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Topics tagged with 'Adaptation'

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Auckland Council opens $1m Climate and Emergency Readiness Fund

Wed 4 Feb 2026

Community groups across Tāmaki Makaurau are being invited to apply for a new $1 million Climate and Emergency Readiness Fund, designed to support locally led action on climate change, disaster preparedness and climate adaptation.

ICNZ chief executive Kris Faafoi

Kiwis want Govt investment to reduce climate risk

Mon 2 Feb 2026

New Zealanders strongly support proactive efforts to reduce the risks from climate related events like flooding, landslips and sea level rise and keep communities safe, according to a new survey.

Commentators slam Govt inaction in aftermath of climate change-fuelled storms

30 Jan 2026

By Liz Kivi | Climate action - or inaction - is shaping up to be an election issue, with multiple commentators drawing a line between the Coalition Government’s backsliding on climate targets and the deadly extreme weather events of the past week.

Ōtara homeowner lays bare cost of flood-proofing as council confirms no private funding

30 Jan 2026

Taelegalolo'u Mary Afemata | A lifelong Ōtara resident is using her family home as a real-world example of what flood resilience looks like in practice.

Media round-up

30 Jan 2026

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: A climate scientist says it's not too late for people to reduce emissions and slow the effects of climate change, forestry urges Government to remove legal accountability for slash, and which regions lead NZ in rooftop solar – and which ones lag behind?

Kawau Island

New Auckland alliance to accelerate nature regeneration

29 Jan 2026

Auckland Council alongside the Sustainable Business Network have launched the Tāmaki Taiao Alliance, a new collaboration designed to accelerate nature regeneration at scale across Tāmaki Makaurau.

Farm-level emissions cuts possible, but almost everything stands in the way

18 Dec 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Progress to slash farming emissions is being blocked by limited farmer confidence in mitigation tools, inconsistent engagement, misinformation and a lack of clear policy signals, according to a new report.

RMA’s successors hinge on two untested bets

17 Dec 2025

Two ideas sit at the heart of the Government’s replacement for the Resource Management Act: regulatory relief and spatial planning.

Communities must be central to climate adaptation strategies – 10 insights to guide national policy

17 Dec 2025

Discussions about how New Zealand should adapt to a changing climate have been going on for more than two decades.

Govt consulting on Pacific Resilience Facility

12 Dec 2025

The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee is calling for submissions on its international treaty examination of the Agreement to Establish the Pacific Resilience Facility.

Dr Rod Carr working in his previous role as Climate Change Commission chair

Ticking time-bomb in Govt’s failure of leadership on climate – Carr

9 Dec 2025

By Liz Kivi | The coalition Government’s failure to slash emissions is like pulling the pin on a grenade, handing it to a kid, and saying “hold on tight, she’ll be right”, says former Climate Change Commission chair Rod Carr.

More Aucklanders than ever taking climate action

8 Dec 2025

Media release: Auckland Council | Aucklanders are embracing climate action in record numbers, with more people getting involved each year and the momentum is building.

‘The effects are already here’: Northland communities face the realities of a changed climate

5 Dec 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Te Taitokerau Northland is facing more intense storms, rising temperatures and shifting seasons – pressures that are reshaping communities, ecosystems, infrastructure and livelihoods across the region, according to a new case study from the Climate Change Commission.

No mow trials at Carterton’s parks aim to encourage more wild flowers to grow, helping the area’s ecosystems.

No mow trials, recycled bags: Carterton's push for climate adaption

5 Dec 2025

Sue Teodoro, Local Democracy Reporter | A Wairarapa council’s climate-change adaptation programme is showing early signs of success.

Govt slashes environmental funding by $1 billion

25 Nov 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Central government funding for the environment is set to fall by a quarter in 2025/26, prompting warnings that hard-won environmental improvements may now stall or reverse.

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts (right) with the Prime Minister of Niue, Dalton Tagelagi.

NZ fails to back ‘roadmap’ to phase out fossil fuels at COP

24 Nov 2025

By Liz Kivi | Eighty-six countries including Australia, the UK, Germany, and Ireland backed a proposal at COP30 for national plans on how to quit oil, gas and coal – but New Zealand wasn’t one of them.

NZ drops in global climate rankings as govt 'propels country backwards'

19 Nov 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand has fallen to 44th place in global climate rankings, with the country’s climate policy rated “very low” amid widespread rollbacks of environmental protections.

Media round-up

14 Nov 2025

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: Simon Watts acknowledges he may face ‘challenging’ conversations with Pacific nations at COP30, New Zealand's climbdown on its methane emissions target is "embarrassing", and corporates are the real winners of the gutting of the Zero Carbon Act this week.

Distinguished Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman

Building resilient cities in a time of climate change

13 Nov 2025

Media release: Otago University | Local and international experts are meeting in Wellington this month to share their knowledge on creating healthier, more resilient cities in the face of the challenges posed by climate change.

Oxfam urges NZ to renew climate funding as Pacific projects face closure

12 Nov 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Oxfam Aotearoa is calling on the Government to urgently renew New Zealand’s climate finance commitments, warning that vital projects supporting Pacific communities’ resilience are running out of funding.

New national dataset to unlock blue carbon potential in NZ’s coastal wetlands

12 Nov 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Ministry for the Environment and the Nature Conservancy have collaborated on a dataset to inform a framework to potentially include coastal wetlands into compliance and voluntary carbon credit schemes.

Is climate law change a first nail in the coffin for Climate Commission?

6 Nov 2025

The Government’s sweeping overhaul of New Zealand’s climate laws has drawn sharp condemnation, with one expert predicting it's another step towards 'the beginning of the end' for the Climate Change Commission.

Govt weakens climate legislation, strips CCC’s powers

5 Nov 2025

By Liz Kivi | The Government has announced sweeping changes to key climate legislation, including stripping the independent Climate Change Commission of one of its core roles, and removing the requirement that Emissions Trading Scheme settings align with international climate targets.

Te Ngaengae Pool and Fitness aimed to be New Zealand’s most sustainable pool when it opened last year, through reduced carbon emissions and lower energy use.

Hutt City Council slashes gas emissions

3 Nov 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Hutt City Council is set to cut its gas emissions by 60% by 2026 as it speeds up phasing out fossil fuels from public facilities.

Ardern: 'We must not give up on 1.5'

31 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Former prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern says the world must not abandon the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal, warning that a decade on from COP21 “too many of the debates we thought were settled are still being had.”

'Little to be hopeful about' – NZ scientists caution ahead of COP30

31 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Record heat, worsening climate impacts and global backsliding on emission reduction commitments have left some New Zealand climate experts with little optimism as COP30 approaches.

Media round-up

31 Oct 2025

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: A controversial seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows knocking over rigs and damaging wind turbines; weather-related insurance claims climb; and is the government playing Russian Roulette with our future over methane targets?

Photo by Iqro Rinaldi on Unsplash

Developing countries will need US$310 billion annually for climate adaptation by 2035

31 Oct 2025

Media release - UN Environment Programme: Slow climate adaptation is threatening lives and economies.

Waimauku flooding during Cyclone Gabrielle

$235 billion worth of NZ buildings exposed to flooding

30 Oct 2025

More than 750,000 New Zealanders live in locations exposed to one-in-100-year floods, according to a nationwide study which shows escalating flood risk.

Matthew Cowie, climate change and sustainability services at EY

Taxonomy seen as key to shaping NZ’s voluntary nature credit market

30 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Experts say aligning the New Zealand Sustainable Finance Taxonomy with the development of voluntary nature credit markets could strengthen credibility, streamline investment, and support high-integrity environmental outcomes.

Vero warns losses to rise 26% by 2050 over extreme weather

29 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Extreme weather could drive a 19–26% spike in annual insurance losses by 2050, fuelled by rising seas and more intense flooding, according to Vero’s latest Climate-Related Disclosures Report.

Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter

Bill to ban new coal mines fails at first reading

24 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A bid to outlaw new coal mines was defeated at its first hurdle in Parliament this week, after a heated debate pitting climate imperatives against energy security and affordability.

Carbon Finance Program upscales efforts to close climate investment gap in climate vulnerable nations

22 Oct 2025

Media release | The Climate Vulnerable Forum and its V20 Finance Ministers (CVF-V20) will work with the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) to upscale the Carbon Finance Program in reach and impact, supporting more climate-vulnerable countries to host high-integrity carbon projects that yield tangible climate, nature, and sustainable development benefits.

‘Pathetic': experts slam govt’s approach to adaptation

20 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | The government has signalled it will step back from full property buyouts if assets are hit by climate disasters, a move adaptation experts say will condemn hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders to a “dismal” future.

Govt unveils National Adaptation Framework

16 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Minister of Climate Change Simon Watts has revealed the first actions under New Zealand’s National Adaptation Framework, which sets out the Government's approach to the rising risks from natural hazards such as floods and storms.

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts (front right) alongside Agriculture Minister Todd McLay announcing the controversial new methane target on Sunday.

Where’s Watts? Climate Minister no-show at climate conference

16 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | Opposition parties have slammed the Climate Change Minister’s failure to front up to a major international conference in Christchurch, saying it shows that climate adaptation is a low priority for the National Party.

Dr Maina Talia, Tuvalu’s Minister for Climate Change, speaking at the Adaptation Futures 2025 Conference in Christchurch on Monday.

‘Weird and sad’ – Tuvalu Climate Minister condemns NZ halving methane target

15 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | Dr Maina Talia, Tuvalu’s Minister for Home Affairs, Climate Change, and Environment, says he’s surprised at New Zealand’s decision to weaken its target for reducing methane emissions – and is planning to take up the issue with his counterpart Climate Minister Simon Watts this week.

Who pays – and who makes them pay – for climate adaptation?

15 Oct 2025

By David Hall | COMMENT: How do you make a person, or organisation, invest in climate adaptation?

Tom Logan

New tool to map risk, plan climate adaptation

14 Oct 2025

Researchers from the University of Canterbury have unveiled a new platform that aims to help communities, councils and organisations navigate climate change and plan for future events.

Northland builds momentum on climate resilience and adaptation

13 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Northland Regional Council’s Annual Report cites major gains in climate action – highlighting stronger flood resilience, an expanded Climate Resilient Communities Fund, and a region-wide adaptation strategy.

Amnesty International calls for climate visas for Pacific peoples

10 Oct 2025

Amnesty International is calling on the government to offer dedicated humanitarian visas to Pacifica peoples displaced by climate change, and to urgently reform immigration policies to align with a rights-based approach to climate displacement.

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton

Policy churn ‘bewildering and costly’: Commissioner urges cross-party fix for environmental management

9 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton warns that fragmented, stop–start policy and constant law reform are stalling progress on climate, freshwater and biodiversity.

Nick Cradock-Henry

$12m climate-adaptation research push to turn plans into action

9 Oct 2025

The five-year Accelerating Adaptation to Climate Change programme, led by Earth Sciences New Zealand, aims to accelerate action on adaptation to climate impacts.

Climate change puts $180 billion of coastal property at risk – report

8 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand's sea temperatures are rising faster than the global average, marine heatwaves are intensifying, and more than 200,000 properties now sit in flood-prone areas – putting ecosystems, communities and the marine economy at risk.

Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap

8 Oct 2025

Eliminating CO2 emissions from flying is going to be expensive, regardless of the solution the world adopts.

WASP chairperson Chizuru Aoki,

Major UN climate conference in Christchurch next week

7 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A major United Nations climate conference is coming to Christchurch next week, with organisers aiming to spotlight Pacific realities, Indigenous innovation, and the policies needed to scale climate adaptation across policy, finance and on-the-ground practice.

Gisborne District Council Mayor Rehette Stoltz

Emerging biodiversity and carbon markets part of Gisborne plan for land-use change

6 Oct 2025

Gisborne District Council has endorsed a plan to shift up to 100,000 hectares of the region’s most erosion-prone land into permanent vegetation cover and is calling on the Government to make urgent changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme to aid the transition.

$1.5m for climate action

6 Oct 2025

The Wilding Pine Network, Rewiring Aotearoa, Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust, 800 Trust and 350 Aotearoa, have received grants from a total pool of more than $1.5m over two years from of Climate Action Aotearoa's Kaupapa of National Significance Climate Action Fund.

UC wins top international award for civics education

6 Oct 2025

Media release | A University of Canterbury research group has received international recognition at the highest level of political science.

Responsible Investment Association Australasia's Dean Hegarty

Aotearoa must 'stay the course’ on credible climate reporting – experts

2 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The External Reporting Board’s proposal to push Scope 3 emissions and related financial-impact disclosure back by two years has been branded "a big disappointment", prompting calls for New Zealand to stick with robust, credible climate-risk reporting.

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Annual emissions fell to lowest in 15 years in Sept 2025

Thu 5 Feb 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions fell to their lowest annual total in the year to September 2025 since records began 2010, according to Statistics New Zealand data published this morning.

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NZ’s government wants tourism to drive economic growth – but how will it deal with aviation emissions?

22 Oct 2025

By Robert McLachlan, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University | Following a brief dip during the COVID pandemic, aviation is back in a growth phase.

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Air NZ inks deal for its first internationally verified carbon credits

9 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | Air New Zealand has committed to buying 8000 tonnes of carbon removals by 2030, in partnership with local native forest investment platform My Native Forest.

Biodiversity
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Waituna Lagoon in better health for World Wetlands Day

Tue 3 Feb 2026

Media release: Department of Conservation | A new survey of Waituna Lagoon in Southland shows a significant improvement in health for the internationally important Ramsar wetland compared to a year ago.

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Govt launches strategy backing wood-based heat sector

23 Oct 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Forestry biomass could replace as much as 40% of fossil fuel-generated process heat by 2050, but access to supply, regulatory settings and business cases for converting to wood-based heat sources are required, the Government says in a series of documents released yesterday.

Carbon Credits
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Climate Change Commission chair Dame Patsy Reddy with Climate Change Minister Simon Watts

Minister’s letters: Mildly positive or just virtue signalling?

Thu 5 Feb 2026

By Liz Kivi | The carbon market was buoyed slightly yesterday, after letters between the Government and the Climate Change Commission were proactively released.

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GHG protocol sets global rules for land emissions, carbon removals from 2027

Thu 5 Feb 2026

After five years of technical work and global consultation, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol has released its Land Sector and Removals Standard, introducing a long awaited framework that brings land based emissions and removals fully into corporate greenhouse gas accounting.

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Climate Change Minister Simon Watts

Govt looks to Commission for ways to shore up carbon price

Wed 4 Feb 2026

By Liz Kivi | The Government has asked the Climate Change Commission to look at lower auction volumes and an increase in the auction floor price as options to revive the Emissions Trading Scheme, as carbon prices remain weak.

Coal
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‘Rush’ for new coal in China hits record high in 2025 as climate deadline looms

Wed 4 Feb 2026

Proposals to build coal-fired plants in China reached a record high in 2025, finds a new study.

Comment
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Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050

30 Jan 2026

Climate change could lead to half a million more deaths from malaria in Africa over the next 25 years, according to new research.

Construction
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RMA’s successors hinge on two untested bets

17 Dec 2025

Two ideas sit at the heart of the Government’s replacement for the Resource Management Act: regulatory relief and spatial planning.

COP
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Resources Minister Shane Jones and New Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones

Opposition attacks Govt over fossil fuel phaseout backdown

Mon 2 Feb 2026

By Liz Kivi | Revelations that Resources Minister Shane Jones ruled out New Zealand signing up to a 'road map' away from fossil fuels at last year’s global climate summit show the National Party’s minor coalition partners’ undue influence over the Government, according to Labour leader Chris Hipkins.

Emissions trading
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Lawyers for Climate Action executive director Jessica Palairet (right) with Environmental Law Initiative director Matt Hall

Court rejects challenge to Minister and Commission over climate targets

28 Jan 2026

By Liz Kivi | The Supreme Court has rejected Lawyers for Climate Action’s bid to challenge the Climate Change Commission and former Climate Minister James Shaw over climate targets, ending a long-running case which had been working its way through the courts since 2021.

Energy
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Govt backs fusion research as part of long-term clean energy push

Wed 4 Feb 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government is investing up to $35 million in fusion energy research through a loan to New Zealand start-up OpenStar Technologies, saying investment could strengthen New Zealand’s energy security.

Extinction
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Conservation Minister Tama Potaka

DOC trims costs and winds down jobs for nature

10 Nov 2025

The Department of Conservation (DOC) is entering a new phase of tighter budgets and structural change as it winds down the pandemic-era Jobs for Nature programme and reshapes its operations to absorb long-term cost pressures.

Extreme weather
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$7m boost for marae adaptation as climate impacts intensify

Thu 5 Feb 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A further $7 million has been committed to marae climate resilience projects under the second stage of the Māori Climate Platform, with funding targeted at flood protection, water infrastructure, renewable energy and, in one case, relocating a marae to higher ground.

Fishing
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Transport dominates NZ’s rising consumer emissions

10 Dec 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Transport pollution was the biggest contributor to an increase in New Zealand’s consumption-based emissions in 2023, with emissions from household travel up 12%, and consumption-based emissions totalling 58.3 million tonnes – up 1.6% from the previous year.

Forestry
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'Damning' report challenges forestry’s role in Tairāwhiti as sector rejects conclusions

Wed 4 Feb 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New independent analysis commissioned by Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti challenges long-standing claims that industrial forestry underpins the Tairāwhiti economy.

Gas
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U.S. could issue general license for oil companies to produce in Venezuela this week

Thu 5 Feb 2026

The Trump administration could issue a general license as soon as this week for companies to produce oil and gas in Venezuela, a person familiar with the plan told CNBC on Tuesday.

Geothermal
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RMA to speed up fossil fuel consents

18 Aug 2025

By Liz Kivi | An energy lobby group has welcomed a last-minute amendment to the RMA that puts fossil fuels on the same footing as renewables, however a sustainable energy expert says the move “beggars belief.”

Green finance
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US is canceling almost $30 billion in Biden-era energy loans

27 Jan 2026

The Trump administration said it’s canceling almost $30 billion of financing from the Energy Department’s green bank after reviewing transactions approved under former President Biden.

Greenhouse Effect
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The politics of risk in 2026

Tue 3 Feb 2026

The opening speeches of Parliament’s first sitting days offered little new policy detail, but they repeated the themes likely to define energy and environment politics in 2026 - and the framing each party wants to carry into an election year.

Greenwashing
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Govt slammed for weakening methane target

15 Dec 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams The Government has pushed through legislation under urgency to almost halve New Zealand’s 2050 methane target – a move Opposition parties say disregards scientific advice, breaks the country’s hard-won political consensus on climate action, and shifts the burden of higher warming and higher future costs onto the next generation.

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Ralph Regenvanu (centre) at the COP30 climate summit.

COP30 microcosm of difficult geopolitics, says Vanuatu's Climate Minister

15 Dec 2025

By Liz Kivi | Despite ‘intransigent’ states blocking multilateralism and a disappointing official outcome, Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu says he left the COP30 climate summit feeling more positive than after previous UN climate conferences.

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Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane

19 Dec 2025

The warming impact of hydrogen has been “overlooked” in projections of climate change, according to authors of the latest “global hydrogen budget”.

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Wales council to buy and demolish homes prone to flooding

Wed 4 Feb 2026

A row of homes in a village in south Wales is to be bought by a local authority and demolished as they can no longer be protected from flooding caused by the climate crisis.

Kyoto
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Waitangi Treaty Grounds

Climate law change spanner in the works for Waitangi Tribunal Inquiry

19 Dec 2025

By Liz Kivi | The Government’s controversial changes to New Zealand’s legal framework for climate policy have thrown a spanner in the works for a long-running Waitangi Tribunal Inquiry into climate change.

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Greenpeace set to take UK Government to court over deep-sea mining licences

Thu 5 Feb 2026

Environmental NGO Greenpeace has kick-started a legal challenge against the UK Government’s decision to approve the transfer of two seabed exploration licences to a newly-formed mining company with US links.

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Govt unveils plans for carbon storage regulations – and ETS rewards

18 Dec 2025

By Liz Kivi | The Government has released plans to regulate carbon capture and storage in natural geological formations, which include Emissions Trading Scheme incentives, with the aim of introducing related legislation in 2026.

Mining
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Greenpeace warns of NZ bowing to US mining bullying

Thu 5 Feb 2026

Media release | News that the New Zealand government is in talks with the Trump administration on a critical minerals deal is drawing fierce criticism from Greenpeace Aotearoa, who warn of unchecked environmental destruction, Te Tiriti violations, and Aotearoa becoming a pawn in the US’s quest for further geopolitical control.

NZ Market Report
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NZ's latest climate target 'weak' – Climate Action Tracker

24 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand's new international climate target to 2035 is weak, and could even allow for higher emissions than the 2030 target, according to a global scientific project that tracks government climate action.

Oceans
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Offshore windfarms enhance function of coastal waters and diversity of aquatic life

19 Dec 2025

Media release | A study conducted by researchers from Murdoch University in Australia and Dalian Ocean University in China has found that offshore windfarms can improve marine ecosystems and diversify aquatic food chains.

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Out of Paris, but will the US formally quit the UN climate regime?

30 Jan 2026

The Trump administration has decided to withdraw the US from the broader UN climate convention, raising questions about the legality of the move and what it means in practice.

Planetary boundaries
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Commentators slam Govt inaction in aftermath of climate change-fuelled storms

30 Jan 2026

By Liz Kivi | Climate action - or inaction - is shaping up to be an election issue, with multiple commentators drawing a line between the Coalition Government’s backsliding on climate targets and the deadly extreme weather events of the past week.

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Major health risks linked to plastics emissions set to soar by 2040

28 Jan 2026

The adverse health consequences stemming from the global plastics system are projected to more than double by 2040, driven by greenhouse gases, air pollutants and toxic chemicals released throughout its lifecycle.

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Auckland Council raises flood mitigation limit to avoid costly buyouts

Thu 5 Feb 2026

By Taelegalolo'u Mary Afemata, Local Democracy Reporter | As Auckland Council’s storm recovery programme moves into its final phase, councillors have agreed to lift the cap on flood mitigation spending per household in a bid to avoid more expensive property buyouts.

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Three Greenpeace activists removed by police from Fonterra

17 Dec 2025

Media release | Three Greenpeace activists were removed by police from Fonterra’s downtown Auckland offices, following a protest on Monday at the Shareholders’ Fund meeting over the corporation’s role in the contamination of rural communities’ drinking water.

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New Zealand Minerals Council chief executive Josie Vidal

Straterra has a new name: the New Zealand Minerals Council

16 Apr 2025

Media release | Straterra has been renamed as New Zealand Minerals Council, says chief executive Josie Vidal.

Science
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New Zealand Association of Scientists co-president Troy Baisden

Scientists warn that reforms entrench instability as climate risks grow

Tue 3 Feb 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Science reforms intended to strengthen New Zealand’s research system are instead compounding long-standing failures, according to the New Zealand Association of Scientists, which says instability, lost capability and weak accountability are leaving the country increasingly exposed to climate hazards.

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Solar households to get little-noticed tax break

23 Sep 2025

A provision in the government’s latest tax bill would exempt households from paying tax on income they earn by selling excess electricity back to the grid.

Technology
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NZ hydrogen regulation to catch up with the world

18 Dec 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | The government has announced a regulatory reset for New Zealand’s emerging clean tech hydrogen sector.

The House
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Pacific climate response in question as NZ finance remains unclear

19 Dec 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | With New Zealand's $1.3 billion international climate finance commitment set to end with no clarity on what follows, the Auditor-General says oversight of that funding remains patchy and long-term outcomes are unclear.

Transport
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New chargers for heavy electric vehicles open at Lower Hutt's Silverstream Landfill

Heavy EV charger hub opens at Lower Hutt landfill

Wed 4 Feb 2026

By Justin Wong, Local Democracy Reporter |In a nationwide first, heavy electric vehicles can now recharge at Lower Hutt’s Silverstream Landfill.

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UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns

Tue 3 Feb 2026

The United Nations is at risk of "imminent financial collapse" due to member states not paying their fees, the body's head has warned.

Waste
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Kaicycle celebrates ten years of collective climate action in Pōneke

14 Nov 2025

Media release: Kaicycle | Since 2015, Kaicycle has grown from a humble pilot project growing kai and collecting compost on bicycles into the thriving urban farm and composting hub that Wellingtonians know and love.

Water
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Heatwaves, downpours and droughts – Auckland on track for more extreme weather

1 Dec 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New projections show Auckland will face more heatwaves, heavier downpours, worsening droughts and growing coastal threats as climate extremes intensify, according to a new report from Earth Sciences New Zealand.

Wildfires
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Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei’s austerity

Wed 4 Feb 2026

The wildfires, among the worst to hit the drought-stricken Patagonia region in decades, have devastated more than 45,000 hectares (174 square miles) of Argentina’s forests in the last month and a half, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and tourists.

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US court blocks Trump halt on last of five suspended offshore wind projects

Wed 4 Feb 2026

All five offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration in December can resume construction following a federal judge's ruling on Monday that cleared Denmark's Orsted to proceed with its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York.

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