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Everyone was welcome to the climate change mud fight

A slippery sort of "come out of the closet day" of climate change politics

3 Apr 2008

While the select committee opened up its hearings on the climate change bill at Parliament yesterday, senior Ministers launched a fusillade of statements questioning National’s position on climate change, including trying to get some “slippery” mud to stick to John Key.

Consultation on climate change measures continues

3 Apr 2008

Climate Change Minister David Parker has welcomed the start of the next round of public engagement on the Labour-led government's important climate change policy of emissions trading.

Professor reviewing forestry offset scheme proposal

3 Apr 2008

The Flexible Land Use Alliance has appointed Professor Lewis Evans to review a draft report by the University of Waikato and Covec on proposed changes to the forestry components of the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill, including the introduction of a Forestry Offset Scheme.

No timeframe on exploiting southern lignite fields

2 Apr 2008

Solid Energy (SE) is going to use its huge Otago-Southland lignite coal resource eventually – it’s just not sure when, according to the state-owned collier’s chairman, John Palmer.

Bangkok talks warned little time remains for climate change solution

2 Apr 2008

UN Climate Change Talks began Monday in Bangkok with warnings that little time remains for international community to negotiate 2009 Copenhagen agreement.

Kevin Rudd ... trans-tasman dialogue - in person

Clark, Rudd to jointly address Auckland climate change conference

2 Apr 2008

Both Helen Clark and Kevin Rudd are to address a major trans-Tasman climate change business conference to be held in Auckland.

Tehcnical insolvency for Maori forest landownbers?

Insolvency threatens Maori forest owners

1 Apr 2008

Some Maori owners of pre-1990 forest land are going to become technically insolvent the day the Government’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) comes into effect, according to the secretary of a Maori incorporation.

John Palmer ... no difficulty in chairing carbon-challenged coal and airline busineses

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ‘Conflicts? What conflicts?’ – John Palmer

1 Apr 2008

No conflicts or contradictions over the pending emissions trading scheme (ETS) arise from John Palmer’s chairmanship of both state-owned collier Solid Energy (SE) and mostly-state-owned airline Air New Zealand, he told Carbon News yesterday.

No need for NZ to drag feet on biofuels

1 Apr 2008

New Zealand shouldn’t delay bringing in biofuel sales obligations and miss out on cutting greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the use of fossil fuels says a major potential investor.

Family Party to oppose carbon tax

1 Apr 2008

Family Party leader Richard Lewis says the party is unconvinced that carbon based taxes are justified or necessary.

Bio fuel bill backing going up in smoke?

Skids under government’s bio-fuels mandate

31 Mar 2008

It looks increasingly likely that the Labour-led Government’s mandate for petrol and diesel to contain 3.4% of bio-ingredients from July 1 will be shelved – possibly for as long as it takes to develop second-generation bio-fuels.

Roger Kerr .. policy being left to Ministerial discretion

Roger Kerr: Saving the Planet Must Not Cost the Earth

31 Mar 2008

By Roger Kerr, Business Roundtable Shortly a select committee of parliament will begin hearings on the bill to implement an emissions trading scheme (ETS).

Forum explores low-carbon futures for local government

31 Mar 2008

“Innovative and forward-thinking councils committed to working on climate change will come together to discuss low-carbon futures for local government at the Communities for Climate Protection®- New Zealand 2008 Forum,” said Diana Shand, National Programme Manager for ICLEI’s Communities for Climate Protection - New Zealand (CCP-NZ) Programme.

Posnett defends bio-fuels' New Zealand role

28 Mar 2008

“A piece of legislation” is all that’s required to give bio-fuels a sustainable role in the New Zealand transport fuel mix, according to Dickon Posnett, the chairman of the newly-formed New Zealand Bio-fuels Manufacturers’ Association (BMA).

Greenpeace protesters unfurl a banner on the Hellenic Sea bulk carrier.. protests have cost Solid Energy tens of millions

Environmental protests knock millions off Solid Energy's bottom line

26 Mar 2008

In a prescient remark, given Greenpeace’s blockage of the bulk coal carrier Hellenic Sea in Lyttelton a few hours later, Solid Energy chairman John Palmer has warned that customer uncertainty over the ETS is “raising the risk profile for the long-term security of Solid Energy’s domestic coal supply business.”

Vested interest snakes yet to appear on Australia's ETS

Three pillars to Wong’s emissions policy

26 Mar 2008

The three pillars of reducing emissions, adapting to unavoidable climate change and helping shape a global solution are at the heart of Australia’s greenhouse gas (GHG) policies, Australian Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has told Carbon News.

The petrol pump .. out on is own after the Australian ETS is settled?

Now it’s petrol giving the Aussies cold feet

26 Mar 2008

Never mind that the participation of agriculture and forestry in the Australian emissions trading scheme (ETS) looks like being left to the respective industries to decide, land transport may be allowed off the hook too.

Greenpeace activists board the coal bulk carrier Hellenic Sea and unfurl a protest banner

Greenpeace occupies coal ship; calls for real action on climate change

26 Mar 2008

Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior has blocked a shipment of export coal from leaving the Port of Lyttelton.

Happy holliday makers about to have their carbon footprints measured

Ministry RFP reveals plan to measure tourism's GHG footprint

25 Mar 2008

New Zealand's $18.6 billion a year tourism sector is about to have its carbon footprint measured.

FULL VERSION: Discussion paper on the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme

25 Mar 2008

The Garnaut Climate Change Review has released its ETS discussion paper, which looks at which industries should be included in Australia's ETS, and issues like recycling revenue from the sale of emission permits.

Measure your own emissions .. no set rules

Self-assessment the Kiwi ETS maxim

20 Mar 2008

A CARBON NEWS INQUIRY SERIES - By Hugh de Lacy: Don’t wait around for the Government to impose overseas standards on carbon assessment and verification: self-assessment is the core theme in the New Zealand emissions trading scheme (ETS), according to Dave Brash, general manager of the Treasury’s Emissions Trading Group.

.. no flip flops on the path to the most significant" reform since the '80s?

Official timetable for introducing Australia's ETS

20 Mar 2008

Here is the official timetable for developing and introducing Australia's greenhouse gas cap and trade scheme.

The full bill: Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference)

20 Mar 2008

As a service to subscribers, Carbon News provides a full copy of the Climate Change (emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill

Hansard debate record on the first reading of the NZ ETS bill

20 Mar 2008

As a service to subscribers, the Hansard report on the introduction of the bill proposing to introduce emissions trading in new Zealand, and ban new non-baseload thermal generation for 10 years can be viewed here (http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Debates/Debates/d/f/2/48HansD_20071212_00000817-Climate-Change-Emissions-Trading-and-Renewable.htm)

Cullen .. sharemarket losses would pale against unmitigated climate change

No swerving from ETS – Cullen

19 Mar 2008

Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen's office says he is adamant the global economic downturn will not deflect the Government from its decision to introduce an emissions trading scheme (ETS) this year.

British Columbia Finance Minister Carole Taylor.. personal carbon tax credits .. she hopes will be spent on lowering home emissions

Could Clark deliver a personal climate change tax credit?

19 Mar 2008

Could the Clark Government come up with a one-off cash Climate Action Dividend in this year’s Budget, to offset higher costs people will face to pay for its climate change measures?

Jim Anderton.. Kyoto deforestation down from forecast 50,000ha to 12,000

Anderton says survey shows deforestation reducing

19 Mar 2008

The latest survey of deforestation intentions shows that forest owners intend to dramatically reduce deforestation as a result of the proposed emissions trading scheme, Forestry Minister Jim Anderton said yesterday.

Penny Wong .. may exclude forestry and agriculture and complicate the transtasman ETS link

Forestry, agriculture may not be in Aussie ETS

18 Mar 2008

Agriculture and forestry may be dumped in the too-hard basket by new Labor Government Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, who yesterday announced a timetable for Australia to launch an emissions trading scheme (ETS).

Registry launches April

TZ1 trading platform ready, registry launches April

18 Mar 2008

NZX carbon trading subsidiary chief executive Mark Franklin says TZ1’s market platform is ready to operate.

John Key.. balance environmental and economic interests in ETS design

Key backs ETS – with balance

18 Mar 2008

Opposition Leader John Key says his party supports the proposed New Zealand emissions trading system, describing it as “a good model, market-based, it works”. He also talked of further reforming the planning laws so renewable energy projects could proceed.

FRANKLIN SPECIAL INTERVIEW: US well down the climate track

18 Mar 2008

Climate change hold-out the United States might not rush to follow Australia into ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, but behind the scenes it’s moving quickly to legislate for something similar.

Votes stack up for foresters' bid to cut pre-1990 forests and offset plant elsewhere

Forestry offsetting gains "overwhelming" support

18 Mar 2008

The Flexible Land Use Alliance (FLUA) says it now has "overwhelming" support for a foresty offset scheme in both Parliament and the finance and expenditure select committee now that the National Party has got in behind it.

Peter Neilson... some want a price on carbon without affecting costs

Business leader says to trust prices to look after the environment

18 Mar 2008

Businesses should reinforce their belief in the power of markets to put a price on carbon and take care of the environment.

Independent scientists essential for innovation fund integrity

18 Mar 2008

The Green Party says that there must be independent scientists involved in the allocation of the $700 million pastoral and food innovation fund announced today by the Government.

Clean nuclear.. why not trade its credits here?

Business wants New Zealand to go nuclear on emission credits

17 Mar 2008

Businesses being required to enter New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme want to be able to trade nuclear-sourced emissions credits.

Seeby Woodhouse ... long term aim to generate own emission credits

EXCLUSIVE PROFILE: The young millionnaire behind Green Carbon

17 Mar 2008

By Hugh de Lacy - The trauma of an 11-year-old only child seeing his parents all but ruined by the 1987 sharemarket crash is what drove Seeby Woodhouse into a hugely successful entrepreneurial career.

Select committee chair Charles Chauvel .. June 10 deadline pressure

MPs on track to get emissions bill back to House June 10

17 Mar 2008

Parliamentary Finance and Expenditure select committee hearings on the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill get underway on April 2.

Bio fuel makers: vaibility seriously at risk

17 Mar 2008

Major players in New Zealand’s fledgling biofuel manufacturing sector believe there are severe risks to its viability.

Blair.. off to build support for robust global agreement by 2009

Blair back on big nation campaign for bold global deal

16 Mar 2008

Former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will lead a major new climate change initiative aiming to "break the deadlock" on achieving a global deal on climate change.

Sue Kedgley.. her voters would rather cut red tape

Big voter thumbs up for red-tape cutting on infrastructure projects

15 Mar 2008

New national ShapeNZ polling shows 64% of New Zealanders support the use of National Policy Statements (NPS) and National Environment Statements (NES) to cut red tape when companies seek consents for infratructure projects.

Corporate tax group's views on treatment of New Zealand emission trading units

12 Mar 2008

Inland Revenue is being asked to clarify how emissions trading units, used in the coming New Zealand emissions trading scheme, will be treated. This paper prepared by Deloitte for the Corporate Tax Group (representing 32 major corporations) and submitted to the IRD, sets out the issues – and proposed solutions in how ETUs should be treated for tax purposes.

Muriel Newman

Climate Change natural - unstoppable

12 Mar 2008

By Dr Muriel Newman, Director NZ Centre for Political Research www.nzcpr.com (http://www.nzcpr.com/). I have just returned from an historic meeting of more than 500 people from around the world who gathered in New York to address the question of whether man-made global warming is really threatening the future existence of our planet.

Adaptation
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Flooding in the Waimakariri district following the April 29 to May 2 rain event.

As the sea level rises, who will pay? Councils seek answers

Tue 15 Jul 2025

By David Hill, Local Democracy Reporter | North Canterbury's councils are seeking guidance from Government over who pays for protections from sea level rise, flooding and weather events.

Agriculture
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Farmers slam proposed guidelines for sustainable finance

Today 11:30am

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.

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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Nations agree to tax premium flyers, private jets

2 Jul 2025

A group of countries, including France, Kenya, Spain and Barbados, pledged on June 30 to tax premium-class flying and private jets in a bid to raise funds for climate action and sustainable development.

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

Fri 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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CARBON PRICE: NZUs $57.33

Today 11:30am

The Carbon News NZU Index closed at $57.33 yesterday, up 17 cents on the previous day's close.

Carbon News world
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Indigenous elders lose landmark climate battle against Australian government

Today 11:30am

The Australian government has won a landmark climate case against residents of islands under siege from the impacts of climate change.

Carbon prices
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Bearish sentiment lingers for carbon market

Fri 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.

Energy
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More choices for how we use, buy and sell electricity – and lower our power bills

Today 11:30am

Media release – Electricity Authority | New Zealanders will have more choices for how they use, buy and sell electricity – so they can lower their power bills – because of new market rules confirmed today by the Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko (the Authority).

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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Govt announces $600k package for flood-affected farmers in Nelson Tasman

Today 11:30am

The government has announced a $600,000 support package for flood-affected farmers in the Nelson Tasman Region, a move Federated Farmers says is a lifeline.

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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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

Today 11:30am

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.

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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New Zealand First MP Andy Foster

Debanking bill 'financially dangerous'

Tue 15 Jul 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A private member’s bill aiming to stop financial institutions from considering ESG factors has been slammed by leading investment groups, legal experts, and climate finance advocates as misguided, financially dangerous, and legislative overreach.

Greenhouse Effect
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Forest damage following recent weather events in the Nelson-Tasman region.

4000 hectares of forest uprooted by extreme winds in Nelson-Tasman storms

Tue 15 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | Foresters are facing a massive clean-up and tens of millions of dollars worth of damage from recent climate change-fuelled storms at the top of the South Island, with initial reports of 4000 hectares of wind-thrown production forestry.

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

Fri 11 Jul 2025

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

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

Thu 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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In Latin America, the energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

8 Jul 2025

A new report shows that more than half of the 95 energy transition-related lawsuits recorded globally since 2009 took place in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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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Unlocking economic growth on conservation land

9 Jul 2025

Media release - New Zealand Government | A targeted effort to reduce the backlog of applications for use of conservation land is accelerating economic growth without compromising conservation values, says Conservation Minister Tama Potaka.

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

Fri 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

Today 11:30am

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

Thu 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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Have renewables decreased electricity prices?

Today 11:30am

There is a persistent argument in certain circles that renewable energy is associated with higher costs than fossil fuels.

Science
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Researchers unveil new tools to accurately track methane emissions

Mon 14 Jul 2025

Breakthrough methane monitoring tools developed by Earth Sciences New Zealand are set to transform how farmers, landfill operators, and wastewater facilities track and tackle their methane emissions.

Tax
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Green budget 'ludicrous la-la land' – govt

15 May 2025

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said the budget was "clown show economics" and an "absolute circus".

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

Thu 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?

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UN Human Rights Council fails to call out fossil fuels after decision cuts mention

Fri 11 Jul 2025

A proposal by the Marshall Islands and Colombia calling for a transition away from fossil fuels at the UN Human Rights Council failed to make it into the council’s declaration on climate change and human rights issued on Tuesday.

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

Fri 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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