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Govt: Transport spending must cut emissions

7 Apr 2020

Decisions about transport infrastructure must line up with the Paris Agreement – and that means people living and working in the same area and almost zero emissions from vehicles, the Government says.

James Shaw

ETS reform still a top job, says minister

31 Mar 2020

Reforming the Emissions Trading Scheme remains a priority for the Government, despite disruption caused by the covid-19 pandemic, says climate minister James Shaw.

Emission trading changes will have to wait

26 Mar 2020

Changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme are in lockdown along with the rest of the country.

OPINION: Science makes a comeback

26 Mar 2020

By JIM SALINGER | This has been a strange period and I have been reflecting on the uptake of scientific facts and advice with the covid-19 pandemic.

Carbon markets will keep the doors open

25 Mar 2020

New Zealand’s carbon markets will continue trading through the covid-19 pandemic shutdown.

MPs put 1.5 million reasons to stop wasting food

20 Mar 2020

New Zealand could cut 1.5 million tonnes from its annual greenhouse gas emissions if it stopped wasting food, MPs say.

Carbon prices suffer as global economy sweats

19 Mar 2020

The global economic downturn brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic is hitting carbon prices.

Customers made the call, says new carbon operator

18 Mar 2020

The operator of a new carbon-trading platform says it is responding to demand from its customers.

Quintin Tahau

Transpower moves into carbon trading

17 Mar 2020

Transpower is moving into the carbon-trading business.

Matt Whineray

Super fund dumps big emitters - and fills pockets

16 Mar 2020

New Zealand’s national superannuation fund is hundreds of millions of dollars off because it has shed high-carbon investments, says chief executive Matt Whineray.

ClimCom opens doors to carbon-budget ideas

16 Mar 2020

Energy, transport, farming and forestry businesses are the first sectors to put their vision of a carbon-neutral New Zealand to the body charged with developing the country’s carbon budgets.

Sir Peter Gluckman

Gluckman group to tackle the hard stuff

4 Mar 2020

A think-tank being launched in Auckland today could give New Zealand – and the world – the tools it needs to make the hard decisions about climate change, says founder Professor Sir Peter Gluckman.

Stretched officials making mistakes, say emitters

4 Mar 2020

Heavy industry is calling for a slowing of the Government’s climate programme in the face of what it says are dangerous errors in officials’ advice.

NZ risks missing biofuels chance, says industry

25 Feb 2020

New Zealand risks missing the chance to use biofuels to develop fuel independence and avoid buying costly international carbon credits, officials are being told.

Lack of global market hurts offsets investment

13 Feb 2020

The lack of a global carbon-trading market is holding back investment in offsets, a new report says.

Way now clear for wood, say biomass champions

29 Jan 2020

The Government’s latest move towards getting rid of coal-fired boilers in hospitals and schools shows growing market confidence in the country’s biomass supply, the Bionergy Association says.

Buyers must be helped into EVs, says report

29 Jan 2020

The price of electric vehicles must be subsidised if New Zealand is to meet its commitment to the Paris Agreement, a new report says.

EDITORIAL: It's time to scare the horses

28 Jan 2020

By publisher ADELIA HALLETT | It’s 2020 – election year in New Zealand and the year global greenhouse gas emissions should peak if we’re to have a reasonable shot at keeping warming to 1.5deg.

Vegetarianism in schools is entirely appropriate

21 Jan 2020

MEDIA RELEASE NZ VEGETARIAN SOCIETY: The NZ Vegetarian Society has responded to claims that a new climate change resource which encourages students to eat less meat and dairy should be removed from schools.

Westpac NZ and Contact Energy agree first sustainability-linked loan

16 Jan 2020

MEDIA RELEASE WESTPAC NZ & CONTACT ENERGY: Westpac NZ and Contact Energy have entered into a $50 million, four-year sustainability-linked loan facility, the first such loan issued by Westpac NZ and one of the first of its kind in New Zealand.

Down the track, our emissions rate will fall

19 Dec 2019

New Zealand’s projected greenhouse gas emissions are falling.

Dr Rod Carr

Climate commission gets its body of experts

17 Dec 2019

The names of the experts who will make up the Climate Change Commission have been announced.

EDITORIAL: Two to remember

13 Dec 2019

By publisher ADELIA HALLETT | This year will be remembered for two things – the passing of the zero-carbon act and the year in which our children got angry with us over climate change.

NZ 'low' performer, says climate action watchdog

12 Dec 2019

Failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions has seen New Zealand ranked 37th and in the “low” category in an international assessment of performance on climate change.

MADRID MESSAGE: Our cuts will take hard work

11 Dec 2019

New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions will decrease steadily to 2030 but will still be well above 1990 levels, officials have told international climate talks in Madrid.

NZ might sit with 2030 emissions' cuts target

10 Dec 2019

New Zealand might not increase its 2030 emissions reduction target next year.

Why lower emissions mean better business

6 Dec 2019

Companies with high levels of greenhouse gas emissions are worth less than low-emitting companies, says financial analysis and advisory firm Forsyth Barr.

Jump to it, Jacinda, says global carbon watchdog

5 Dec 2019

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is under international pressure to increase New Zealand’s 2030 emissions reduction target in line with the Paris Agreement.

Cut hydrogen red tape, urges business sector

4 Dec 2019

Businesses say a hydrogen-export industry drastically cutting emissions from fossil fuels could be stymied by red tape and a failure to recognise the value of “blue” hydrogen.

Climate-impact reporting to be mandatory

4 Dec 2019

The Government is to assess the climate implications of every major decision it makes.

Govt eyes bid limits for carbon credit auctions

15 Nov 2019

The Government is looking at setting a maximum bid lot to stop a handful of entities getting control of the New Zealand carbon market.

Vernon Tava

New party backs emissions pricing

11 Nov 2019

A new environment-based political party supports emissions pricing, wants the Climate Change Commission to set the methane reduction target, and says it would be reluctant to get rid of a ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration.

Simon Upton

Upton wants more bite for environment reporting

8 Nov 2019

The Government should have to at least respond to official reports on the state of New Zealand’s environment and climate, says the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.

David Seymour

MPs rubbish call on overseas emissions

7 Nov 2019

Parliament has roundly rejected an attempt to get overseas emission reductions given the same weight as New Zealand projects under new climate legislation.

Kiwi company pushes one-click carbon offsetting

5 Nov 2019

CarbonClick plans to be as much of a disrupter for carbon offsetting as Xero has been for accounting.

Directors learn climate denial no legal defence

31 Oct 2019

Denying humans are changing the climate will be no defence for directors facing lawsuits for failing to deal with carbon risk, businesses are being told.

Dr Rod Carr

Banking academic to head climate commission

8 Oct 2019

Former Reserve Bank chair Dr Rod Carr will head the Climate Change Commission.

Local businesses given emissions know-how

19 Sep 2019

The Government has released new advice for local businesses wanting to voluntarily offset their emissions.

Go-it-alone farmers up pressure on politicians

16 Sep 2019

The farming industry is upping pressure on the Government for its own emissions-pricing regime.

Cabinet refuses to show ETS farming papers

9 Sep 2019

The Government is refusing to release six documents relating to farming and the Emissions Trading Scheme.

Farmland loss more like 10%, says ministry

23 Aug 2019

Implementing the zero-carbon bill could see about 10 per cent of current farmland converted to forests, the Ministry for the Environment says.

Matt Walsh

Carbon farmer questions forestry land facts

22 Aug 2019

The country’s largest carbon-farming company says there is more marginal land available for forestry than officials are telling the Government.

Government said no to official methane advice

15 Aug 2019

The Government went beyond officials’ advice in proposing cuts in methane emissions of up to 47 per cent, briefing papers show.

Maori could have environment case, says expert

6 Aug 2019

Maori could legitimately take the Crown to the Waitangi Tribunal if councils around the country don’t work with them on climate change, a leading environmental law expert says.

Government rules out carbon market agency

5 Aug 2019

The Government says it will not set up a new agency to set the volume of carbon credits in the market.

Paris means we must halve many emissions

30 Jul 2019

New Zealand needs to more than halve emissions of most gases over the coming decade if it is to meet its Paris pledge, the Government says.

Climate Change Commission deadline looms

24 Jul 2019

Nominations for members of the proposed Climate Change Commission close on Sunday.

Officials examine future of dodgy Russian credits

19 Jul 2019

Officials are calculating the number of dodgy carbon credits New Zealand used in meeting its emissions reduction target, raising the prospect that the country might yet make good on its actions.

Government sticks with 100% renewables plan

16 Jul 2019

The Government is pushing ahead with plans to make New Zealand’s electricity generation 100 per cent renewable, despite advice from the Interim Climate Change Committee that it would be better to focus on electrifying the transport and industrial heat sectors.

Lord Deben

UK likes our way with international credits

13 Jun 2019

Britain is following New Zealand's lead in saying it will probably use international carbon markets in its drive to carbon neutrality - despite the advice of its own experts.

Adaptation
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Local government and climate minister Simon Watts (left) and transport minister Chris Bishop at the Local Government NZ conference this week

Local govt bill 'completely misses the point,' passes first reading

Today 11:00am

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The government’s bill making changes to the Local Government Act to "refocus" councils on their core functions passed its first reading in Parliament last night, with critics saying it will set back climate resilience.

Agriculture
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Expert rejects farmers call to ditch green investment framework

Thu 17 Jul 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Scrapping a proposed 'green' finance taxonomy before work on it is even finished would risk New Zealand being left behind in the transition to more sustainable systems, according to an expert.

Airlines
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NZ Post drops science-based climate target

8 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | NZ Post has dropped its science-based emissions reduction target of 42% by 2030 with no plans to replace it.

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

Today 11:00am

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

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

11 Jul 2025

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

Biofuels
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Sustainability claims questioned as renewable diesel surges

14 May 2025

Critics are sceptical about industry claims of renewable diesel life-cycle greenhouse gas emission cuts and warn renewable diesel carbon releases will surge if sourcing is scaled up, triggering tropical deforestation as producers convert forests to energy crops, such as oil palm and soy.

Carbon Credits
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon greets schoolchildren

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

Thu 17 Jul 2025

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

Carbon News world
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EU seeks 'fair competition' with China on green energy

Today 11:00am

The European Union is seeking "fair competition" with China and not a race to the bottom in wages and environmental standards, the bloc's vice president for the clean transition told AFP in Beijing on Monday.

Carbon prices
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Bearish sentiment lingers for carbon market

11 Jul 2025

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

Coal
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EU wants to see China take more ambitious climate action

Tue 15 Jul 2025

The world needs China to show more leadership on climate action, highlighting the importance of cutting planet-heating emissions and reducing the Chinese economy's reliance on coal.

Comment
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NZ voluntary carbon market’s sad state

Mon 14 Jul 2025

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

Construction
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Common low-grade clay strengthens low-carbon concrete

5 Jun 2025

Media release | Engineers at RMIT University have converted low-grade clay into a high-performance cement supplement, opening a potential new market in sustainable construction materials.

COP
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Cuts to climate finance put exports in jeopardy: Lawyers

23 May 2025

By Liz Kivi | The government has halved international climate finance, a move aid organisations describe as “devastating,” and which lawyers say could put our Paris Agreement commitments and export market access at risk.

Emissions trading
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Carbon price grinds higher - where to from now?

30 Jun 2025

By Liz Kivi | The carbon price has continued to grind slowly higher since this month’s failed auction, with prices at their highest since March, although still languishing well below this year’s auction floor price.

Energy
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Importing LNG is feasible, but is it plausible?

Today 11:00am

Importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a form of energy supply insurance is technically feasible, but an industry-commissioned report raises questions about whether it is financially plausible.

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

9 Jul 2025

Media release - Deep Sea Conservation Coalition | New data reveals that New Zealand’s main orange roughy fishery, accounting for half of the country’s total catch, is on the brink of collapse, with one model showing it may have reached that point already, and the government’s considering closing it.

Extreme weather
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Media round-up

Today 11:00am

In our round-up of the latest climate coverage in local media: with parts of the country still reeling from flooding exacerbated by climate change, debate heats up over who will pay for managed retreat from at-risk areas.

Fishing
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Latest trawl bycatch numbers 'a grim wake-up call'

24 Jun 2025

Media release – Greenpeace | The latest fisheries bycatch data paints a grim picture, with trawlers hauling up thousands of kilograms of coral and killing hundreds of fur seals and seabirds over a 12 month period.

Forestry
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Illegal loggers profit from Brazil’s carbon credit projects

Thu 17 Jul 2025

How a system designed to protect the world’s biggest rainforest is funding businesses with a track record of illegal deforestation.

Gas
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Megan Woods

Climate backtracking could impact trade relationships: Labour

9 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | Labour Party Energy spokesperson Megan Woods says the government needs to be upfront about how its energy policies will impact trade relationships, following revelations New Zealand was warned by other governments that backtracking on climate policies jeopardised its membership of an international alliance.

Geothermal
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Energy Minister Simon Watts addressing the CEP conference in Auckland this week

Watts talks big on energy reform, but barriers persist

29 May 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Energy and Climate Change minister Simon Watts says the government is doubling down on efforts to boost renewable energy generation, streamline regulation, and drive private sector investment as New Zealand faces mounting energy security and affordability challenges.

Green finance
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Farmers slam proposed guidelines for sustainable finance

Wed 16 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | Federated Farmers is calling on the government to scrap its proposed framework for ‘green’ finance, saying it is ideologically driven, unworkable, and risks harming rural communities.

Greenhouse Effect
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Paul Kabai and Pabai Pabai on the boardwalk in Boigu.

Does Aussie court ruling hold lessons for NZ?

Thu 17 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | A recent Australian court ruling should serve as a warning to New Zealand's decision-makers on how important it is to align climate targets and climate policies with the best available science, according to a climate litigation expert.

Hydro power
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Methanex closure comes early this year

14 May 2025

The almost-now-annual closure of Methanex has come earlier this year, giving more confidence that the electricity system will get through the winter without a fuel shortfall.

Hydrogen
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Electric firebricks: decarbonising high-temperature industrial heat

13 Jun 2025

By Ian Mason | A new technology could offer a more cost-effective solution than hydrogen to decarbonise one ‘hard-to-abate’ sector of New Zealand’s economy, as well as having ample potential for demand response as the electricity grid becomes more renewable.

Insurance
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‘Significant gaps’ in proposed approach to climate adaptation

10 Jul 2025

A new report into climate adaptation doesn’t suggest how development in high-risk areas should be avoided - an issue that needs urgent action with thousands of homes still being built in hazardous areas, according to the Environmental Defence Society.

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

Today 11:00am

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

Low carbon
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Clear-sighted view to trade-offs crucial to reimagining our relationship with the land

7 Jul 2025

By Nick Swallow | COMMENT: New Zealand could see a 70% drop in the value of dairy land if we pursue our emissions targets for agriculture, according to a new report.

Mining
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Rio Tinto urges Albanese govt to reimpose carbon tax, boost green energy subsidies

Thu 17 Jul 2025

The mining giant has used it’s submission to the Productivity Commission ahead of the Albanese government’s economic roundtable to lobby for the re-imposition of a carbon pricing scheme and bolstered green energy subsidies.

NZ ETS
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NZ Forest Owners Association CEO Dr Elizabeth Heeg presented to the environment select committee.

Foresters seek time; end to using ETS as a land use tool

Wed 16 Jul 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Production and carbon forestry owners have begged the environment select committee to at least give the sector more time to come up with workable rules for legislation intended to cap forest planting on farmland.

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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Millions of tons of tiny plastic particles are polluting the ocean, study finds

Tue 15 Jul 2025

At least 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics are estimated to be floating in the North Atlantic Ocean, weighing more than all wild land mammals combined.

Paris Agreement
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Riwaka Sandy Bay Road during recent flooding

'Back-to-basics' approach for councils ignores climate risk

11 Jul 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | While ACT is standing local government candidates to oppose councils' attempts to manage emissions and ministers are calling for local authorities to 'get back to basics' - or even suggesting scrapping regional councils altogether - one expert says this narrative is putting communities at risk in the face of climate change.

Planetary boundaries
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Former Climate Commission Chair Dr Rod Carr

Markets aren't going to save us – Carr

9 Jul 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Consumerism is reaching its ecological and economic limits, and only systemic change - not market tweaks - can steer us away from climate catastrophe, according to former Climate Change Commission chair Rod Carr.

Plastics
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The microplastics found on a Waikato beach

Microplastics found in sand on dozens of NZ beaches

4 Jun 2025

Scientists have extracted microplastics from the sand of 22 beaches from the Far North to Banks Peninsula.

Policy development
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Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones

Feedback sought on national fuel security plan

Wed 16 Jul 2025

Media release - Beehive: The Coalition Government is seeking feedback on a draft Fuel Security Plan that provides a long-term strategy to ensure New Zealanders have reliable access to fuel in times of domestic and global disruption, Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones says.

Protest
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UK: Thousands lobby MPs to demand climate action

10 Jul 2025

More than 5,000 people from across the UK arrived in Westminster on Wednesday to meet their MPs and demand urgent climate action to protect their communities.

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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Germany's wind power expansion picks up, but targets still missed, says lobby

Today 11:00am

Germany's onshore wind power sector recorded its strongest half-year since 2017, but the expansion still falls short of the legally mandated targets, the BWE wind power lobby said on Tuesday.

Science
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Antarctica Scholarships 2025: Ocean detectives

Thu 17 Jul 2025

Media release – Antarctica New Zealand | Antarctica’s Southern Ocean is full of unanswered questions, and this year’s Antarctica New Zealand scholarship recipients are on a mission to help solve them.

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

Thu 17 Jul 2025

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

Technology
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Basis co-founders Danny Purcell and Julyan Collett

Kiwi ‘smart panel’ startup aiming to reduce energy bills and emissions

4 Jul 2025

NZ start-up Basis this week launched an ‘intelligent’ panel to replace traditional electrical switchboards in homes, which it says can save the average home $1,200 NZD annually on bills and lead to lower emissions.

The House
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United Nations carbon market rules agreed but concerns remain

25 Nov 2024

New carbon market rules agreed at the fractious UN climate summit will be a relief to New Zealand and Singapore, who were leading the negotiations, but concerns about greenwashing and disadvantaging nature-based solutions remain.

Transport
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Fast, sustained phase-out of fossil fuels: best-performing countries in coal and transport sectors

10 Jul 2025

By Robert McLachlan | It’s true that climate change is getting worse – it will continue to get worse until emissions fall to near zero. But is action on phasing out fossil fuels really stalling?

United Nations
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Can you trust climate information? How and why powerful players are misleading the public

11 Jul 2025

The climate crisis is more urgent than ever, so why is there a disconnect between stated policies and actual practices?

Waste
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Waste Levy risks becoming ‘slush fund’ under proposed changes – Commissioner

5 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Proposed changes to New Zealand's waste legislation risk undermining public trust in the waste levy scheme, according to Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton.

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

11 Jul 2025

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

Wildfires
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UN University report warns against carbon credits from REDD, tree planting, and improved forest management

13 Jun 2025

But the report stops short of recommending banning the trade in carbon temporarily stored in trees.

Wind energy
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For the first time, China invests more in wind and solar than coal overseas

29 May 2025

China’s Belt and Road Initiative, long derided for its heavy carbon footprint, was dominated by wind and solar power projects for the first time from 2022 to 2023, according to a new analysis. But coal plants financed in earlier years are still coming online.

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