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Roger Dickie ... ready to wage war.

We'll fight for our forest rights, owners warn ETS policy-makers

25 Jul 2008

Kyoto Forest Owners say they will wage war if either major political party reneges on promises over carbon credits worth millions of dollars.

John Key ... rolled by his backbench, decided to delay, and can't govern alone on ETS

ANALYSIS: Heavy emitters and National scoring major own goal

25 Jul 2008

The little-covered press release issued by the Kyoto Forestry Association this week, seeking major-party assurances its members will still get hundreds of millions of dollars worth of carbon credits, speaks of the unspeakable position anti-emissions trading campaigners have got themselves and others into.

California ... major effort to cut emissions.

California joins major North American effort to curb greenhouse gases

25 Jul 2008

California, six other Western states and four Canadian provinces will launch a market-based carbon trading system in a major North American effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, according to a draft proposal released yesterday.

Kyoto foresters seek assurances on Labour and National's carbon credit promises

25 Jul 2008

The Kyoto Forestry Association (KFA) is seeking assurances from the Labour and National parties that their 2007 promises to post-1989 forest owners, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, can continue to be relied upon.

Mexico City ... $5 million clean-up.

Smog-clogged Mexico City promises to reduce greenhouse gases

22 Jul 2008

The government of notoriously polluted Mexico City is promising to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions 12 per cent by 2012.

Carbon trader helps landowner win funding for gas emissions study

18 Jul 2008

Greenair, the international carbon-trading company, has been closely involved in a foundation’s successful bid for public funds to measure carbon dioxide emission levels in trees.

Long-haul airlines to get carbon relief from Europe

18 Jul 2008

Airlines flying long-haul to Europe will get extra allocations of carbon credits under the European emissions trading scheme, says the European Commission to New Zealand.

World won't buy ETS dream, top economist tells Aussies

15 Jul 2008

Australians are being told by one of the world’s leading economists that the world will never support an emissions trading regime.

BC Parliament - leadership on recycling carbon tax revenues into tax cuts

Braver than Kiwis, British Columbians start paying carbon tax on fuel

8 Jul 2008

Canada’s British Columbian state government’s new carbon tax came into effect last week, indicating how the New Zealand may have missed a chance to introduce carbon prices here with limited public opposition.

Korean industry ... voluntary compliance.

Seoul aims for voluntary compliance with greenhouse gas protocols

8 Jul 2008

South Korea plans to seek flexible and voluntary compliance with the international effort to cut back on greenhouse gases, the country's climate change ambassador said yesterday.

China 2: First try at emissions trading exchange falls over

4 Jul 2008

The creation of China's first emissions trading exchange has been postponed indefinitely amid disagreements on foreign ownership in the bourse.

Lord Stern ... double trouble.

Stern claims cost of curbing climate change has doubled

1 Jul 2008

Lord Stern has warned that the cost of avoiding dangerous levels of global warming has doubled since he published his influential report on the economics of climate change in late 2006.

Camry Hybrid ... hundreds due here.

Toyoto NZ believes it still has the ‘green’ advantage

27 Jun 2008

Toyota New Zealand still feels it has the edge when it comes to ‘green’ vehicles, despite recent claims by some luxury car manufacturers.

Dairying ... Americans get serious.

US dairy industry commits to reducing greenhouse gas emissions

27 Jun 2008

United States dairy leaders yesterday announced an industry-wide commitment and action plan to reduce fluid milk's carbon footprint while increasing business value from farm to consumer.

Carbon weakens across board as oil prices fall

26 Jun 2008

Carbon weakened further across the board today as oil prices fell in the face of higher inventories.

Latest strip of CER’s 2008 – 2012 Vintage – indicative mid prices

26 Jun 2008

OMF prices below are indicative, subject to change and subject to counterparty credit assessment.

Current carbon credits available

26 Jun 2008

Broker OMF has the following credits available.

Awapuni landfill ... development financed by carbon credit sales.

Palmerston North sells landfill credits to Toyota

24 Jun 2008

The Palmerston North City Council’s sale of 4500 carbon credits from its Awapuni landfill to Toyota New Zealand follows an earlier and pioneering sale of carbon credits to the Austrian Government two years ago.

Nick Smith ... details need to be worked through to provide confidence it will work

National's full minitory report on ETS bill

16 Jun 2008

National has released its miniority report on the ETS bill.

The Bill in full

16 Jun 2008

The 328 page emissios trading bill has been reported back to Parliament.

Overall, the market feels well bid

16 Jun 2008

A mixed bag on the energy markets saw carbon weaken slightly ahead of the weekend.

Latest strip of CER’s 2008 – 2012 Vintage – indicative mid prices

16 Jun 2008

Indicative prices below are subject to change and subject to counterparty credit assessment.

Current Carbon Credits Available

16 Jun 2008

NZ broker OMF has the following carbon credits available:

Secondary market eyed in carbon underwriting and guarantees

12 Jun 2008

Financial services executives are tentatively looking forward to a secondary market in the ETS sphere focused on underwriting and guarantees.

Most of us don't know our credits from our offsets...

Kiwis don't know their credits from their offsets

12 Jun 2008

Most New Zealanders are confused about carbon terminology.

BP .. its stations being used in world first personal carbon credit trade scheme

First personal carbon trading scheme launches

11 Jun 2008

The world's first real time personal carbin trading scheme has launched.

International carbon reduction and offset alliance forms

11 Jun 2008

Eight of the world’s leading carbon reduction and offset providers have formed the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), The Climate Group announced.

Clark "personally responsible" for shocking deforestation data - Kyoto Forestry Association

11 Jun 2008

Prices weaken as oil retreats and coal firms

10 Jun 2008

Whilst carbon prices were firmer in early trading on the back of stronger German power prices and persistenly high levels in oil - prices did weaken after oil retreated and coal prices firmed.

US Senator Barbara Boxer .. facing delaying tactics in climate change bill debate

"Kill me": US Senate clerk(s) forced to read 492 page amendment to ETS bill

6 Jun 2008

In US Senate action on the Climate Security Act, Republicans are forcing the clerk to read the entirety of theBoxer substitude amendment, claiming they haven't had enough time to read it yet.

Full ECX May trade report: volumes reach 142.3 Mt

6 Jun 2008

ECX has issued its reports on May carbon trading.

Current carbon credits available

5 Jun 2008

Broker OMF has the following carbon credits available.

Fitzsimmons ... ETs given top ranking in deciding coalition party support

Conference-bolstered Greens going to play hard ball on ETS

3 Jun 2008

Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimmons has come away from the party’s annual conference at the weekend strengthened in her position to play hardball over the emissions trading scheme.

Aussie truck drivers: include fuel in ETS

3 Jun 2008

Australian truck drivers back the inclusion of fuel in their Government's emissions trading scheme and consider cuts to the fuel excise to be bad policy.

MARKET REPORT: A day of two halves

3 Jun 2008

It's been a day of two halves as carbon weakened early on only to strengthen and close firm on the back of firmer oil prices.

Montreal adds environmental futures contracts

3 Jun 2008

Traders can now add environmental futures contracts into their portfolio with the Montreal Climate Exchange's (MCeX) introduction of carbon dioxide equivalent units into financial markets on Saturday NZ time.

US$35 per ton will prompt power company investment and consumer changes

US study: US$35 per ton carbon price will cut emissions 10%

3 Jun 2008

A new analysis by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business shows possible positive short-term effects of establishing a mandatory price for CO2 emissions inthe United States.

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.

MARKET REPORT: Multiple factors push carbon price higher

30 May 2008

A combination of factors conspired to push carbon prices higher today.

Carbon Planet .. "carbon will be biggest single commodity by 2012"

Aussie Carbon Planet credit brokers breeze into local market

30 May 2008

Carbon Planet of Australia has begun marketing itself in New Zealand - and says carbon will be the world's biggest commodity by 2012.

Cape Kidnappers .. money earner a a carbon sink?

Banrock Station boss: make money by carbon sinking local reserves

30 May 2008

Money should be made from reserves by turning them into carbon sinks.

Who's doing emissions quality control at the quality controllers' shindig?

30 May 2008

Who do you get to do emissions quality control on New Zealand Organisation for Quality?

Carbon credit costs will skyrocket if no international trade

29 May 2008

An official report on the leading US using emissions trading bill says carbon credit costs could go up 93% if international trading in the credits is not allowed.

MARKET REPORT: Carbon fails to rebound after oil dips then rises

29 May 2008

Carbon weakened early in the face of lower oil prices and failed to rebound when oil traded higher.

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.

Global carbon market heading for e500 billion by 2020

28 May 2008

IDEAcarbon says global carbon market value could reach 500 billion euros by 2020.

G8 environment ministers fail to set emissions cut target

28 May 2008

A three-day meeting of G8 environment ministers in Japan has concluded with a familiar call for nations to agree on goals to cut emissions.

David Parker ... compliance costs too high

Parker rules out personal carbon rationing

27 May 2008

Climate Change Issues Minister David Parker is ruling out a personal carbon emissions trading scheme here.

MAD ... now voluntary offets auctioning on Trade Me for households

No early mad rush for Energy Mad's household emission credits

27 May 2008

The first ever online auction of voluntary carbon credits created by demand side energy efficiency projects in New Zealand is off to a slow start.

Adaptation
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Governments must vote in favour of moratorium on deep sea mining

Tue 29 Jul 2025

Media release - Greenpeace | The 30th session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) has ended with Greenpeace saying governments are continuing to fall short in protecting the deep sea.

Agriculture
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Awarua-Waituna Wetlands

Does NZ need a national incentive scheme for wetlands?

Fri 25 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | An expert is calling for a national incentive programme to restore New Zealand’s wetlands and wants to stop schemes to drain these vital carbon-sequestering ecosystems.

Airlines
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NZ Post drops science-based climate target

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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Airlines risk legal challenges by advertising jet fuel as “sustainable”, NGO warns

18 Jul 2025

Amid suspected fraud in the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), a new report says the airline industry should stop calling all alternatives to kerosene “sustainable”.

Biodiversity
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Challenges persist in bid to mine the deep sea, even after boost from Trump

Tue 29 Jul 2025

After years of delay, the deep-sea mining plans of Canadian firm The Metals Company (TMC) now appear to be progressing as it pursues a controversial new path to securing a license to mine in international waters under U.S. jurisdiction.

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 News world
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At least 30 killed and several missing as heavy rains and floods lash northern China

Wed 30 Jul 2025

Thousands of people were evacuated as the region, including the capital Beijing, braced for more rainfall overnight.

Carbon prices
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Bearish sentiment lingers for carbon market

11 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | The compliance carbon market could be set for a gradual upward trajectory, however unsold volume from the quarterly Emissions Trading Scheme auctions continues to act as ‘a price ceiling,’ according to an expert.

Coal
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Multi-day protest continues at coal mine

Wed 30 Jul 2025

Bathurst Resources has been forced to truck coal from its Stockton mine as climate activists occupy coal buckets at the mine for a third day.

Comment
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Huntly Power Station, the largest thermal power plan in New Zealand.

Is extending Huntly power station to 2035 in consumers’ best interest?

22 Jul 2025

By Simon Orme | COMMENT: Genesis Energy is proposing a cartel to keep high-emitting Huntly Power Station in business to 2035. If extending Huntly has economic benefits, is a cartel necessary?

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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NZ voluntary carbon market’s sad state

14 Jul 2025

By John O’Brien | OPINION: A combination of scandals, challenging economic times, and cheaper offshore carbon credits, mean that the domestic voluntary carbon market in New Zealand remains absolutely tiny.

Energy
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Hiringa chief executive Andrew Clennett

Hiringa eyes green methanol plant near Whanganui

Tue 29 Jul 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Green hydrogen pioneer Hiringa Energy is deep in planning to develop an “eight-to-nine figure” methanol plant near Whanganui, using a combination of biomass and hydrogen produced using renewable energy.

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

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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A third of ‘slum residents’ in global south are exposed to disastrous flood risks

Wed 30 Jul 2025

One in three people in informal settlements in the global south live in floodplains and are at risk of a “disastrous flood”.

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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Jim Ward, manager of Molesworth station for 24 years, resigned amid frustration with wilding pines and uncertainty about the station’s future.

Wilding pines threaten Molesworth Station

Mon 28 Jul 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Without increased support, the unchecked spread of wilding pines will continue to creep across Marlborough’s high country – putting iconic landscapes and one of New Zealand’s top five biodiversity hotspots at serious risk, according to an expert.

Gas
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EV sales fall, but it’s complicated

Tue 29 Jul 2025

Imports of fully electric vehicles fell over 50% in value during the 12 months to June 2025, compared with the year ended June 2024, according to Stats NZ.

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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SBTi releases Net Zero Standard for banks, investors

24 Jul 2025

The Science Based Targets initiative announced the release of its finalised Financial Institutions Net-Zero Standard, aimed at enabling banks and investors to set net zero-aligned targets for their lending, investing, insurance and capital markets activities.

Greenhouse Effect
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Deepsea brittle star species from New Zealand, part of the Earth Sciences New Zealand's invertebrate collection in Wellington

NZ part of hidden global deep-sea network beneath the waves

Fri 25 Jul 2025

Media release - Earth Sciences New Zealand | A world-first study of marine life, including sea creatures found in New Zealand's dark, cold, pressurised ocean depths, has revealed that deep-sea life is surprisingly more connected than previously thought.

Greenwashing
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon greets schoolchildren

‘Ideological sludge’: How NZ is quiet quitting climate action

17 Jul 2025

New Zealand once stood out as a world leader on climate change. In June it became the first country in the world to abandon a commitment to phase out oil, gas and coal.

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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Taranaki mayors want hydrogen kick-start from Wellington

Mon 28 Jul 2025

By Craig Ashworth, Local Democracy Reporter Taranaki mayors want central government to partner up with their councils to kick-start a hydrogen industry. This despite ongoing questions about the gas’s effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions.

Insurance
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Climate catastrophes are creating a ‘new market reality’ for insurance carriers

23 Jul 2025

Raging wildfires and severe storms contributed to record-high global insurance losses — totalling an estimated US$84 billion — for the first six months of the year.

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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Newcastle is one of the largest coal export ports in Australis

The ICJ’s ruling means Australia and other major polluters face a new era of climate reparations

Fri 25 Jul 2025

By Harj Narulla | OPINION: Australia has found itself on the wrong side of history.

Low carbon
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All aboard for passenger rail in the golden triangle

Mon 28 Jul 2025

Media release – The Future Is Rail | New Zealand’s national passenger rail advocacy group, The Future is Rail, has announced its strong support for the Green Party’s proposal to establish a new passenger rail service connecting Auckland and Tauranga.

NZ ETS
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Urgent action needed to get on track for climate goals - commission

Fri 25 Jul 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand is making progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but more work is needed – urgently – to set up for future reductions, according to the latest report from the Climate Change Commission.

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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Toxic algae are turning South Australia’s coral reefs into underwater graveyards

Tue 29 Jul 2025

Since March, a harmful algal bloom, fueled by a marine heat wave, has been choking South Australia’s coastline.

Paris Agreement
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The landmark advisory, which significantly transforms the obligation of states regarding climate change, being delivered at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

NZ govt’s fossil fuel plans could break international law

24 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | The government could be breaching international law with its plans to subsidise and expand fossil fuel extraction, following a ruling overnight from the world’s highest court.

Planetary boundaries
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Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’

11 Jul 2025

In the midst of a record-breaking heatwave in Europe, the UK city of Exeter recently played host to the second international conference on “tipping points”.

Plastics
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‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

Mon 28 Jul 2025

Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet.

Policy development
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Media round-up

Fri 25 Jul 2025

In our round-up of the climate coverage in local media: Dairy conversions surge; Gore is hit with a drinking water crisis; meanwhile farming lobby groups Groundswell and Federated Farmers are up in arms about a plan to classify environmental impacts in the agriculture and forestry sector.

Politics
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As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk

Wed 30 Jul 2025

As damage from climate change intensifies, political change overseas is threatening Australia’s ability to track what’s happening now, and predict what will happen next.

Protest
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Activists sue US development bank over $4.6bn loan to massive Mozambique gas project

18 Jul 2025

Environmental groups claim loan is ‘unlawful’ in legal filing.

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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China's carbon emissions may have peaked thanks to renewables push

Mon 28 Jul 2025

Climate experts say China's carbon emissions may have peaked, which could affect global climate targets, the fight against global warming – and the Australian coal industry.

Science
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Ocean heatwaves may signal climate tipping point

Fri 25 Jul 2025

A recent study that tapped into satellite data has revealed that 2023 marked an unprecedented year for marine heatwaves, with record-breaking levels of duration, reach and intensity across the world's oceans.

Tax
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Climate groups want UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy

17 Jul 2025

Growing number of campaigners urge government to ensure green investment is not done ‘on backs of the poor’.

Technology
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Can robot taxis solve NZ's transport woes?

23 Jul 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Ministry of Transport has tested the idea of driverless taxis as a futuristic fix. But while new modelling explores how "robotaxis" could ease congestion and reduce car ownership, critics say it misses a crucial point – the country’s worsening transport 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.

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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The struggle for control of the Arctic is accelerating - and it's riskier than ever

11 Jul 2025

As the battle for one of the world’s coldest places heats up, an increasingly fragile security balance may be breaking down, leading to an escalating arms race.

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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