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Auction platform passes first testToday 12:00pm - New Zealand’s new carbon-auctioning seems to be working smoothly. |
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Biden signs sweeping orders on climate changeToday 12:00pm - United States president Joe Biden has unveiled a radical change in direction from the Trump era by halting fossil fuel activity on public lands and directing the United States government to start a full-frontal effort to lower planet-heating emissions. |
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BlackRock threatens to sell shares in worst climate pollutersWednesday - BlackRock, the world’s biggest investment fund manager, has threatened to sell shares in the worst corporate polluters in a bid to support the goal of net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. |
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Energy efficiency boosts jobs, says IEAWednesday - Improving energy efficiency creates far more jobs than generating it, and at the same time provides a way out of the covid crisis by bringing prosperity. |
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'Gas is over,' says EU bank chiefTuesday - The European Investment Bank says it will end all funding for fossil fuels before the end of the year. |
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Fuel industry leaders join Aussie emissions reduction panelTuesday - Fossil-fuel industry leaders and a controversial economist have joined a committee responsible for ensuring the integrity of projects that get climate funding in Australia. |
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Biden's Keystone death sentence means oil industry must innovateTuesday - In one of his first acts of office, United States President Joe Biden has issued an executive order that effectively kills the Keystone XL pipeline project. |
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WORTH NOTING ...14 Dec 20 - A training course on how to take part in the first Government auction of carbon credits will be held on Thursday. |
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Help us make Marsden a renewables hub, says Z11 Dec 20 - A major shareholder in New Zealand’s only oil refinery says it should be converted to producing renewable fuels. |
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WORTH NOTING ...11 Dec 20 - The Government is expected to update Southland today on talks to stop – or at least delay – the closing of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. |
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Global 'elite' need to slash high-carbon lifestyles11 Dec 20 - The world's wealthiest 1 per cent account for more than twice the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50 per cent, according to the United Nations. |
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WORTH NOTING ...10 Dec 20 - A training course on how to take part in the first Government auction of carbon credits will be held next Thursday. |
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Genesis says it will slash emissions9 Dec 20 - The operator of the Huntly coal-and-gas-fired power station says it will cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. |
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Z tells Govt how to cut transport emissions9 Dec 20 - Z Energy is sticking with its dream of selling low-emissions biodiesel, albeit with an Australian product because its own production plant has been mothballed. |
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SYNLAIT: Food giants ready to pay for sustainable products9 Dec 20 - New Zealand dairy producers and food processors have a great opportunity to benefit from recent emission-reduction pledges by global brands, Synlait Milk said. |
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WORTH NOTING ...9 Dec 20 - Today is the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change – an event being marked by the group Parents for Climate Aotearoa (formerly Millions of Mothers) with a lunchtime toy picnic at... |
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TEN YEARS AGO ...9 Dec 20 - Ten years ago, State-owned coal miner Solid Energy was promising it would take responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions from a proposed lignite mine in Southland. |
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Japan's emissions at record low9 Dec 20 - Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.7 per cent to a record low in the 2019 financial year that ended March 2020, government figures showed on Tuesday, thanks to growing use of renewable energy... |
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