CLIMATE CALENDAR

Tue 2 Dec 2025

The Carbon News calendar of talks, events, conferences, consultations, and petitions related to climate change.

Select committees

Scrutiny week

Environment

Annual review of the Ministry for the Environment, Thursday 4 December, 8:15am - 12:35pm

Annual review of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, Thursday 4 December, 1:45pm - 2:45pm

Annual review of the Environmental Protection Authority, Thursday 4 December, 3:05pm - 5:15pm

Primary Production
Annual review of the Ministry for Primary Industries, Thursday 4 December, 8:45am - 1:15pm

Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Friday 5 December, 9:00am - 9:45am
Minister for Rural Communities / Associate Minister of Agriculture, Friday 5 December 10:00am - 10:45am

Online events

The challenge of aviation and shipping emissions, Our Climate Declaration webinar presented by Robert McLachlan, Thursday 12 February at 7:00pm.

Fresk events: These workshops are open to the general public and are run by Climate Fresk volunteers. The workshops will teach you how climate change works and empower you to take effective action as a citizen.

Regional events

Auckland

The inaugural University of Auckland International Economics Workshop will explore the geoeconomics of the new world order, strategic industrial policy, macro-financial spillovers, and the geopolitics of trade, climate, and critical minerals, with Harvard University’s Professor Pol Antràs, Professor Stephen Redding, former New Zealand Reserve Bank Governor Dr Alan Bollard and former Chief Economist at the Bank of England, now Chief Economic Adviser at PwC, Andy Haldane. University of Auckland, December 4.

Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Challenges and Opportunities, will feature Harvard Business School Professor Laura Alfaro, who was formerly Minister of National Planning in Costa Rica, joined by former Chief Economist at the Bank of England, now Chief Economic Adviser at PwC, Andy Haldane, and Business School economics professor and member of the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee, Prasanna Gai. University of Auckland, December 4.

Environmental Defence Society and Forest & Bird's environmental summit, Grand Millennium Hotel, 24–25 June 2026.

The Climate Change and Business Conference, organised by the Environmental Defence Society, the Sustainable Business Council and the Climate Leaders Coalition, is scheduled to take place at the Viaduct Events Centre on 7-8 September 2026.

Wellington

Interactive climate change exhibition at Te Papa.

ETS auctions 2025

Upcoming: 3 December

Consultation

The Government is consulting on a formal amendment to the second emissions reduction plan to reflect its revised approach to reducing agricultural emissions. Consultation closes on 26 November.