Govt rejects advice on international aviation and shipping emissions
Thu 4 Dec 2025
By Liz Kivi | The Government has rejected all the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations to strengthen emissions targets.
Treasury to offer first stab at climate liabilities pre-election
Thu 4 Dec 2025
By Pattrick Smellie | The Treasury will make a first attempt at accounting for Crown liabilities arising from New Zealand’s international climate change commitments in next year’s pre-election economic and fiscal update.
Open letter urges govt to abandon plans to subsidise LNG terminal
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Climate and renewable energy advocates have joined forces calling on the Government to ditch its plan to subsidise an LNG import terminal.
Greens slams govt over climate targets
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has accused the Government of knowingly breaching the Paris Agreement, after Cabinet papers released under the Official Information Act reveal the Government was warned its policy on biogenic methane would breach the 1.5C Paris target.
Tairāwhiti unveils $359m plan to cut storm damage and stabilise erosion-prone land
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Gisborne District Council has released a 30-year transition plan to protect Tairāwhiti from escalating climate-driven erosion and storm damage, outlining a $359 million proposal for Crown co-investment to stabilise 100,000 hectares of vulnerable land and slash the region’s long-term clean-up costs.
CARBON PRICE
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Exclusively for subscribers, the Carbon News NZU Index tracks daily movements in the compliance carbon market across multiple trading platforms.
Another auction no-show
Wed 3 Dec 2025
Today’s carbon auction failed as predicted, with all this year’s Emissions Trading Scheme auctions failing to attract a single bidder.
Carbon auction tipped to be a non-event
Tue 2 Dec 2025
By Liz Kivi | Tomorrow’s Emissions Trading Scheme auction is all but certain to fail, with participants blaming the government for destroying confidence as NZUs continue to change hands on the secondary market at a 40% discount on the $68 auction floor.
Rabobank announces new partnership to generate carbon income for rural customers
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Dutch multinational Rabobank has announced it is partnering with a company which specialises in restoring indigenous forests in a bid to generate voluntary carbon credits for farmers through planting on lower-producing farmland.
Elevated volatility continues for carbon market despite govt reassurances
26 Nov 2025
By Liz Kivi | While carbon prices have recovered somewhat from recent lows, the market is still plagued by low prices and volatility, despite soothing words from the government intended to calm rattled participants.
Asia-Pacific faces ‘$500bn-a-year’ hit from rising seas if current policies continue
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Coastal flooding could bring $500bn of annual damages to the Asia-Pacific by the year 2100, if countries do not adapt to rising sea levels.
EU agrees to end Russian gas imports by late 2027; Hungary, Slovakia oppose
Thu 4 Dec 2025
The European Union agreed on Wednesday to phase out Russian gas imports by late 2027 as part of an effort to end the bloc’s decades-long dependency on Russian energy.
Amy Westervelt: It’s time we stopped treating corporations as people
Thu 4 Dec 2025
COMMENT: Treating corporations as people and granting them First Amendment rights has warped US politics and harmed the climate. We need to overturn Citizens United.
China’s BEV trucks and the end of diesel’s dominance
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Cheap Chinese battery electric heavy trucks are no longer a rumor. They are real machines with real price tags that are so low that they force a reassessment of what the global freight industry is willing to pay for electrification.
Families on rooftops, homes buried by mud: Asia floods show water is overtaking wind as main threat
Thu 4 Dec 2025
The fallout marks a grim escalation in deadly weather across the region that has been aggravated by the blanket of carbon pollution heating the planet.
NZ and US deepen Antarctic science partnership
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Media release: New Zealand Government | New joint research initiatives focused on climate and ecosystem change expand on the long-standing collaboration between New Zealand and the United States on Antarctic science and logistics, says Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Dr Shane Reti.
New alliance launched to speed up nature regeneration across Tāmaki Auckland
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Media release | The Sustainable Business Network (SBN) has launched a groundbreaking initiative to tackle the ecological crisis impacting the Tāmaki Auckland region.
CLIMATE CALENDAR
Thu 4 Dec 2025
The Carbon News calendar of talks, events, conferences, consultations, and petitions related to climate change.
New invention cleans up greenhouse gases
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Media release: University of Auckland | A new device that removes greenhouse gases released during surgery has been successfully trialled at an Auckland hospital.
Too much credit: No connection between carbon markets and climate ambition, study finds
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Media release: Carbon Market Watch | Our latest research undermines a prevalent greenwishing hypothesis that corporate investments in the voluntary carbon market boost or reflect a company’s climate ambition.
