Topics tagged with 'Carbon News world'
Eighty-eight countries to present oral arguments in international court’s climate hearing
25 Oct 2024
The International Court of Justice will determine the existing financial liability of countries for their contribution to climate change, with over 100 countries and organisations presenting over 12 days at the hearing starting in December.
United States: 'Worrying confluence' of flood risk, social vulnerability and climate change denial
25 Oct 2024
In certain parts of the United States, especially Appalachia, New England and the Northwest, the ability of residents to prepare for and respond to flooding is being undercut on three different levels.
Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, 'impacting the entire world for centuries to come,' leading climate scientists warn
24 Oct 2024
Forty-four of the world's leading climate scientists have called on Nordic policymakers to address the potentially imminent and "devastating" collapse of key Atlantic Ocean currents.
Four lessons from 30 years of US-China climate cooperation
24 Oct 2024
A look back reveals four crucial lessons for future engagement and global progress.
Greek PM deplores worst climate conditions in four decades
24 Oct 2024
Wildfire-plagued Greece has suffered its worst year in terms of climate conditions in four decades in 2024, its prime minister told parliament on Wednesday.
US disaster loan program exhausts funds after Hurricane Helene
24 Oct 2024
The U.S. Small Business Administration said on Tuesday it has exhausted funds for its disaster loan program following increased demand from Hurricane Helene, with the U.S. Congress being in recess.
American university requires students to take a class on climate change
24 Oct 2024
To better prepare students for a future shaped by climate change, University of California, San Diego is requiring students to take at least one course relating to climate change in order to meet graduation requirements.
King Charles to face climate protests as he heads to Samoa for Commonwealth summit
23 Oct 2024
King Charles just faced a protest in Australia and he could be confronted with another at the upcoming Commonwealth summit, where the UK is under mounting pressure to provide financial reparations for its role in the climate crisis as well as slavery.
Germany earmarks $3 billion for decarbonisation subsidies
23 Oct 2024
The German government has earmarked up to 2.8 billion euros to support 15 industrial companies in their bid to decarbonise under its first round of "climate protection contracts".
Pacific and Caribbean island nations call for the first universal carbon levy on international shipping emissions
23 Oct 2024
The International Maritime Organization has been asked to enact a carbon levy of $150 per ton of emissions from large freight and passenger ships. The IMO’s 175 member nations have until next year to vote.
Cities face ‘severe degradation’ without meaningful climate action, warn experts
23 Oct 2024
Cities that fail to take meaningful climate action face a future of severe degradation with infrastructure collapse and environmental deterioration, climate and health experts warn.
Public EV chargers are good for business as well as the planet
23 Oct 2024
Research shows that businesses with charging stations nearby see an economic boost.
Where there’s smoke: the rising death toll from climate-charged fire in the landscape
23 Oct 2024
Now, new international research has linked the warming climate to some of the deaths from exposure to fire smoke in large parts of the world.
Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, warn biodiversity experts
22 Oct 2024
As the Cop16 conference begins, scientists and academics say human activity has pushed the world into a danger zone.
Climate on the agenda at Commonwealth heads of govt meeting
22 Oct 2024
Climate change and the fate of global oceans will be in sharp focus at the meeting in Samoa, which will feature King Charles and possibly Elon Musk.
Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals
22 Oct 2024
Global electricity generation from solar will quadruple by 2030 and help to push coal power into reverse, according to analysis of data from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Toronto and Montreal move ahead with fossil fuel ad restrictions on transit
22 Oct 2024
The motions are backed by federal anti-greenwashing laws aiming to stem the tide of misinformation produced by Canada’s oil and gas industry.
Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy
22 Oct 2024
Indonesia’s strategy for increasing renewable energy production could see Indigenous communities lose huge swathes of their forests to biomass plantations.
New report condemns increasing violence and legal retaliation against environmental activists
22 Oct 2024
Global Climate Legal Defense launched the report and a photo exhibit of environmentalists persecuted by governments and the fossil fuel industry at the close of last month’s Climate Week NYC.
UN asks Asia-Pacific countries to invest more in preventing damage from disasters
21 Oct 2024
Disasters, including those wrought by fiercer storms, are threatening more people and could derail economic progress in the Asia Pacific region if governments don’t invest more in disaster mitigation and prevention.
New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters
21 Oct 2024
Oil majors’ conduct can constitute reckless endangerment due to fossil fuels’ effect on global heating, advocates claim.
Political candidates who fight climate change stand to benefit in election
21 Oct 2024
A majority of Floridians expressed support for political candidates who fight climate change in a new Florida Atlantic University survey.
The growing threat of climate-sensitive infectious diseases
21 Oct 2024
Ahead of the Paris Olympics, authorities closely monitored and prepared for dengue in Paris due to its potential to spread in the increasingly warm climate of the region.
Weather forecasting is deadly for marine wildlife
21 Oct 2024
Globally, hundreds of thousands of weather balloons are launched every year, and become a threat to marine animals after they burst—though the scale of their impact remains unknown.
Why might people believe in human-made hurricanes? Two conspiracy theory psychologists explain
21 Oct 2024
While most people turned to meteorologists for explanations during Florida's recent hurricanes, a vocal minority remained sceptical, proposing that the hurricanes were engineered, that Florida’s weather was being manipulated, or even that it was targeted at Republican voters.
Tracking negotiating texts at the UN’s COP16 biodiversity summit
18 Oct 2024
Delegates are descending on Cali, Colombia for the first set of biodiversity negotiations since the world’s nations agreed a landmark deal in 2022 to “halt and reverse” nature loss by the end of the decade.
US charges against carbon-offsetting boss highlight wider industry problems
18 Oct 2024
Kenneth Newcombe, a carbon-offsetting pioneer, is accused of a 100-million-dollar fraud scheme that could see him sentenced to 20 years in jail.
Brazil state to consult Indigenous people on carbon credits sale
18 Oct 2024
The government of the Brazilian state of Para in the Amazon will consult Indigenous communities on how they will benefit from the future sale of carbon offset credits that U.S. companies have agreed to buy to try to protect the rainforest.
What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finland
18 Oct 2024
Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores.
Qantas accused of greenwashing as climate advocates lodge complaint over sustainability, net zero claims
17 Oct 2024
An environmental advocacy group has lodged a complaint with the consumer watchdog over claims Qantas makes on sustainability and climate.
Emails reveal BP gave $550,000 to group fighting climate lawsuits
17 Oct 2024
The Manufacturer’s Accountability Project is ubiquitous fighting cities’ and states’ suits against oil companies. Now it’s clear it’s being funded directly by at least one of those companies.
Worst drought in century devastates Southern Africa, millions at risk
17 Oct 2024
More than 27 million lives affected by worst drought in a century, with 21 million children malnourished, says WFP.
Washington state's landmark climate law hangs in the balance this election
17 Oct 2024
A groundbreaking law that forces companies in Washington state to reduce their carbon emissions while raising billions of dollars for climate programs could be repealed by voters this fall, less than two years after it took effect.
‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
17 Oct 2024
Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow Republicans.
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
16 Oct 2024
The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating.
BP abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy
16 Oct 2024
BP has abandoned a target to cut oil and gas output by 2030 as CEO Murray Auchincloss scales back the firm's energy transition strategy to regain investor confidence.
Deforestation remains low, but fires surge in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest
16 Oct 2024
The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has remained near a six-year low despite a surge in the number of fires burning in Earth’s largest rainforest.
Electric car sales have slumped. Misinformation is one of the reasons
16 Oct 2024
Battery electric vehicle sales in Australia have flattened in recent months.
The climate crisis threatens societal collapse—how many more hurricanes will it take for us to wake up?
16 Oct 2024
COMMENT: As a new scientific report warns that the world is on the ‘brink of an irreversible climate disaster’, why do politicians and the media seem so uninterested?
How major companies can help their suppliers decarbonise
16 Oct 2024
In some assessments, the boldest way for companies to address climate change is to look beyond their operations and cut emissions across their value chain. That means eliminating emissions from their suppliers as well as how their customers use their products.
UN approves carbon market safeguards to protect environment and human rights
15 Oct 2024
Developers of carbon credit projects will have to carry out a risk assessment and minimise any social or environmental impacts.
Carbon removal no solution if world overshoots warming target, scientists say
15 Oct 2024
Even greater efforts to strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will fail to avert climate change catastrophe as rising global temperatures threaten to cross a key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Gas utility sued for climate deception
15 Oct 2024
Multnomah County, Oregon, says NW Natural “engaged in an enterprise of misrepresentation” about its products’ harm to the climate.
If renewable power becomes too cheap to meter, is that a climate win?
15 Oct 2024
When any single climate fix seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Rising disaster costs leave U.S. confronting fiscal risks of climate change
15 Oct 2024
As storms, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather events strike with greater frequency and intensity, repairing and rebuilding has grown more costly, too.
UN carbon trading expert group agrees deal on market framework
14 Oct 2024
A UN expert group has reached a compromise on key elements of a global carbon trading system, in a bid to resolve nearly a decade of talks on what is seen as an important tool for raising climate finance.
Companies that fought climate action now accused of price gouging Hurricane Milton evacuees
14 Oct 2024
For years, United, American, and other airlines have led massive lobbying efforts against regulations to prevent climate change.
Indigenous groups in Brazil: We were not consulted on carbon credits
14 Oct 2024
Indigenous organizations in the Brazilian state of Para said they were not consulted by the government before it signed a deal with multinational companies to sell carbon offset credits to support conservation of the Amazon rainforest in the state.
Marine carbon dioxide removal is about to go big
14 Oct 2024
Following its Singaporean pilot project, carbon sequestration start-up Equatic aims to build a massive plant in Quebec.
The EU’s (vague) climate aid stance: Want more money? Get more donors
14 Oct 2024
The bloc won’t say how much money it’s willing to put up before other details are firmed up.
Is climate law change a first nail in the coffin for Climate Commission?
Thu 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.
Big ag processors coy about govt changing climate policy
Today 10:30am
By Liz Kivi | While some economists are predicting that government backsliding on agricultural methane goals could hurt exporters’ access to premium markets, New Zealand’s major processors are remaining tight-lipped over the potential implications.
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.
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.
DOC trims costs and winds down jobs for nature
Today 10:30am
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.
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.
Does NZ's 2035 NDC meet Paris Agreement obligations?
Fri 7 Nov 2025
By Christina Hood | COMMENT: New Zealand’s 2035 Paris Agreement Target needs strengthening, with multiple reasons the 51 to 55% emissions reduction target does not meet our obligations under the accord.
Carbon market tanks off the back of Govt’s proposed climate law changes
Thu 6 Nov 2025
By Liz Kivi | Secondary market prices dropped 20% in early morning compliance carbon trading yesterday, as the market woke up to Tuesday’s late-breaking government announcement of proposed law changes to climate policy.
Scrutiny on energy security
3 Nov 2025
A special debate in Parliament put the Government’s energy security agenda under scrutiny, with parties splitting sharply over the role of gas, the place of an LNG import terminal, and how far to push market reform to ease pressure on power bills.
'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.
$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.
Leaders of world’s biggest polluters are no-shows as heads of state gather for UN climate summit
Today 10:30am
World leaders descending on the United Nations annual climate summit in Brazil on Thursday will not need to see much more than the view from their airplane window to sense the unfathomable stakes.
Why I’m not outraged at the Govt’s latest climate backsliding
Fri 7 Nov 2025
COMMENT: The Government’s latest climate rollbacks underline New Zealand’s long history of a lack of genuine desire to cut emissions, writes Geoff Bertram.
Nation-building projects and the energy transition
Today 10:30am
By Ian Mason | COMMENT: Last month, the Labour Party announced its first key election policy: to create a ‘New Zealand Future Fund’ to deliver “lasting national value, stronger communities, lower costs, more resilient industries, and opportunities that keep talent and ideas in New Zealand”.
From nuisance to crisis: New report on pest wasps In Aotearoa
24 Sep 2025
Media release: Moths and Butterflies NZ Trust | Just published is the Final Report of the Pest Wasps Survey carried out by the Moths and Butterflies of NZ Trust (MBNZT) offering a comprehensive look at New Zealanders’ awareness, experiences, and attitudes toward wasps and the growing ecological, health, and social issues associated with them.
Solar geoengineering in wrong hands could wreak climate havoc, scientists warn
Thu 6 Nov 2025
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds.
NZ marine heatwaves could double in intensity under high-emissions pathway
16 Oct 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | New projections show marine heatwaves will grow more intense around the North Island and more frequent around the South Island as the climate warms – raising risks for fisheries, aquaculture, coastal ecosystems and tourism.
Govt delays will damage carbon market confidence, experts warn
Tue 4 Nov 2025
By Liz Kivi | Emissions Trading Scheme experts have warned the Government that its move to delay decisions on the country’s emissions budgets will further undermine confidence in an already weak carbon market.
Govt gas expansion 'climate vandalism' – Greens
Fri 7 Nov 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Green Party has labelled the Government’s move to broaden the scope of its $200 million fossil gas investment fund as vandalism, accusing Prime Minister Christopher Luxon of breaking trust with New Zealanders.
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.”
Bank of England must better address climate risk to tackle inflation
Tue 4 Nov 2025
The central bank is being urged to take a series of actions to better respond to environmental risks.
No major banks have yet committed to stop funding new oil, gas and coal, research finds
24 Oct 2025
‘The objectives of the Paris agreement are slipping further out of reach,’ say researchers.
TotalEnergies loses in Paris court, marking a turning point for fossil fuel truth-in-advertising
Wed 5 Nov 2025
TotalEnergies was found to have misled consumers about its role in the energy transition.
Lake Onslow battery project set for revival?
29 Oct 2025
A newly formed private consortium has emerged with plans to finance and build the massive Lake Onslow pumped-hydro project, despite the coalition government’s decision to abandon the scheme.
Hiringa eyes green methanol plant near Whanganui
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.
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?
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.
Z Energy settles greenwashing case over ‘quitting petrol’ claims
Tue 4 Nov 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Z Energy has settled a landmark greenwashing case over claims it misled the public about moving away from petrol – a result Lawyers for Climate Action NZ says delivers long-overdue accountability.
Nelson commuters urged to ditch car once a week
22 Oct 2025
By Max Frethey, Local Democracy Reporter | Nelson has a bold carbon emission reduction target and residents are being encouraged to leave the car at home one day a week to help meet it.
Supermarket fast-track a ‘cynical ploy’, risks climate and environmental protections
Wed 5 Nov 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government’s “express lane for supermarkets” announcement has been met with fierce backlash, with critics calling the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill a Trojan horse that strips environmental protections, sidelines communities, and hands sweeping powers to ministers at the expense of democracy.
Undermining the ETS is poor policy – Mindful Money
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Politicising settings for the Emissions Trading Scheme creates uncertainty for investors at a time when we need clear and stable policy, says Mindful Money's Barry Coates.
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.
Climate impacts hit NZ with increasing wild weather
23 Oct 2025
By Liz Kivi | New Zealand is facing a triple whammy of climate impacts today, with severe winds and rainfall predicted for much of the country while some areas are still dealing with wildfires ignited earlier in the week.
EU’s new climate target lines up multibillion dollar boost for carbon markets
Today 10:30am
Analysts estimate the EU will buy at least 50 billion euros worth of carbon credits in the 2030s to help meet its emissions-cutting goals.
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.
Lobby group launches ‘blueprint’ for ocean management reform
18 Sep 2025
The Environmental Defence Society yesterday released its plan to tackle widespread ecological decline in our oceans.
Cost gaps in Fast-Track law could silence environmental voices – EDS
Today 10:30am
By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Environmental Defence Society is warning that flaws in the Fast-Track Approvals Act 2024 could shut out critical conservation input, after legal advice found key statutory bodies can’t recover costs for participating in the process and councils face uncertainty over which costs are covered.
Judge says Greenpeace must pay $345 million in pipeline lawsuit, cutting jury amount nearly in half
31 Oct 2025
A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago.
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.
Here comes the sun: solar surge gathers pace
Tue 4 Nov 2025
More than $700 million of new solar investment advanced last week, underscoring the pace of the renewable buildout.
AgriZero backs first nitrous oxide solution with $1.2m investment
Thu 6 Nov 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | A Kiwi ag-tech start-up developing a device for cows to wear to drastically cut nitrous oxide emissions has secured $1.2 million in government-industry funding.
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.
Climate scientists and republican lawyers are taking aim at Big Tech’s emissions
17 Oct 2025
Technology companies have long been one of the biggest investors in clean energy, but new accounting rules could upend that.
Last minute change to oil and gas legislation over cleanup costs
31 Jul 2025
By Liz Kivi | The government is expected to repeal the oil and gas ban today, with a last-minute amendment handing discretionary power to two ministers over the controversial issue of decommissioning.
How ‘vehicle-to-grid’ technology could boost China’s electricity system
31 Oct 2025
China’s surging electric vehicles ownership – now exceeding 25.5m – is opening the door to a new technology that can help to enhance the flexibility of electricity supply.
Fix it, don't ditch it: University of Auckland hosts first Repair Cafe
9 Oct 2025
Media release - Auckland University | The University's first-ever Repair Cafe is bringing students and staff together to give broken items a new lease on life, while promoting a culture of repair and reuse.
Council buys dairy farm to help clean up Lake Rotorua
21 Oct 2025
Bay of Plenty Regional Council has bought a 266-hectare dairy farm in the Lake Rotorua catchment and plans to retire it from production to reduce nitrogen entering the lake.
Adaptation plan at odds with public sentiment: survey
21 Oct 2025
By Liz Kivi | The Government’s position on climate adaptation buyouts shows a disconnect with public opinion, according to survey findings from insurer Suncorp NZ.
‘Damp squib’ – Govt energy plan slammed for locking in fossil fuels
2 Oct 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Critics across business, climate groups and the opposition say the Government’s electricity reforms duck structural change, double down on LNG and gas, and offer little relief for soaring power prices – warning of an “expensive white elephant", deeper energy poverty and a missed chance to scale renewables.
