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Topics tagged with 'Agriculture'

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Amazon rain forest .. not at risk from enthanol fuel production 2500km away

Brazillian ambassdor snaps back on rain forest-for-fuel claims

3 Jun 2008

The Brazilian Ambassador to New Zealand Manoel Gomes-Pereira, tired of his country being used as a piñata in the rainforests debate, has taken the unusual step for a diplomat of making a spirited public defence of Brazil’s biofuels strategy.

Go carefully on soil carbon sequestration - officials

30 May 2008

Soil-storage of carbon mightn’t be the answer to farmers’ prayers for a solution to agricultural greenhouse-gas emissions, and New Zealand must use caution in any decision to move into soil credits, officials say.

Open hydro turbine Crest plans to use at Kaipara harbour ... 200 x 1MW turbines planned

Why Parker is enthisiastic about marine energy

30 May 2008

Average wave power can exceed 100 kilowatts per metre of wave crest length, on the southwest-facing coasts of New Zealand.

Kaipara Harbour .. where 200 turbines could go

Govt funding for Kaipara harbour tidal energy devices

30 May 2008

A project to generate electricity from the tides in Kaipara Harbour is to receive a grant of $1.85 million from the Marine Energy Deployment Fund.

Lincoln University .. research still showing New Zealand food highly emission competitive

New Zealand food imports still the greenest option for UK

30 May 2008

By Angela van de Weerdhof. - New Zealand food producers should fare well when the European Union rings in carbon labeling on all imports.

Marks and Spencers' CSR leader to speak

30 May 2008

Mike Barry, head of CSR at Marks and Spencers is among a host of world leading academics and business people to address a forthcoming conference on changing land use in New Zealand.

Aorangi mountains, Wairarapa ... 10 metre height plan a backdoor ban on wind energy

Meridian fights local body troika's backdoor bid to ban windfarms

29 May 2008

Meridian Energy Ltd has launched an appeal against what it sees as a crimp on renewable energy zoning by the Masterton, Carterton, and South Wairarapa District Councils.

Farmers says they did not pay for NZIER ETS report

Federated Farmers: We did not fund secret report

29 May 2008

Federated Farmers is strongly denying rumours that it is one of the secret funders of last month's NZIER report which predicts that the emissions trading scheme will cost New Zealand 22,000 jobs and billions of dollars.

Charlie Pedersen ... early entry will reduce production and tax take

Farmers: Green move to get agriculture into ETS early "not a runner"

29 May 2008

Farmers say a Green Party attempt to get them into the emissions trading scheme early as part of a deal for the party’s support for the climate change bill is not a political runner.

Frank Brenmulh ... only 5% of rain used

Farmers: It's not just us who need to adapt to predicted water shortages

29 May 2008

Federated Farmers spokesperson Frank Brenmuhl says the Ecoclimate report is an interesting and useful document but "the population needs to adapt, not just farmers."

Carbon card ... one more to add to the line-up

True cost of personal carbon card plan revealed

29 May 2008

New reports in the UK say an MPs’ idea to issue every citizen there with a personal carbon card will cost up to NZ$6 billion to set up, and the same amount to run each year.

Comms company looks to install solar panels on customers' roofs

29 May 2008

Cox Communications has announced initiatives to cut energy costs that include adding solar electricity to its headquarters and communications system and increasing fuel efficiency in its fleet vehicles.

Jeanette Fitzsimmons ... agricultural emissions must be addressed immediately

EXCLUSIVE: Greens push for early ETS entry for agriculture

28 May 2008

The Green Party is looking to force the Government to bring agriculture into the emissions trading scheme early.

Droughts will be more extreme than the worse so-far recorded

New climate change report: Worse-ever droughts main NZ worry

28 May 2008

Fighting possible extreme droughts will be the main obstacle for farmers as a result of climate change in New Zealand but overall production is predicted to go up.

Windflow falls victim to noise issue

28 May 2008

Windflow Technology of Christchurch is the pre-eminent alternate energy production engineer in New Zealand. Yet its power generation wind turbines are being rejected on the environmental grounds that they make too much noise.

Lieberman ... carrot and stick bills now before

New US climate change bill will subsidise low-emission energy

28 May 2008

A newer version of the McCain-Lieberman Climate Change Stewardship Bill has been introduced which, when combined with an ETS bill, will incentivise new low-emission energy projects..

A changing climate is not all bad for agriculture

28 May 2008

A new report released by MAF shows that not all of the effects of climate change are bad for the agricultural sectors. In some areas, production will potentially increase.

Sustainable logging in Sandakan, Malaysia  ... will the wood come labelled from now on?

Major policy clamp down on climate-warming illegal wood imports?

28 May 2008

The Cabinet has agreed in principle to mandatory labelling of all kwila products sold in New Zealand.

Parker... stocking with it doesn't win you a lot of friends..

Parker's full speech on climate change effects and impacts assessment

28 May 2008

Here is the full speech of CLimate Change Issues Minister David Parker at the launch of new reports into the impacts of climate change.

Fish and Bird says let's audit farm eco-performance to match NZ branding

Fish and Game: Let's audit farms to reflect realty in eco labels

28 May 2008

Fish and Game wants farmers to submit to eco-audits to back up "grand claims" made about New Zealand in eco marketing.

80,000 old containers leave life on the farm

28 May 2008

More than 80,000 old and unwanted agrichemical containers have been collected in the first year of a national rural recycling programme, thanks to the Agrecovery Foundation, according to Environment Minister Trevor Mallard.

More on-farm waste products to go into recovery scheme

28 May 2008

The Agrecovery rural recycling programme will be extended to other "on farm" waste products.

Greens reveal more of their conditions for ETS support

27 May 2008

The Greens have set out some of their policy demands for support of the emissions trading bill.

Offshore windfarm, Thames estuary .. how many million new green jobs are coming?

Low-carbon economy – millions of new jobs?

27 May 2008

Ethical Corporation- Europe's leaders say a low-carbon economy will create millions of new jobs.

Water quality second in nw label requirements.. will our dirty dairies pass?

Carbon labelling: Exports at risk from dirty dairying

27 May 2008

The Greens are warning that our dairy products will struggle to gain a European Union eco-label due to the impacts of dirty dairying on our rivers and lakes.

MAF: wood supply to jump about 3 million cu m a year

27 May 2008

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) has released new wood availability forecasts for the Central North Island that indicate a steady increase in supply for the region over the next 12 years.

Leadership forum chair Stephen Tindall

Forum heads to the select committee

26 May 2008

A high-powered group of business and community leaders who back an emissions trading scheme will appear before the finance and expenditure select committee today to answer questions from MPs.

Lake Rotorua .. draft plan coming, recovery underway in some lakes

Nitrogen loaded Rotorua lakes showing improvement

26 May 2008

The health of Lake Okaro is improving and blue green algae levels are down, according to the latest report on Rotorua lakes water quality.

Tanzos: Landcorp should help sheep farmers avoid emissions costs

26 May 2008

Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos has called on Landcorp to support New Zealand sheep farmers by trialling organic sheep farming methods rather than leading the shift to dairy conversion.

Nick Smith ... will put major ETs issues back out for consultation

EXCLUSIVE - National answers questions on ETS: No bill backing even if it gets all it wants

23 May 2008

In response to a series of questions from Carbon News, National says it will bring farmers into the emissions trading scheme, but won’t vote to pass it before the election – even if it can get all six of its key demands into the draft legislation.

Fiscal forecast: ETS will lose Govt $121m net in first commitment period

23 May 2008

The Government will allocate $2,151 million in emission credits and earn $2,030 million from them in the first Kyoto commitment period, making a net loss of $121 million.

Queen goes green ... with offshore turbine

Keep your hat on Mam: Queen invests in biggest wind turbine

23 May 2008

The Queen is investing is the world's biggest wind turbine.

ANALYSIS: National delivers heavy emitting friends into tougher hands

22 May 2008

National’s decision to abandon support for the emissions trading bill has effectively delivered more power to parties wanting a tougher line on heavy emitters.

Broadband ... helping cut back the 300 hours a year in rural driving

Rural internet use jumps 97% in April as fuel prices rise

22 May 2008

Rural people are increasingly turning to the internet in response to rising fuel costs, according to rural broadband provider Farmside.

Death and dirt cookies (and beach views) in Haiti

Behind Latin America's Food Crisis

22 May 2008

By Laura Carlsen , Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) . -Even a year ago, few people would have predicted that a global food crisis would make headlines as one of the major concerns for the future of the world.

Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia

Ka kite Rio Tinto….kia ora ETS

21 May 2008

The Maori Party has launched a stinging attack on big businesses that it says are trying to bully the Government into transferring the cost of their greenhouse-gas emissions on to taxpayers, suggesting that the party is going to give the Government the numbers to pass the emissions trading scheme into law.

Get soil recognised as carbon storer, say scientists

21 May 2008

Scientists working on quantifying the carbon-storage potential of New Zealand soils are urging officials to start work now on getting soil recognised in the next round of climate-change protocols.

Trapping cow methne to earn AEP credits?

US' biggest coal burning power firm to turn cow dung into carbon credits

21 May 2008

The American Electric Power company is going to trap methane from cow manure in a bid to earn emission credits.

Google power now shows climate change impacts

Google Earth powers up to show impacts of climate change

21 May 2008

Millions of Google Earth users around the world will be able to see how climate change could affect the planet and its people over the next century, along with viewing the loss of Antarctic ice shelves over the last 50 years, thanks to a new project launched yesterday.

Einstein... cited as showing the way with a plant-based diet

Now its "go vege" and save the planet?

21 May 2008

A vegan group is now proclaiming a link between diet and climate change, and urging New Zealanders to "go vegie" and save the plant.

Anderton ...primary industry leaders "astonished" by Key's behaviour

Anderton slams Key's inaccuracies on Fast Forward Fund

21 May 2008

Progressive leader and Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton has made public background papers on the New Zealand Fast Forward Fund and called on National to reverse its pledge to axe it.

Fed Farmers pushes to have soil carbon sequestration included in ETS

20 May 2008

Federated Farmers is calling for a greater push toward getting soil recognised as a legitimate method of storing greenhouse gases, saying that it would be a boon to farmers struggling to deal with emission from animals.

Prince Charles

Charles: We've got 18 months to stop climate change disaster

20 May 2008

The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.

Changing climate threatens Europe's prized black truffles

20 May 2008

The black truffle, one of the most exclusive and expensive delicacies on the planet, is under threat from climate change.

Charlie Pedersen

Worried farmers: We want to be part of the ETS

19 May 2008

Farmers want to do their bit and be part of the emissions trading scheme, says Federated Farmers president Charlie Pedersen.

Canadian with Kiwi connections to take over Genesis

19 May 2008

Canadian New Zealander Albert Brantley is to be the new boss of Genesis Energy, operator of the Huntly power station and New Zealand’s largest electricity retailer.

30-year trial shows organic farming is the way to go

19 May 2008

A 30-year scientific trial shows that organic practices could counteract up to 40 per cent of global greenhouse gas output.

Regulating greenhouse gases will generate a lot of money -- who should get it?

19 May 2008

A US climate-change bill that has widespread support as it heads to the Senate floor will create an estimated $150 billion of new assets in the first year it takes effect.

Research links fertiliser to huge increase in nitrogen emissions

19 May 2008

Agricultural fertilisers washed into the ocean are causing an eightfold increase in emissions of one of the worst greenhouse gases, according to new research published in the journal Science.

The Global carbon trading market takes flight

16 May 2008

Paul Ezekiel travels regularly from his Manhattan office to emerging markets like China and Brazil, prospecting for clean energy projects.

Adaptation
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‘Significant gaps’ in proposed approach to climate adaptation

Thu 10 Jul 2025

A new report into climate adaptation doesn’t suggest how development in high-risk areas should be avoided - an issue that needs urgent action with thousands of homes still being built in hazardous areas, according to the Environmental Defence Society.

Airlines
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NZ Post drops science-based climate target

Tue 8 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | NZ Post has dropped its science-based emissions reduction target of 42% by 2030 with no plans to replace it.

Aviation
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Nations agree to tax premium flyers, private jets

2 Jul 2025

A group of countries, including France, Kenya, Spain and Barbados, pledged on June 30 to tax premium-class flying and private jets in a bid to raise funds for climate action and sustainable development.

Biodiversity
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Former Climate Commission Chair Dr Rod Carr

Markets aren't going to save us – Carr

Wed 9 Jul 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Consumerism is reaching its ecological and economic limits, and only systemic change - not market tweaks - can steer us away from climate catastrophe, according to former Climate Change Commission chair Rod Carr.

Biofuels
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Sustainability claims questioned as renewable diesel surges

14 May 2025

Critics are sceptical about industry claims of renewable diesel life-cycle greenhouse gas emission cuts and warn renewable diesel carbon releases will surge if sourcing is scaled up, triggering tropical deforestation as producers convert forests to energy crops, such as oil palm and soy.

Carbon Credits
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Carbon price grinds higher - where to from now?

30 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | The carbon price has continued to grind slowly higher since this month’s failed auction, with prices at their highest since March, although still languishing well below this year’s auction floor price.

Carbon News world
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Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why

Thu 10 Jul 2025

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and rapid warming of Earth. But what has remained a mystery is why these extremely hot conditions persisted for millions of years.

Carbon prices
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Carbon auction fails again

18 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | As predicted, today’s carbon auction failed to attract any bidders, with the secondary market languishing at nearly 20% below the minimum auction price.

Coal
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Megan Woods

Climate backtracking could impact trade relationships: Labour

Wed 9 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | Labour Party Energy spokesperson Megan Woods says the government needs to be upfront about how its energy policies will impact trade relationships, following revelations New Zealand was warned by other governments that backtracking on climate policies jeopardised its membership of an international alliance.

Comment
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Credit: International Institute for Sustainable Development

A credible UN carbon market needs rules that count – we’ve just set them

11 Jun 2025

COMMENT: The broad standards for a more ambitious market are now in place. But without a steady flow of investment, this progress will remain largely on paper.

Construction
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Common low-grade clay strengthens low-carbon concrete

5 Jun 2025

Media release | Engineers at RMIT University have converted low-grade clay into a high-performance cement supplement, opening a potential new market in sustainable construction materials.

COP
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Cuts to climate finance put exports in jeopardy: Lawyers

23 May 2025

By Liz Kivi | The government has halved international climate finance, a move aid organisations describe as “devastating,” and which lawyers say could put our Paris Agreement commitments and export market access at risk.

Emissions trading
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Could an unexplained carbon forest sink solve govt’s billion-dollar climate woes?

23 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | A groundbreaking study shows that New Zealand’s native forests are absorbing far more carbon dioxide than previously thought.

Energy
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Fast, sustained phase-out of fossil fuels: best-performing countries in coal and transport sectors

Thu 10 Jul 2025

By Robert McLachlan | It’s true that climate change is getting worse – it will continue to get worse until emissions fall to near zero. But is action on phasing out fossil fuels really stalling?

Extinction
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Key orange roughy population on verge of collapse, govt considers closure

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Media release - Deep Sea Conservation Coalition | New data reveals that New Zealand’s main orange roughy fishery, accounting for half of the country’s total catch, is on the brink of collapse, with one model showing it may have reached that point already, and the government’s considering closing it.

Extreme weather
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Regions in China take steps to ensure power supply amid heatwave-driven record demand

Thu 10 Jul 2025

China is battling intense heatwaves across multiple regions in recent days, with temperatures surpassing 40C in some areas, triggering yellow heat warnings and high-temperature health risk warnings.

Fishing
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Latest trawl bycatch numbers 'a grim wake-up call'

24 Jun 2025

Media release – Greenpeace | The latest fisheries bycatch data paints a grim picture, with trawlers hauling up thousands of kilograms of coral and killing hundreds of fur seals and seabirds over a 12 month period.

Forestry
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EU countries seek more cuts to deforestation rules

Wed 9 Jul 2025

From December, the world-first deforestation law will require operators placing goods including soy, beef and palm oil, onto the EU market to provide proof their products did not cause deforestation.

Gas
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NZ quits Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance

25 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | The New Zealand government has quietly withdrawn from an ambitious coalition to phase out fossil fuels, with a $200 million publicly-funded subsidy for new gas fields the latest policy in conflict with that goal.

Geothermal
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Energy Minister Simon Watts addressing the CEP conference in Auckland this week

Watts talks big on energy reform, but barriers persist

29 May 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Energy and Climate Change minister Simon Watts says the government is doubling down on efforts to boost renewable energy generation, streamline regulation, and drive private sector investment as New Zealand faces mounting energy security and affordability challenges.

Green finance
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Net-zero much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Reaching net-zero will be much cheaper for the UK government than previously expected – and the economic damages of unmitigated climate change far more severe.

Greenhouse Effect
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Melting glaciers and ice caps could unleash wave of volcanic eruptions, study says

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Research in Chile suggests the climate crisis makes eruptions more likely and explosive, and warns of Antarctica risk.

Greenwashing
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Biodiversity market needs govt regulation to avoid fraud risk

17 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | Participants have applauded the government’s pilot programme for New Zealand’s voluntary biodiversity market, but an expert says the emerging market needs better regulation to avoid reputational risk and fraud.

Hydro power
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Methanex closure comes early this year

14 May 2025

The almost-now-annual closure of Methanex has come earlier this year, giving more confidence that the electricity system will get through the winter without a fuel shortfall.

Hydrogen
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Electric firebricks: decarbonising high-temperature industrial heat

13 Jun 2025

By Ian Mason | A new technology could offer a more cost-effective solution than hydrogen to decarbonise one ‘hard-to-abate’ sector of New Zealand’s economy, as well as having ample potential for demand response as the electricity grid becomes more renewable.

Insurance
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90% of NZers expect more extreme weather disasters because of climate change

23 Jun 2025

A new climate change poll from AMI, State, and NZI shows New Zealanders are expecting more extreme weather events as a result of climate change.

Kyoto
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Will NZ walk away from the Paris Agreement?

20 Dec 2024

By Geoff Bertram | COMMENT: Unless the government can find very cheap offshore mitigation, the temptation to walk away from its Paris Agreement obligations may well be too strong to resist for a coalition government focused on fiscal austerity.

Litigation
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In Latin America, the energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

Tue 8 Jul 2025

A new report shows that more than half of the 95 energy transition-related lawsuits recorded globally since 2009 took place in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Low carbon
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Clear-sighted view to trade-offs crucial to reimagining our relationship with the land

Mon 7 Jul 2025

By Nick Swallow | COMMENT: New Zealand could see a 70% drop in the value of dairy land if we pursue our emissions targets for agriculture, according to a new report.

Mining
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Unlocking economic growth on conservation land

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Media release - New Zealand Government | A targeted effort to reduce the backlog of applications for use of conservation land is accelerating economic growth without compromising conservation values, says Conservation Minister Tama Potaka.

NZ ETS
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Carbon credits stockpile down: latest figures

Mon 7 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | The number of NZUs held in private accounts, often called "the stockpile", dropped 11 million tonnes in the past year, according to the latest figures.

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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The change in Southern Ocean structure can drive a release in carbon to the atmosphere

Change in Southern Ocean structure could have climate implications

Mon 7 Jul 2025

Media release – Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC) | Satellite data processing algorithms developed by ICM-CSIC have played a crucial role in detecting this significant shift in the Southern Hemisphere, which could accelerate the effects of climate change.

Paris Agreement
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Mayor Nick Smith and chief executive Nigel Philpott had reservations about the target.

Nelson adopts ambitious target to slash emissions

Tue 8 Jul 2025

By Max Frethey, Local Democracy Reporter | After some of the most passionate debate seen in the chamber this triennium, Nelson City Council has adopted the more ambitious of two community greenhouse gas targets.

Planetary boundaries
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Fight over coal mine heats up

30 May 2025

Forest & Bird is calling on the government to create a new scientific reserve covering the Denniston Plateau on the West Coast, which would stop a fast-tracked coal mine.

Plastics
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The microplastics found on a Waikato beach

Microplastics found in sand on dozens of NZ beaches

4 Jun 2025

Scientists have extracted microplastics from the sand of 22 beaches from the Far North to Banks Peninsula.

Policy development
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Türkiye's Parliament adopts first-ever climate law

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Promising a wide range of provisions and increased vigilance against climate change, the new law is to provide action plans on a national and local scale, while bolstering Türkiye’s 2053 climate goals and protecting the country from environmental disasters.

Politics
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North Canterbury locals get say over huge solar farm

Thu 10 Jul 2025

By David Hill, Local Democracy Reporter | North Canterbury residents are being encouraged to have their say on a proposed 180 hectare solar farm on a property near their village.

Protest
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UK: Thousands lobby MPs to demand climate action

Thu 10 Jul 2025

More than 5,000 people from across the UK arrived in Westminster on Wednesday to meet their MPs and demand urgent climate action to protect their communities.

Rare earth minerals
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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.

Renewable energy
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Clean energy's political test looms now that Trump bill is law

Thu 10 Jul 2025

The US 2026 midterms will test clean energy's uncertain political salience as advocates attempt to tether it to economic matters that voters prioritise.

Science
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Flaring burns off excess methane in oil and gas fields, preventing the potent greenhouse gas from accumulating.

MethaneSAT loss ‘a tragedy’

3 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | The disappearance of a methane-tracking satellite, which was backed by $29 million of government funding, is a tragic loss according to one astrophysicist, who is calling for a review to understand how New Zealand blew past multiple red flags about its operation.

Tax
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Green budget 'ludicrous la-la land' – govt

15 May 2025

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said the budget was "clown show economics" and an "absolute circus".

Technology
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Basis co-founders Danny Purcell and Julyan Collett

Kiwi ‘smart panel’ startup aiming to reduce energy bills and emissions

4 Jul 2025

NZ start-up Basis this week launched an ‘intelligent’ panel to replace traditional electrical switchboards in homes, which it says can save the average home $1,200 NZD annually on bills and lead to lower emissions.

The House
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United Nations carbon market rules agreed but concerns remain

25 Nov 2024

New carbon market rules agreed at the fractious UN climate summit will be a relief to New Zealand and Singapore, who were leading the negotiations, but concerns about greenwashing and disadvantaging nature-based solutions remain.

Transport
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Waihopai and Wairau rivers

Media round-up

4 Jul 2025

In our weekly round-up of climate coverage in local media: Proposed changes to forestry rules won’t solve the ‘slash’ problem; New Plymouth District Council officially opposes seabed mining; and is local media coverage of climate change lacking when reporting extreme weather events?

United Nations
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Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes

Tue 8 Jul 2025

President Donald Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement.

Waste
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Waste Levy risks becoming ‘slush fund’ under proposed changes – Commissioner

5 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Proposed changes to New Zealand's waste legislation risk undermining public trust in the waste levy scheme, according to Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton.

Water
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NZ urgently needs to change approach to flood management - experts

2 Jul 2025

Experts say climate change is squarely to blame for flooding in Nelson - but isn’t getting the media attention it deserves - and the country urgently needs to change its approach to flood management in the face of climate change.

Wildfires
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UN University report warns against carbon credits from REDD, tree planting, and improved forest management

13 Jun 2025

But the report stops short of recommending banning the trade in carbon temporarily stored in trees.

Wind energy
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For the first time, China invests more in wind and solar than coal overseas

29 May 2025

China’s Belt and Road Initiative, long derided for its heavy carbon footprint, was dominated by wind and solar power projects for the first time from 2022 to 2023, according to a new analysis. But coal plants financed in earlier years are still coming online.

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