Topics tagged with 'Carbon News world'
Earth close to ‘risk tipping points’ that will damage our ability to deal with climate crisis
27 Oct 2023
Analysis also warns of further tipping points on horizon such as drying up of groundwater vital for food supplies.
Bangladesh cyclone forces nearly 275,000 to evacuate
27 Oct 2023
Cyclone Hamoon, the latest of the numerous and deadly weather events affecting the country and creating climate refugees, has killed at least 2 and left at least 10 injured.
Rapidly intensifying hurricane slams Acapulco, Mexico
27 Oct 2023
Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph with and higher gusts, after rapidly intensifying from a tropical storm into a ferocious Category 5.
New US House Speaker a pro-oil climate change sceptic
27 Oct 2023
Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson, is a longtime ally of the oil industry and will be perhaps the most vocal skeptic of the scientific consensus on climate change ever to hold the speakership.
Chasing big mergers, oil executives dismiss peak oil concerns
27 Oct 2023
Exxon Mobil and Chevron are spending tens of billions of dollars buying oil and gas assets, betting that the International Energy Agency’s predictions of declining oil demand are wrong.
Toyota aims to put 1000 km-range Lexus EV on the road by 2026
27 Oct 2023
Toyota unveiled a Lexus concept car with a roughly 1,000 kilometre range that it aims to roll out by 2026, part of the Japanese automaker's strategic pivot to EVs reliant on advanced battery technology.
Deforestation increased in 2022 despite pledges to save forests
26 Oct 2023
The world is going “in the wrong direction” on forests, say campaigners. But some countries have reduced deforestation rates, and actions such as trade reform could yet turn the tide.
The EU is about to revive a failed climate solution
26 Oct 2023
The EU once led the world in combating flawed forest offset schemes. Now it’s looking to give them a new lease of life.
UN warns humanity facing threats from space, climate change, but it's not too late to act
26 Oct 2023
Numerous global systems humans rely on for survival are on the precipice of catastrophic tipping points, according to a new report by the United Nations University.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons gets climate change makeover
26 Oct 2023
A Spanish music director has adapted Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" to the grim reality of global warming.
21 misleading myths about electric vehicles
26 Oct 2023
Electric vehicles significantly cut lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions in almost all circumstances and are the key technology for decarbonising road transport.
World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says
25 Oct 2023
The world is on an "unstoppable" shift towards renewable energy but the phase down of fossil fuels is not happening quickly enough, a new report says.
The collapse of this Antarctic ice sheet is now 'unavoidable', even if emissions are controlled
25 Oct 2023
A study has found melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will continue to accelerate this century, at a speed three times faster than during the 20th century.
Impact of farming on climate crisis will be a key COP topic – finally
25 Oct 2023
Cop28 will discuss how global food production must become sustainable to stay within 1.5C.
Heat on UAE to give COP28 ambitious edge we need
25 Oct 2023
To meet climate goals, countries will have to get far more ambitious and quickly. Here's what to look for at COP28.
The climate crisis has a price — and it’s $391 million a day
25 Oct 2023
Damages from the global climate crisis have racked up costs amounting to $391 million per day over the past two decades, a report showed.
Over a year after Pakistan floods, survivors battle climate anxiety
25 Oct 2023
Climate anxiety among the flood-affected communities across the South Asian nation has failed to make headlines.
Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored
24 Oct 2023
Pressure from agriculture lobbies led to the role of cattle in rising global temperatures being underplayed by FAO, claim sources.
Businesses worth $1 trillion call on governments to phase out fossil fuels
24 Oct 2023
Leading firms urge world leaders to strike a deal at COP28 Climate Summit to rapidly phase down coal, oil, and gas production.
Global ‘loss and damage’ climate talks end in failure ahead of COP28
24 Oct 2023
Nations from the global north and south were unable to reach an agreement at Saturday’s vital meeting ahead of COP28, sources said.
Almost half the world’s population could be at risk from dengue due to global warming
24 Oct 2023
Once specific to small pockets of Asia, the infection can now be found across several continents of the world, say researchers.
New Paraguay law aims to improve carbon credit market
24 Oct 2023
A new law in Paraguay creates a more organised, transparent carbon credit system but might also complicate the way credits are bought and sold.
Carbon capture pipeline nixed after widespread opposition
24 Oct 2023
A company has abandoned plans to build a 1,300-mile pipeline across the US Midwest to collect and store carbon emissions from the corn ethanol industry following opposition from landowners.
EU to push for COP28 deal on phasing out fossil fuels
20 Oct 2023
EU countries' climate ministers approved the bloc's negotiating position for this year's U.N. COP28 climate summit, agreeing to push for a world-first deal to phase out CO2-emitting fossil fuels.
Carbon pricing efforts accelerate in Asia
20 Oct 2023
Asia is emerging as the key catalyst for growth in carbon trading, though the region’s markets currently cover only a fraction of emissions that account for half the world’s total.
To shut down the supply side of climate change, start here
20 Oct 2023
September was a scary month — or as one prominent climate scientist termed it, “gobsmackingly bananas.”
A secretive network is fighting Indigenous rights to protect fossil fuel profits
20 Oct 2023
It’s all part of a global playbook from the U.S.-based Atlas Network to protect the profits of fossil fuel and mining companies, argues a Sydney researcher.
45% of earth’s known flowering plants could become extinct, including orchids and pineapple
20 Oct 2023
A new State of the World’s Plant and Fungi report from Royal Botanic Gardens, presents the current conditions of Earth’s plants and fungi.
Amazon River falls to lowest in over a century amid Brazil drought
19 Oct 2023
The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem.
China to unveil new maritime cooperation initiative at belt and road summit
19 Oct 2023
‘Major plan’ will cover sustainable use of marine resources, biodiversity conservation and climate change, official says.
Shell shares hit record high as Israel-Hamas war drives up oil price
19 Oct 2023
Shell’s share price has hit a record high after concerns over the fallout from the Israel-Hamas conflict pushed up the price of oil.
‘Greater than 99% chance’ 2023 will be hottest year on record
19 Oct 2023
With three months of 2023 still remaining, analysis reveals there is a greater than 99% chance that it will be the hottest year since records began in the mid-1800s, and likely for millennia before as well.
The great cash-for-carbon hustle
19 Oct 2023
Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real.
Wonderful and wild stories about tackling climate change
19 Oct 2023
Climate solutions reporter Julia Simon says she often hears hopelessness when people talk about climate change. "Like we've already lost. People just throw up their hands ... but what if we reframe the conversation?"
Former lead negotiator: It’s up to rich countries to fix loss and damage finance problems
18 Oct 2023
The Pakistani politician who led negotiations to secure global agreement on a fund for climate loss and damages has lambasted the “burden” on vulnerable countries to identify money for the body.
How oil companies put the responsibility for climate change on consumers
18 Oct 2023
The political response to the climate crisis remains largely inadequate in the face of heat waves, hurricanes, floods and forest fires that are accelerating and intensifying.
Urgent action to cut methane emissions from fossil fuel operations essential to achieve global climate targets
18 Oct 2023
The International Energy Agency says efforts to cut methane emissions from fossil fuel production and use must go hand-in-hand with decarbonisation of our energy systems to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Africa and India push rich nations to phase out fossil fuels faster
18 Oct 2023
At Cop28, developed nations will face calls to quit fossil fuels faster than developing countries, who did less to cause the climate crisis.
Greta Thunberg at protest demanding oil chiefs pull their money out of politics
18 Oct 2023
Arrests have been made as protesters disrupted a conference at the InterContinental Hotel in central London where oil company CEOs are meeting.
What if a car frame, boat hull, or phone case could store energy
18 Oct 2023
Using a clever combination of materials and design, engineers have made a battery-like device that is strong enough to provide mechanical support.
World Bank eyes longer, cheaper loans as mission expands to climate
17 Oct 2023
The World Bank president has laid out ambitious plans to widen the development lender's mission to include climate change and other global crises, speed decision-making and offer more - and cheaper - loans.
Mideast crisis could alter outcomes of upcoming UN climate summit
17 Oct 2023
The already fraught COP28 talks are facing another potential obstacle: the threat of regional Mideast instability following Hamas' terrorist attacks in Israel.
Indonesia opens carbon trading market to both skepticism and hope
17 Oct 2023
Indonesia has just launched its first carbon emissions trading market in a bid to fight climate change.
Could superpowered plants be the heroes of the climate crisis?
17 Oct 2023
Carbon-guzzling trees and crops, genetically altered to boost photosynthesis and store carbon in the roots, could absorb millions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Climate change isn’t just about emissions. We’re ignoring a huge part of the fight.
17 Oct 2023
Last month, we heard yet again about the need to stop global warming at about 1.5 degrees centigrade above pre industrial levels.
Scientists disagree about drivers of September’s global temperature spike, but it has most of them worried
17 Oct 2023
The month’s shocking surge is likely to make 2023 the hottest year on record and drive extreme impact around the globe. It could also be a harbinger of even higher temperatures next year.
In NZ, increasingly severe crackdowns on environmental protesters fail to deter climate activists
16 Oct 2023
State and federal governments from the U.S. to Australia have enacted legislation punishing disruptive demonstrators, but many have been emboldened by the repression.
WMO report finds human activity disrupting water cycle
16 Oct 2023
According to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the planet’s hydrological cycle is “spinning out of balance” due to human activity and climate change.
Doctors aiming to shrink health care's massive carbon footprint
16 Oct 2023
Inside an operating room at Magee Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Noe Woods stands in her blue scrubs next to a black operating table.
Extreme heat is taking a toll in this Florida bay
16 Oct 2023
After enduring record summer ocean temperatures, anemones, sponges, and jellyfish throughout the Florida Everglades are showing signs of bleaching.
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.
State-owned farmer drives profit growth with emissions reductions
19 Dec 2025
By Pattrick Smellie | Government-owned Landcorp, trading as Pāmu, is one-third of the way to meeting its 2031 emissions reduction targets, with five years left to run to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30.3% against 2021 emissions.
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.
‘Cali Fund’ aiming to raise billions for nature receives first donation – of just $1,000
16 Dec 2025
A major biodiversity fund – which could, in theory, generate billions of dollars annually for conservation – received its first donation of just $1,000 in November.
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.
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.
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.
Global coal demand hit record high this year but is set to decline by 2030
18 Dec 2025
Global coal demand reached a record high in 2025 but is expected to decline by 2030 as renewables, nuclear power and abundant natural gas squeeze its dominance in power generation.
Investors must support positive climate-tech
28 Nov 2025
OPINION: We need better leadership than the current ‘climate opportunism’ that is rife in the Beehive, and we need to back a marketplace that will make it happen, writes Rob Campbell.
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.
India at COP30: A mismatch between grandstanding and climate action
11 Dec 2025
Despite India’s attempt to anoint itself as the leader of the developing world, at the COP30 summit, New Delhi’s track record remains contradictory.
Govt warned that scrapping ag emission pricing comes with risks
11 Dec 2025
By Liz Kivi | The Government’s move to halt plans for agricultural emissions pricing without replacing it with any other action will leave New Zealand facing a bigger gap to meet its third emissions budget, Environment ministry officials have warned.
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.
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.
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 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.
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”.
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.”
Westpac NZ announces partnership to form Blue Economy hub in Nelson
17 Dec 2025
Media release | Westpac NZ has announced a new three-year partnership with the Nelson Regional Development Agency and Kernohan Engineering to help accelerate the development of a sustainable marine economy – also known as the blue economy.
NZ ‘clearly’ breaching international law on climate – Vanuatu Climate Change Minister
12 Dec 2025
By Liz Kivi | Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister, Ralph Regenvanu, says New Zealand restarting fossil fuel exploration and subsidies is an obvious breach of international law, exposing the country to international and domestic litigation.
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.
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.
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.
Insurers welcome govt decision to keep NHC levy unchanged
21 Nov 2025
Media release |The Insurance Council of New Zealand | Te Kāhui Inihua o Aotearoa (ICNZ) has welcomed the Government’s decision to leave the Natural Hazards Commission levy unchanged, amid ongoing concerns around the cost-of-living.
Why I’m not outraged at the Govt’s latest climate backsliding
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.
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.
Oil and gas majors would create $78bn more value by stopping exploration
11 Dec 2025
Media release | Ten of the world’s largest oil and gas companies would create significantly more shareholder value by ending exploration and sharply curtailing upstream development, according to new analysis released today by ACCR.
Wetlands and biodiversity at risk as mining rules loosen: Greenpeace
19 Dec 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Greenpeace says Government changes to national direction instruments under the RMA paves the way for mining in wetlands and biodiversity hotspots and will expose some of Aotearoa’s most fragile ecosystems to irreversible damage.
NZ could become ‘dumping ground’ for dirty vehicles: Commissioner
16 Dec 2025
By Liz Kivi | Simon Upton, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, has warned the Government that its changes to the clean car standard could turn the country into a dumping ground for high emitting cars, making future emissions budgets harder to achieve.
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.
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.
‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement
16 Dec 2025
The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable.
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.
Govt green lights rural recycling scheme
4 Dec 2025
The Government has approved new regulations to bring rural waste schemes under one unified framework.
KiwiRail pauses coal trains amid rising climate protests
9 Dec 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | Climate activists are ramping up actions this week, with a Christchurch protest leading to KiwiRail pausing some coal train operations on Saturday, and another protest against the Fast-Track Amendment Bill planned for parliament today.
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.
Could tidal energy one day power NZ?
18 Dec 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | New research suggests Aotearoa holds some of the world’s strongest tidal-stream energy potential – enough to generate up to 93% of today’s electricity use – but one expert cautions that extracting energy at such a scale could have significant impacts and remains highly uncertain.
NZ could lose nearly all glaciers this century without stronger climate action
16 Dec 2025
New Zealand could see 97% of its glaciers vanish by 2100, with new international modelling projecting a rapid acceleration in glacier extinction from the 2030s onward – even under lower-warming scenarios.
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.
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.
The surprisingly convincing case against cars
19 Dec 2025
Life After Cars dares to imagine how different, and enriching, a car-free world could be.
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.
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.
NZ just had its hottest spring in at least 116 years
10 Dec 2025
By Shannon Morris-Williams | This year New Zealand had its hottest spring since records began, with widespread heat, rainfall extremes and destructive wind driven by sudden stratospheric warming.
Media round-up
12 Dec 2025
In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: Another offshore wind firm exits New Zealand over a clash with seabed mining; Fonterra falls behind on its climate goals as farm emissions remain flat; and the businesses trapped by the gas 'death spiral'.
