle, interest.co.nz

Despite nearly a decade of action in sustainable finance, the extensive policy work delivered to fix this tragedy has merely subdued the symptoms, but to date has not overcome the core of the problem.

Climate change minister defends weakened methane emissions target ahead of COP30
By Kate Newton, RNZ
Technology, rather than taxing methane emissions, will be what brings New Zealand's agricultural emissions down, the climate change minister says.

Bye-bye bi-partisan climate pact
By Vernon Small, Sunday Star Times

It’s not clear whether the political consensus on net-zero climate change emissions is still alive or whether its corpse is simply being chauffeured around by the coalition to convince us – and the world – that it still has a beating heart.

Sea level rise 'a very complicated area of science', renowned climate scientist says
By Kate Green, RNZ

Despite New Zealanders' affinity with the great white continent, Edwards explains scientists now think far-off places like Greenland are more likely to affect sea-level rise around our shores.