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New IPCC report shows the ‘climate time bomb is ticking,’ says UN Secretary General António Guterres

21 Mar 2023

The latest climate science assessment warns—once again—that global warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius would be devastating for Earth’s people and ecosystems.

Aussie rooftop solar payback periods are back down to near record-lows

21 Mar 2023

Rising Australian power prices are bringing rooftop solar payback periods back down towards the record low seen in 2020, almost completely wiping out the impact of higher component costs.

Underwater turbulence revealed as a key factor in climate change

21 Mar 2023

When someone mentions waves, we are most likely to think of the beach and surfers riding breaks to shore, not the waves deep beneath the ocean's surface. Now, new research has shed light on the important role underwater waves play in climate change

Biden administration pours millions into new effort to reduce methane emissions

21 Mar 2023

The Biden administration is pumping federal dollars into a new climate effort aimed at reducing methane emissions. However, they’re also facing criticism this week from environmental advocates because of a different decision.

Fossil fuel ad campaign misled Canadians, claims Competition Board complaint

21 Mar 2023

The environmental group Greenpeace has filed a complaint with Canada’s Competition Bureau against a coalition of the country’s six largest oil sands producers for running what they allege is a “misleading” and “anti-competitive” advertising campaign.

US Navy secretary cites climate change as top priority as Biden proposes shrinking the fleet

20 Mar 2023

US navy secretrary Carlos Del Toro said he sees fighting climate change as a top priority for the Navy as the Biden administration proposes shrinking the fleet by two ships and worries grow about how the US Navy stacks up to China’s.

Weathering the storm: How Japan is factoring climate change into defence policy

20 Mar 2023

Storm surges, flooding, more powerful typhoons and scorching temperatures — climate change will bring more of all to Japan, endangering military sites, personnel and gear, but also putting Tokyo and the Indo-Pacific at greater risk of geopolitical shocks.

Plan to reduce emissions will have unintended consequences on Australian agriculture, farmers say

20 Mar 2023

A debate is raging over what role carbon offsets and agriculture will play as Australia deals with the complicated task of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil fuel executives see a ‘golden age’ for gas, if they can brand it as ‘clean’

20 Mar 2023

Natural gas has long been subject to a war of words. Once it was a “bridge fuel” that would straddle the gap from fossil energy to renewable sources. More recently, climate activists have sought to highlight that gas pollutes, too, by stripping “natural” from its name and calling it fossil- or methane gas.

New report reveals major flaws with flagship carbon credits scheme on Indigenous land in Kenya

17 Mar 2023

A new report released today by Survival International exposes major flaws in a flagship carbon credits scheme whose customers have included Meta and Netflix.

As climate woes worsen, Africa's ecconomies suffer: UN

17 Mar 2023

From devastating cyclones and floods to an unrelenting drought, African countries are spending between 2% and 9% of their budgets to respond to extreme weather events, according to a United Nations report.

Only 3% are aware of meat’s impact on the climate

17 Mar 2023

Despite accounting for the same quantity of emissions as transport globally, only 3 per cent of people in the UK, US, France and Brazil think livestock farming is a leading cause of global warming, according to exclusive polling shared with Spotlight.

A warmer, wetter climate challenges a Chinese eco-farm

17 Mar 2023

In recent years, a new narrative has appeared on Chinese social media: that a warmer and wetter climate in Northwest China will herald a return to the “golden age” of the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD).

Greece must make up for lost time in climate adaptation

17 Mar 2023

A string of devastating wildfires and floods has forced Greece to step up its lagging climate adaptation efforts.

How to promote green industry beyond subsidies

17 Mar 2023

The leaked draft of the Net Zero Industry Act rightly highlights a need to plan better the necessary industrial transformation of the EU. It considers a host of measures aimed at promoting specific industries, including streamlined permits, access to public and private finance and priority for public procurement.

Lawyers and activists build pressure on Korean court to rule on climate

16 Mar 2023

Kim Seo-kyung was a teenager in March 2020, when she and 18 other members of campaign group Youth4ClimateAction filed the first climate lawsuit in Korea’s constitutional court, arguing that their government’s efforts to curb emissions fell far short of what was required.

Older Swiss women take government to court over climate

16 Mar 2023

Elisabeth Stern was born in rural northeastern Switzerland in the 1940s in the shadow of huge glaciers.

Crunch time for South Australia’s bold green hydrogen play as bids close

16 Mar 2023

Bids for South Australia’s bold plan to build a state-funded green hydrogen electrolyser and power plant at the steel city of Whyalla have closed, with Andrew Forrest’s new green energy play likely leading a hungry pack of local and international suppliers.

DRC dilemma: Generate oil wealth or combat climate change?

16 Mar 2023

The Democratic Republic of Congo wants more money for climate projects. Otherwise, oil drilling could replace fishermen in the world's largest peat bog. And that could spell devastation for the environment.

IMF approves first batch of climate resilience loans

16 Mar 2023

Jamaica is the latest country to get IMF board approval for loans under the Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), following the acceptance of Costa Rica, Barbados, Rwanda and Bangladesh in the last six months.

Germany is failing to reach its climate goals

16 Mar 2023

In a press conference on 9 March the German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, presented his plan for accelerating the shift away from fossil fuel energy in a so-called “workshop report”.

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future

15 Mar 2023

Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a “liveable” future at risk.

Biden approves ConocoPhillips’ Willow project to drill oil in the Alaskan Arctic

15 Mar 2023

The Biden administration gave final approval Monday to a major Arctic oil project, marking one of its most significant and controversial decisions on climate change and energy.

‘Dead’ electric car batteries find a second life powering cities

15 Mar 2023

Last month, a small warehouse in the English city of Nottingham received the crucial final components for a project that leverages the power of used EV batteries to create a new kind of circular economy.

French TV transforms weather forecasts to include climate change context

15 Mar 2023

State TV channels France 2 and France 3 have changed their daily weather forecasts into "weather and climate bulletins" as pat of France Televisions’ efforts to raise awareness about climate change. Presenters are showing not only what weather to expect, but the reasons behind it.

What Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse means for climate tech

15 Mar 2023

As the buoyancy drained out of the tech sector last year, leading to almost 100,000 job cuts in the U.S., cleantech looked like a bright spot.

Global ecosystems are at risk of losing carbon storage ability: study

15 Mar 2023

Several regions of the world are at risk of losing their ability to store carbon, which could result in the drastic transformation of ecosystems and accelerated climate change, one recent study has found.

Jet-Setters

14 Mar 2023

By Marco D'Eramo - Sidecar | In the first two hundred days of 2022, Taylor Swift’s private jet made 170 flights, covering an average distance of 133 miles. It emitted 8,293 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the process.

Companies eye ‘carbon insetting’ as winning climate solution; critics wary

14 Mar 2023

Carbon offsetting has a controversial 25-year history, with companies like Microsoft and Apple pledging their plans to go carbon neutral, or negative, by allowing aspects of their operations to continue emitting at a certain level, while removing as much, or more, carbon from the air via reforestation or other projects elsewhere in the world.

Date set for Australia’s first offshore wind auction as ports prepare for massive turbines

14 Mar 2023

The state of Victoria will hold the first auctions in Australia for offshore wind projects in 2025 to ensure that the first tranche of at least two gigawatts of the new technology is built before the first of the state’s last two coal generators closes down.

New mechanism provides a key tool for countries to meet their climate goals

14 Mar 2023

The full operationalisation of the ‘Article 6.4 mechanism’, as established in the Paris Agreement, is key to help countries unlock the goals set out in their climate action plans, said UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell.

Governments vet crucial UN climate science report

14 Mar 2023

Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists began a week-long huddle in Switzerland on Monday to distil nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about the existential danger of global warming and what to do about it.

Architects not adopting biomaterials are "dinosaurs"

14 Mar 2023

Canadian mass-timber pioneer Michael Green has hit out at architects designing unusually shaped buildings rather than embracing biomaterials in this interview as part of Dezeen's Timber Revolution series.

Why saving the whales means saving ourselves

13 Mar 2023

In 2016, disturbing footage captured on a sunny beach in Argentina went viral. The video appeared in news outlets around the world under variations of a disquieting headline: “Baby dolphin dies after a mob of tourists pass it around to pose for selfies.”

Climate-stressed Iraq says it will plant 5 million trees

13 Mar 2023

Iraq's prime minister on Sunday announced a campaign to combat the severe impacts of climate change on the water-scarce country, including by planting five million palms and trees.

Dutch farmers, climate activists hold protests in The Hague

13 Mar 2023

More than 10,000 Dutch farmers protested in The Hague on Saturday against the government's plans to limit nitrogen emissions.

UK pension funds target BP and Shell directors over climate goals- FT

13 Mar 2023

Two of the UK's largest pension schemes will vote against the renewal of top directors at BP Plc (BP.L) and Shell Plc (SHEL.L) at their annual meetings unless both companies strengthen commitments to tackling carbon emissions, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

Washington raises $300M in its first auction for carbon pollution permits – here’s what it means

13 Mar 2023

The results are in for Washington State's first auction of carbon pollution permits. The cap-and-invest program brought in $300 million from many of state’s biggest emitters, including fossil fuel refineries and energy utilities.

Chinese rice farming trials cut methane emissions

13 Mar 2023

In a mountain village in south-west China, the local people are playing a guessing game. A new climate-friendly way of growing rice is being trialed here that will reduce methane emissions. So, what’s the difference in yield between it and the conventional method?

Australia is still trailing well behind 82% renewable target, despite investment bump

10 Mar 2023

Australia has received a welcome investment bump in new financially committed new wind, solar and storage projects in the last quarter, but the country remains well behind the rate of investment needed to reach its declared target of 82% renewables by 2030

U.N. official: Decarbonisation might not happen fast enough to stop climate change

10 Mar 2023

The world is not acting fast enough on global warming, according to a top official at the United Nations.

New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise

10 Mar 2023

A new way of sucking carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in the sea has been outlined by scientists.

The Indigenous congressional climate push

10 Mar 2023

Tribal producers from across the country were among more than a dozen farm groups lobbying Capitol Hill lawmakers this week to empower farmers to address climate change in the 2023 farm bill.

Scientists use TikTok to explain, fight climate change

10 Mar 2023

With his moustache caked in icicles and frozen droplets, glaciologist Peter Neff shows his 220,000 TikTok followers a sample of old ice excavated from Antarctica's Allan Hills.

Mass timber should "always start with forest health": expert

10 Mar 2023

Increasing use of mass timber in architecture is driving good forest management practices in the United States, says Forest Business Network co-founder Arnie Didier in this interview as part of our Timber Revolution series.

An oil CEO who will head global climate talks this year calls for lowered emissions

9 Mar 2023

A top oil company CEO who will lead international climate talks later this year told energy industry power players on Monday that the world must cut emissions 7% each year and eliminate all releases of the greenhouse gas methane — strong comments from an oil executive.

US treasury secretary Yellen warns that losses tied to climate change could ‘cascade through the financial system’

9 Mar 2023

US treasury secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday warned that climate change is already taking a significant economic toll and could cause extensive losses to the U.S. financial system in the coming years.

Threat of rising seas to Asian megacities could be way worse than we thought, study warns

9 Mar 2023

Parts of Asia’s largest cities could be under water by 2100 thanks to rising sea levels, according to a new study that combines both the impact of climate change with natural oceanic fluctuations.

Denmark injects carbon dioxide into undersea storage in world first

9 Mar 2023

European companies have injected carbon dioxide below Denmark’s seabed for the first time in an ambitious project that could become a key component in the fight against climate change.

Climate change blamed for declines in mountain plants

9 Mar 2023

Climate change has likely led to the decline of some of Scotland's mountain plants, according to new research.

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Fifty years of observations, no reversal of glacier climate damage

31 Mar 2026

Media release: Earth Sciences New Zealand | Fifty years on from the first aerial survey of our Southern Alps glaciers, late snow and variable summer weather delivered a temporary reprieve from rapid ice loss, says Earth Sciences New Zealand.

Agriculture
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From war to weather: A ‘super El Niño’ event poses fresh risks to global food costs

Today 12:15pm

An unusually powerful El Niño later this year could exacerbate food security fears as disruption caused by the Iran war strains supply for crucial fertilier products.

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$30m airline fund risks ‘burning public money’ without lasting benefit – expert

20 Mar 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A $30 million government package to support regional air routes risks delivering poor value for money while increasing emissions, according to transport strategist Tim Adriaansen.

Aviation
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Media round-up

Today 12:15pm

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: Past fuel price spikes failed to shift Kiwis out of their cars with signs suggesting it’s happening again, a 'she’ll be right' attitude is not enough in a climate crisis, and should forestry be listed as critical in the government's national fuel plan?

Biodiversity
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Cook River near Fox Glacier

Environmental groups launch legal action over Govt's 'tick-box approach' to conservation land

Wed 8 Apr 2026

By Liz Kivi | Forest & Bird and the Environmental Defence Society are taking the Government to court over decisions about the future of publicly-owned land on Te Tai Poutini/the West Coast.

Biofuels
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New alliance wants renewable-led energy – and Govt to press pause on LNG

Thu 9 Apr 2026

A newly formed coalition of business, consumer and energy organisations has unveiled a renewable-led strategy it says will strengthen the country’s energy security, and it’s calling on the Government to pause its plan for an LNG import terminal.

Carbon Credits
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Carbon ‘stockpile’ up 9 million in March quarter

Today 12:15pm

By Liz Kivi | The ‘stockpile’ of pollution permits (NZUs) in private accounts has increased by just over 9 million to almost 145 million since the end of 2025, according to the latest figures from the Environmental Protection Authority.

Carbon prices
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Economic contraction will impact carbon market

1 Apr 2026

By Liz Kivi | While higher fossil fuel prices strengthen the long-run economics of decarbonisation, the current fuel crisis won’t inspire near-term confidence in the carbon market, according to Lizzie Chambers of Carbon Match.

Coal
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Activist ends five-day tree-top protest at West Coast coal mine

Today 12:15pm

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A climate activist has ended a five-day tree-top occupation that blocked access to Bathurst Resources’ Cypress Mine on the West Coast, in a protest against plans to expand what could become New Zealand’s largest coal mine.

Comment
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Supply-side pressures and political uncertainty ahead for carbon market

Tue 7 Apr 2026

By Kristen Green | ANALYSIS: With failed auctions, a surge of new forestry registrations, and an election a few months away, the NZ ETS in 2026 will be subject to a mix of supply-side pressures and political uncertainty.

Construction
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Sustainable retail-office project breaks ground under new Green Star framework

19 Feb 2026

Construction is set to begin on a new retail-office development in central Auckland, which is targeting a 40% reduction in embodied carbon and 25% lower energy.

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

Opposition attacks Govt over fossil fuel phaseout backdown

2 Feb 2026

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

Emissions trading
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Carbon price: Ups and downs amid geopolitical uncertainty

26 Mar 2026

By Liz Kivi | After ups and downs in recent weeks, the carbon market again broke above the $40 mark this week, with questions around how the Middle East conflict will play out weighing on market confidence.

Energy
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Govt tweaks consenting rules for EV chargers

Today 12:15pm

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government has announced a national reset of planning rules for EV chargers, which it says aim to address infrastructure shortages which have put the brakes on electric vehicle uptake in New Zealand.

Extinction
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WWF-New Zealand chief executive Kayla Kingdon-Bebb

Environmental groups call for ETS reform

20 Feb 2026

Several environmental organisations are calling on political parties to make climate and biodiversity central to the 2026 election campaign, with reforming the Emissions Trading Scheme seen as a key priority.

Extreme weather
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Climate change means a 2004-level flood would likely be worse today

Today 12:15pm

By Rebecca Hogan, Local Democracy Reporter | If floods equivalent to the devastating 2004 event hit Manawatū today, it is predicted the outcome would be more extreme “as a result of climate change”.

Fishing
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Transport dominates NZ’s rising consumer emissions

10 Dec 2025

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

Forestry
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Wellington planting nears one million trees

30 Mar 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Greater Wellington’s parks restoration programme will hit one million native trees this year, with the first dams to rewet peat wetlands in Queen Elizabeth Park now completed after a years-long effort to bring these ecosystems – and their carbon sequestering superpowers – back to life.

Fossil fuels
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Huntly Power Station

Genesis fires up pellet study with Nature’s Flame

Wed 8 Apr 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | Genesis Energy is extending its quest for locally produced torrefied wood pellets to supplement coal and gas to fuel its Huntly power station, announcing it is investigating plant construction with established local solid fuels player Nature’s Flame.

Gas
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A matter of strategy

Tue 7 Apr 2026

COMMENT: Even on the brink of a global commodities crisis, the possibilities for climate action aren't hopelessly foreclosed. Strategy can turn our fortunes around, writes David Hall.

Geothermal
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RMA to speed up fossil fuel consents

18 Aug 2025

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

Green finance
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FMA to ease conditions for green bond issues

31 Mar 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | Green, social and sustainability-linked bonds will face lower disclosure requirements and regulatory costs under a class exemption newly granted by the Financial Markets Authority.

Greenhouse Effect
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New protections for NZ migratory species under UN convention

2 Apr 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New international protections for migratory species, including several found in New Zealand, are a positive step – but global protections won’t halt the decline of migratory species on their own, experts say.

Greenwashing
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Greenpeace spokesperson Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn

Fonterra admits ‘100% grass-fed’ claim breached law in greenwashing row

2 Apr 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Fonterra has admitted its “100% New Zealand grass-fed” claims on Anchor butter were misleading and breached the law, settling a case brought by Greenpeace Aotearoa over packaging used between December 2023 and April 2025.

Hydro power
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Climate Change and Energy Minister Simon Watts

Govt missing opportunity to slash electricity prices, says expert

11 Feb 2026

By Liz Kivi | The Government’s fixation on eliminating the "dry-year risk margin" as a lever to reduce costs misses a much bigger opportunity to lower electricity prices, according to Christina Hood, head of Compass Climate.

Hydrogen
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Castlepoint lighthouse, Wairarapa

NZ prepares to join ‘gold rush’ for white hydrogen

25 Mar 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | New Zealand may be close to commercialising the capture and use of naturally occurring ‘white’ hydrogen, with investment plans for developments in the Wairarapa region picking up pace in response to spiralling oil prices.

Insurance
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Media round-up

20 Mar 2026

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: Crown lawyers agree High Court could quash emissions plan if found unlawful; NZ is locked in 'disaster inertia'; and climate change is notably absent from new development laws.

Kyoto
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Waitangi Treaty Grounds

Climate law change spanner in the works for Waitangi Tribunal Inquiry

19 Dec 2025

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

Litigation
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Lawyers complain to ombudsman over Govt failure to release LNG modelling

1 Apr 2026

By Liz Kivi | Lawyers for Climate Action has made a formal complaint to the Ombudsman over the Government’s failure to release information about its controversial decision to build a LNG import terminal.

Low carbon
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EA entrenches 10kW export limit for residential solar

Wed 8 Apr 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | The Electricity Authority intends to require all electricity networks to offer at least a 10 kilowatt (kW) export capacity for residential rooftop and other small-scale distributed generation.

Mining
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NZ First targets regional share of mining royalties

30 Mar 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand First has proposed returning 50% of mining royalties to regional communities, saying that too much of the value from resource extraction is currently flowing to Wellington.

NZ ETS
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Tuvalu prioritises climate change in agreement with NZ

27 Mar 2026

By Liz Kivi | New Zealand has pledged an additional $20 million to climate resilience work in Tuvalu, more than doubling Aotearoa's aid to the tiny island nation in the current financial year.

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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Worst in a generation: Environmentalists slam fisheries reform bill

25 Mar 2026

Media release: Greenpeace | The Fisheries Amendment Bill, which will likely have its first reading in parliament this week, is being labelled the worst fisheries policy in a generation by environmental groups who are calling for it to be rejected to protect ocean health.

Oil
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Renewable build-out runs into grid and firming limits

Wed 8 Apr 2026

New Zealand's electricity market entered 2026 with renewable generation at record levels and a substantial build pipeline finally moving from paper to construction. The harder question is whether the wider system can absorb and firm that capacity fast enough.

Planetary boundaries
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Kiwis overly optimistic about state of environment

27 Feb 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New research suggests many New Zealanders believe the environment is in better shape than it really is, with public perceptions often out of step with scientific evidence.

Plastics
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‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics

24 Feb 2026

Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

Protest
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Activists occupy controversial gold drilling site

25 Mar 2026

By Max Frethey, Local Democracy Reporter | Opposition in Golden Bay to a controversial gold mine at Sams Creek has flared up over the weekend after several activists briefly occupied a drilling site.

Rare earth minerals
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China has a new competitor? Kazakhstan reveals huge rare Earth deposit that could power the next tech boom

25 Feb 2026

China’s grip on rare earths might finally see some competition, and the world is already taking notice.

Renewable energy
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Solar energy, cheap battery storage can meet 90% of India’s power demand at affordable costs: Ember report

Thu 9 Apr 2026

Battery storage is now cheap enough in India that solar power can meet 90% of the country’s power demand at lower lifetime costs than current average purchase rates in most states, a new study has found, a finding that could potentially point to a future buffer against global energy shocks.

Science
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Sci-tech prioritisation report is a joke that could cost NZ dearly, says NZ Association of Scientists

2 Apr 2026

Media release: New Zealand Association of Scientists | The Prioritisation Report released yesterday by the Prime Minister’s Science Innovation and Technology Council makes a poor case for further cuts and changes to our research system.

Tax
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Associate Professor Ru Hong

Carbon trading schemes cut more emissions than carbon taxes, according to global study

20 Mar 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Carbon trading schemes are more effective than carbon taxes at reducing emissions, cutting fossil fuel use, and accelerating the shift to renewable energy, a global study has found.

Technology
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AI’s arrival complicates Big Tech climate goals, and some worry it’s locking in more fossil fuels

2 Apr 2026

Six years ago, Google was confident that by 2030 it would power all operations with electricity generated from clean sources, including wind and solar power, and remove as much pollution as it produced. Today it calls those goals a “moonshot.” Microsoft says it’s still aiming to remove more carbon than it creates by 2030 but now describes the effort as “a marathon, not a sprint.”

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

19 Dec 2025

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

Transport
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Free fares call as fuel crisis impacts school attendance

Wed 8 Apr 2026

An open letter is urging the Government to make public transport free for all school children and subsidised for students under 25, as rising fuel costs begin to impact attendance and access to education across the country.

Waste
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Infrastructure plan calls for ‘predictable approach’ to electrifying economy

18 Feb 2026

Aotearoa’s first National Infrastructure Plan, introduced to Parliament yesterday, calls for "a predictable approach to electrifying the economy" as one of ten priorities for the next decade.

Water
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Dairy farmers' lack of climate action 'even bleaker' than water inaction – Upton

1 Apr 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Government projections for cutting agricultural emissions are being undermined by low farmer uptake, with the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment warning the country is relying on “heroic” assumptions to meet its methane targets.

Wildfires
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AI tool predicts wildfire danger faster than current systems

26 Mar 2026

Media release | A wildfire forecasting system powered by artificial intelligence could help detect dangerous fire conditions earlier and reduce the cost of wildfire response, according to new research from Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury.

Wind energy
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Fast-track approved project could deliver NZ’s largest wind farm

Tue 7 Apr 2026

Media release: New Zealand Government |Fast-track approval has been granted for New Zealand’s largest wind farm project.

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