No Right Turn

How do you have an emissions trading scheme when there are no permits to emit? That's a question Aotearoa is eventually going to have t...

Since winning power in 2023, the present National regime has Fucked Around on climate change policy. They're repealed a swathe of measur...

Last month, He Pou a Rangi shockingly recommended increasing the supply of carbon credits auctioned under the Emissions Trading Scheme . The...

When the Emissions Trading Scheme was originally introduced, way back in 2008, it included a generous transitional subsidy scheme, which saw...

For a while, it looked like the government had unfucked the ETS, at least insofar as unit settings were concerned. They had to be forced int...

In December 2021, then-Climate Change Minister James Shaw finally ended Tiwai Point's excessive pollution subsidies , cutting their ...

In what has become regular news, the quarterly ETS auction has failed, with nobody even bothering to bid . The immediate reason is that the ...

The final ETS auction of the year was held today, resulting in a partial clearance: 4 million of the available 11.1 million units were sold...

Back in March, He Pou a Rangi laid down the gauntlet to the government, recommending ETS price and volume settings which would slash the amo...

Yesterday the government released the advice on its proposal to repeal the offshore fossil gas exploration ban, including a Climate Implicat...

Two weeks ago the climate denier government announced they would be giving farmers what they want and removing agriculture from the ETS . ...

Since entering office, National has unravelled practically every climate policy, leaving us with no effective way of reducing emissions or m...

National's 2023 campaign was all about tax cuts for landlords. And one of the key ways they were planning to fund it was a "climate...

The first ETS auction of the year was held today, and resulted in the market failing to clear . Only 2.97 million of 3.52 million units were...

He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has released its latest advice on NZ ETS unit limits and price control settings for 2025–2029 . Thi...

One of the major arguments climate polluters have deployed against being made to pay for their pollution is the threat of "leakage...

There was another ETS auction this morning. and like all the other ones this year, it failed to clear - meaning that 23 million tons of car...

There was another ETS auction this morning, and like the other two this year, it failed to clear , with no bids above the confidential reser...

Last December, Climate Change Minister James Shaw introduced a bill to the House which would have massively increased pollution subsidies in...

Earlier in the month Lawyers for Climate Action won a historic victory, overturning labour's 2022 ETS settings decision , which had cras...