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Catherine Leining

ETS ... we're hitting the target but missing the point

22 Feb 2016

Ministry for the Environment officials have been blunt about the Emissions Trading Scheme’s impact to date: “Research for this evaluation, and evidence from the interviews, found no sector other than forestry made emissions reductions over the Kyoto Protocol Commitment Period One (2008-12) that were directly caused by NZ ETS obligations.”

Market edges up

19 Feb 2016

Spot NZUs closed yesterday at $9.20. OMFinancial reports:

NZU prices pull back

18 Feb 2016

Spot NZUs closed yesterday at $9.15. OMFinancial reports:

Good volume traded

17 Feb 2016

Spot NZUs closed yesterday at $9.35. OMFinancial reports:

Liquidity will return when prices push up again

16 Feb 2016

Spot NZUs closed yesterday at $9.25. OMFinancial reports:

Planting rate drops by a million seedlings

15 Feb 2016

Latest Government figures show that planting rates of exotic forests last year were even lower than they were in 2014, when nurseries destroyed hundreds of thousands of seedlings because foresters weren’t planting.

NZUs continue to flow

12 Feb 2016

Spot NZUs closed last night at $9.27. The market is currently bid/offered at $9.20/$9.40. OMFinancial reports:

Chris Schilling

Why there's little cost in wiping ETS protections

9 Feb 2016

Scrapping the one-for-two and the $25 carbon price cap is likely to have little impact on the economy.

Slow day yesterday

3 Feb 2016

Spot NZUs closed last night at $9.52. OMFinancial reports:

Carbon questions lie in wait at Waitangi

2 Feb 2016

The Government is likely to face tough questioning at Waitangi this weekend over carbon prices.

Could a levy on air and shipping fuel sink emissions?

2 Feb 2016

Global agreements to aim for “well below” 2deg warming are nice enough, but now it’s time to develop some detailed policies to help us to get there.

Busy day for carbon yesterday

27 Jan 2016

Spot NZUs closed last night at $9.55. OMFinancial reports:

NZUs ease a little

22 Jan 2016

Spot NZUs closed last night at $9.57. OMFinancial reports:

NZUs down slightly

20 Jan 2016

Spot NZUs closed last night at $9.65. OMFinancial reports:

Carbon settled on quiet market

18 Dec 2015

The carbon market was quiet yesterday, with the market settling at $9.22. OMFinancial reports:

NZUs at $9.25

17 Dec 2015

Carbon consolidated yesterday, in what is seen as a pause before we move higher. OMFinancial reports:

NZUs touch $9.30

15 Dec 2015

Carbon continues to surprise to the upside; as tipped yesterday, the $8.95 offer was taken out and the $9.00 level was breached. OMFinancial reports:

COMMENT: Great, now all we need is a plan

15 Dec 2015

By editor ADELIA HALLETT.- Two months ago, Northern Employers and Manufacturers' Association chief Kim Campbell let fly on climate change.

Carbon prices lift 50% since beginning of year

15 Dec 2015

Carbon prices are closing the year 50 per cent up on where they started the 12 months.

Carbon pushing toward $9

14 Dec 2015

Spot NZUs closed at $8.90 on Friday. OMFinancial reports:

James Hansen

Hansen: Why global ‘carbon fee’ system will work

7 Dec 2015

Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen has called for a global “carbon fee” in which fossil fuels are taxed when they are produced or imported, rather than when they are consumed.

Corporate sustainability won’t solve climate change

7 Dec 2015

In the run-up to the COP21 international climate summit in Paris, business leaders worldwide have shown substantial support for action on greenhouse gases.

Carbon pushing $8.70

7 Dec 2015

Spot carbon finished the week at $8.55. OMFinancial reports:

Another day another high

3 Dec 2015

NZUs traded up to $8.50 yesterday on 15,000 units. OMFinancial reports:

Buy this market

2 Dec 2015

Spot NZUs traded up to $8.45 yesterday on 150,000 tonnes, as several buyers moved into the market. OMFinancial reports:

$8.50 here we come

1 Dec 2015

Spot NZUs continue to rally and are now charging at $8.50. OMFinancial reports:

Simon Watt

$400m cost attached to keeping 1:2 subsidy

30 Nov 2015

Retaining the one-for-two subsidy for emitters will cost taxpayers $400 million – and that’s just at today’s carbon prices, says climate law expert Simon Watt.

David Caygill

Treat agriculture like anyone else, says Caygill

30 Nov 2015

Agriculture should not be treated any differently from any other trade-exposed industry, says the man who led the previous Emissions Trading Scheme Review.

NZUs offered at $8.35

30 Nov 2015

Carbon continues to firm, with the market last trading at $8.35. OMFinancial reports:

Carbon closes at $8.20

27 Nov 2015

Carbon remained well bid yesterday, closing at $8.20. OMFinancial reports:

NZUs smash through $8 to a high of $8.20

26 Nov 2015

Yesterday’s offer for 143,000 NZUs at $8 was cleaned out early afternoon. OMFinancial reports:

NZUs continue their climb

25 Nov 2015

We traded small volume at $7.85 yesterday, and have cleared $7.90 today. OMFinancial reports:

$8 looking better by the day

24 Nov 2015

NZUs traded at $7.80 yesterday on good volume. OMFinancial reports:

Tim Groser

Groser hints at boost for carbon prices

23 Nov 2015

The Government has given the clearest signal yet that it intends to push carbon prices up as part of a package to meet the expected $30 billion cost of New Zealand’s 2030 emissions reduction target.

Smelter owner among worst carbon offenders

23 Nov 2015

Bluff aluminium smelter owner Rio Tinto – which threatened to quit New Zealand if a carbon price was introduced - is one of the world’s worst-prepared mining companies for carbon regulation, says a report out today.

NZUs $10 by 2016?

23 Nov 2015

NZUs traded at $7.70 on Friday. OMFInancial reports:

Volume available at $8

20 Nov 2015

Forty thousand NZUs traded between $7.70 and $7.75 yesterday, and we have opened this morning $7.60/7.85. OMFinancial reports:

NZUs steady

17 Nov 2015

NZUs held at $7.47 yesterday, on no trade. OMFinancial reports:

Tim Goser

Groser: I've given no advice on stranded assets

16 Nov 2015

Climate Change Minister Tim Groser says he has given no advice to Finance Minister Bill English on protecting people’s pensions against the risk of stranded assets in fossil fuel companies.

NZUs hold firm

16 Nov 2015

NZUs continue to hold firm at $7.50. OMFinancial reports:

Interest in call options grows

11 Nov 2015

NZUs firmed up yesterday, last trading at $7.25.OMFinancial reports:

Chris Karamea Insley

Get the waka back on course, says Maori expert

9 Nov 2015

Environmental protection, hard-hitting policies on climate change, and a carbon price floor should all be part of a drive to rebuild the economy, a Maori economic development consultant says.

Carbon on target for $8 by year-end

9 Nov 2015

NZUs closed at $7.25 on Friday, after hitting $7.30 earlier in the week on very good volumes. OMFinancial reports:

Lack of selling suggests a move to the upside

4 Nov 2015

NZUs closed at $7.20 yesterday, with small volume trading there. OMFinancial reports:

Big Aussies signal quit-carbon commitments

2 Nov 2015

Companies representing a significant chunk of the Australian stock exchange will this week announce new commitments to fighting climate change.

Dr Suzi Kerr

Higher carbon prices the key, says new book

2 Nov 2015

New Zealand needs higher carbon prices, says the author of a handbook on the Emissions Trading Scheme.

Trading closes at $7.10

2 Nov 2015

NZUs closed at $7.10 on Friday. OMFinancial reports:

NZUs settle $7.02

30 Oct 2015

NZUs finished with no trade yesterday. OMFinancial reports:

Late flurry pushes prices to $7.10

29 Oct 2015

NZUs settled $7.10 yesterday.

Market sits at $7

28 Oct 2015

NZUs settled $7.00 yesterday on reasonable volume. OMFInancial reports:

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Govt unveils National Adaptation Framework

Thu 16 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Minister of Climate Change Simon Watts has revealed the first actions under New Zealand’s National Adaptation Framework, which sets out the Government's approach to the rising risks from natural hazards such as floods and storms.

Agriculture
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All carrot, no stick for farmers on methane

Fri 17 Oct 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | COMMENT: The abandonment of methane emissions pricing and the adoption of a weaker target is effectively the last nail in the coffin of the historic cross-parliamentary consensus embedded in the Zero Carbon Act 2019.

Airlines
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NZ needs to be part of a regional SAF strategy: Z, Air NZ

9 Sep 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | New Zealand needs to be part of a regional strategic approach to sourcing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), with domestic production less the aim than ensuring access to the fuel from one of a number of strategically positioned bio-refineries around the world.

Aviation
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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.

Biodiversity
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NZ not 'holding the line' on wilding pine management – experts

Wed 15 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand is no longer “holding the line” against invasive threats, with the country’s scale, remoteness and rugged terrain making control costly and complex, one expert has said ahead of this week's Wilding Pines Conference.

Biofuels
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Researchers say sealing old oil wells with bio-oil from crop waste is a dual carbon-removal solution

19 Sep 2025

A new analysis shows that oil made from corn husks, wood chips, and other waste could plug greenhouse gas-belching abandoned oil wells while sequestering carbon for about $152 per ton.

Carbon Credits
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Broker predicts all this year’s carbon auctions will fail

10 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | Marex New Zealand is forecasting that the government will sell no ‘pollution permits’ at the NZU auctions this year, with a significant gap continuing between secondary market prices and this year’s $68 auction floor price.

Carbon News world
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UN agency says CO2 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilisation and “turbo-charging” the Earth’s climate and causing more extreme weather.

Coal
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The Government will decide by December whether to go ahead with an LNG import facility.

Electricity to remain in ETS

1 Oct 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | The Government has rejected Frontier Economics' recommendation that electricity should be removed from the Emissions Trading Scheme.

Comment
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The merchants of doubt are back

3 Sep 2025

OPINION: If you don’t follow climate policy closely, you might not know that the Trump administration is launching an effort to overturn one of the most fundamental pillars of American climate policy.

Construction
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Electric Arc Furnace in action at North Star BlueScope

Milestone for NZ Steel electrification

10 Sep 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | NZ Steel has passed an installation milestone for its new electric arc furnace, which will reduce emissions from the Glenbrook steel mill site by as much as one megatonne (1Mt) a year.

COP
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An Indigenous activist during demonstrations at the COP28 opening in Dubai, 2023.

UN limits staff at COP30 climate summit over accommodation concerns

19 Sep 2025

High hotel prices for Brazil's COP30 climate summit in November have prompted the United Nations to urge its staff to limit attendance, while government delegations are still scrambling to find rooms within their budgets.

Energy
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Unlocking the national potential of flexible energy use through residential appliances – EECA calling for submissions

Thu 16 Oct 2025

Media release | EECA is asking for feedback from the energy sector on a newly published green paper about unlocking the potential of demand flexibility through end-use products, such as appliances, used in New Zealand homes.

Extinction
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Nest of Asian (paper) wasp

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.

Extreme weather
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Difficult trade-offs ahead for climate adaptation

Fri 17 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | While climate impacts are already here, bringing the urgent need to accelerate effective adaptation now, the Government's newly minted adaptation framework still leaves important questions unanswered about who will pay.

Fishing
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NZ marine heatwaves could double in intensity under high-emissions pathway

Thu 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.

Forestry
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World falling far behind deforestation goals with farms and fires driving loss, report says

Wed 15 Oct 2025

The report said the world permanently lost 8.1 million hectares (20 million acres) of forest, an area about the size of England, in 2024 alone.

Gas
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‘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.

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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Nicholas Stern

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Wed 15 Oct 2025

Investment in climate action is the economic growth story of the 21st century, while growth fuelled by fossil fuels is futile because the damage it causes ends in self-destruction, the economist Nicholas Stern has said.

Greenhouse Effect
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Climate Change Minister Simon Watts (front right) alongside Agriculture Minister Todd McLay announcing the controversial new methane target on Sunday.

Where’s Watts? Climate Minister no-show at climate conference

Thu 16 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | Opposition parties have slammed the Climate Change Minister’s failure to front up to a major international conference in Christchurch, saying it shows that climate adaptation is a low priority for the National Party.

Greenwashing
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Eraring power station is a black coal-fired power station on the shores of Lake Macquarie, southeast of Newcastle, NSW

Climate credibility gap widening for Aussie firms

1 Oct 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Australian public companies’ climate change commitments are in retreat, reflecting difficulty in achieving stated targets and increased fossil use, but not because of any pressure to make less effort, according to a study of major companies’ ESG reporting.

Hydro power
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Coal imports up 650%

12 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams and Liz Kivi | Coal imports are up 650% as generators stockpile the most polluting fossil fuel ahead of next winter.

Hydrogen
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Hiringa chief executive Andrew Clennett

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.

Insurance
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Dr Sasha Maher (University of Auckland, Business School)

Study warns climate leadership falling short in NZ

1 Oct 2025

Media release - Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland | Research suggests New Zealand’s climate leadership is falling short, with current adaptation efforts focused on property and cost-cutting rather than protecting communities.

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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Judge dismisses suit by young climate activists against Trump’s pro-fossil fuel policies

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Plaintiffs had ‘overwhelming evidence’ of climate crisis but a court injunction would be ‘unworkable’, ruling says.

Low carbon
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Lord Adair Turner

'Non-negotiable' – EU carbon pricing to hit Kiwi exporters, expert warns

11 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | High carbon exports will inevitably face a high carbon tax at the EU border, possibly in the next five years, and high methane agricultural products might not be exempt, an international expert told a local audience yesterday.

Mining
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naushad mohamed via Unsplash

Deep sea mining threatens sharks, rays and ghost sharks

6 Oct 2025

Mining the world’s deep seas for metals will likely threaten many species of sharks, rays and chimaeras (ghost sharks), according to researchers.

NZ ETS
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Govt promises ‘earlier action’ in response to Commission’s warning climate targets at risk

Fri 17 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government says it will “explore opportunities for earlier action” ahead of the third Emissions Reduction Plan, and has committed to looking at ways to stop the system of free carbon credits for industrial polluters from disincentivising industrial decarbonisation.

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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Dr Maina Talia, Tuvalu’s Minister for Climate Change, speaking at the Adaptation Futures 2025 Conference in Christchurch on Monday.

‘Weird and sad’ – Tuvalu Climate Minister condemns NZ halving methane target

Wed 15 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | Dr Maina Talia, Tuvalu’s Minister for Home Affairs, Climate Change, and Environment, says he’s surprised at New Zealand’s decision to weaken its target for reducing methane emissions – and is planning to take up the issue with his counterpart Climate Minister Simon Watts this week.

Paris Agreement
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NZ’s biggest ever climate meeting kicks off

Tue 14 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | The world's largest climate adaptation conference kicked off in Christchurch yesterday, with nearly 2000 attendees expected, making it potentially the biggest international climate meeting Aotearoa New Zealand will ever host.

Planetary boundaries
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Bottom trawling a triple threat to marine environments - new report

9 Oct 2025

Media release | Greenpeace is calling for urgent action to restrict bottom trawling after a new government report highlights the compounding effects this destructive fishing method has on climate change, habitat degradation and biodiversity loss.

Plastics
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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.

Politics
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Councils need funding tools to address climate challenges – LGNZ

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Media release | Local Government New Zealand is welcoming the Government’s new National Adaptation Framework, while cautioning that councils will struggle to meet its new expectations without additional funding tools.

Protest
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Students repeat request for Victoria University to divest from fossil fuel investments

24 Sep 2025

Media release | A group of students campaigning for climate action at Victoria University of Wellington have dropped a banner protesting against the university’s lack of action on its 2014 commitment to divest from fossil fuels.

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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Record global renewable energy growth remains short of climate target, report says

Thu 16 Oct 2025

A new report finds that a record amount of global renewable energy capacity was added last year, but that still leaves countries “short of targets towards meeting a UN climate goal to triple capacity by 2030”.

Tax
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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.

Technology
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Climate scientists and republican lawyers are taking aim at Big Tech’s emissions

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Technology companies have long been one of the biggest investors in clean energy, but new accounting rules could upend that.

The House
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Resources Minister Shane Jones

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.

Transport
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For Australia to get moving on electric vehicles, we must ban petrol and diesel cars by 2035

Fri 17 Oct 2025

COMMENT: If nothing is done, transport is projected to be Australia’s largest emissions source by 2030.

Waste
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The Repair Cafe opens on 17 October.

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.

Water
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Farmers face heightened solvency risks as climate changes: research

10 Oct 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Increasingly volatile weather patterns, higher insurance costs driven by climate change risk and global financial volatility represent risks to New Zealand farmers’ capacity to service debt and remain solvent, according to new research by Christchurch-based research firm Kōmanawa Solutions.

Wildfires
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‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate

24 Sep 2025

The president used a large chunk of his hour-long speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies.

Wind energy
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Trump administration moves to revoke permit for Massachusetts offshore wind project

24 Sep 2025

The Trump administration has moved to block a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, its latest effort to hobble an industry and technology that President Donald Trump has attacked as “ugly” and unreliable compared to fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.

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