No Right Turn

Back in 2023, Aotearoa had a serious climate policy. Non-agricultural emissions were covered by the ETS, and despite some initial hiccups, t...

For twenty years, Aotearoa's climate change policy went through a continuous cycle of governments making big promises, then doing nothin...

When National came to power in 2023, one of its first acts was to repeal all useful climate change policy . When they finally released their...

Back in November, He Pou a Rangi provided the government with formal advice on the domestic contribution to our next Paris target. Not what ...

One of the purposes of the Zero Carbon Act was to break the bad old cycle of announcing targets and then doing nothing to meet them. Instea...

The government is supposed to release its second Emissions Reduction Plan any day now, and if its anything like the draft, it will be a pile...

One of the obligations of the Paris Climate Change Agreement is for every country to set a "Nationally Determined Contribution" - ...

On Friday the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment released their submission on National's second Emissions Reduction Plan, ri...

National released their draft 2026-2030 Emissions Reduction Plan today. The plan is required under the Zero Carbon Act, and must set out po...

In 2019, Parliament, in a supposed bipartisan consensus, passed the Zero Carbon Act. The Act established long-term emissions reduction targe...

The Greens had their pre-election AGM on the weekend, and released their manifesto , including their climate change policy . Unfortunately, ...

Canada is burning down and American cities are choking on the smoke . The arctic ice-cap is now beyond the point of no return . There have b...

Over the last few days Aotearoa was hit by ex-tropical cyclone Gabrielle - the second tropical cyclone to hit us in just two months. Huge ch...

RNZ this morning reports that Climate Change Minister James Shaw is open to another look at climate change rules to ensure that the Zero C...

Back in 2017, then-opposition leader Jacinda Ardern declared climate change to be "my generation's nuclear-free moment" . Sinc...

One of the key planks of yesterday's Emissions Reduction Plan is a $650 million fund to help decarbonise industry by subsidising replace...

The government released its Emissions Reduction Plan today. The plan is required under the Zero Carbon Act and must specify how exactly th...

The government today released its first three emissions budgets , covering the periods 2022-25, 2026-30, and 2031-35. The good news? They...

Back in November, the government introduced a new, "more ambitious" 2030 climate change target, which turned out to not be very am...

In June 2020 the government finally took some concrete action on climate change, repealing an odious provision in the RMA which prevented lo...