No Right Turn

Last week, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment recommended that forestry be removed from the Emissions Trading Scheme . Its a...

The government today announced its review of the Emissions Trading Scheme . As is clear from the media coverage , this is focused on one is...

On Wednesday the Climate Change Commission released its 2023 Draft advice to inform the strategic direction of the Government’s second emiss...

Newshub reports that farmers are outraged that we're planting too many trees : Newshub can reveal 25 times more land was converted int...

For a long time now the Climate Change Commission has been expressing concerns about the place of forestry in the Emissions Trading Scheme. ...

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

Farmers have been whining for years about carbon forestry , and now they seem to have got their way, with the government proposing to ban pe...

Last year, the government released its draft emissions reduction plan . The plan further weakened the Climate Commission's already-weak ...

While the ETS has many, many flaws, one way it is working properly is encouraging displacement of unproductive agriculture by carbon farmin...

Last year, Beef and Lamb New Zealand produced a bought-and-paid-for report claiming that their industry was already carbon neutral, so didn...

Since climate change first became an issue, farmers have been desperately trying to avoid taking responsibility for their emissions - first ...

A farmer in Te Anau has slashed and burned 800 hectares of native forest : A Te Anau farmer accused of slashing and burning down 800 hectar...

The most effective way New Zealand has of fighting climate change and preventing the earth from becoming uninhabitable in the short term is...

The Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Reform) Amendment Bill , which finally make the ETS sortof function, over a decade after it w...

Farmers are outraged over approval being granted to Dryland Carbon - a dedicated New Zealand offsetting firm - to buy 1065 hectares of farml...

Farmers held a hate-march on Parliament today, complete with MAGA hats, gun-nut signs, and gendered insults. While supposedly about a grab-b...

With crunch time for new Zealand climate policy approaching , most of the New Zealand media have got on board with a global reporting effort...

Newsroom today has an excellent, in-depth article on pine trees as carbon sinks . The TL;DR is that pine is really good at soaking up carbo...

Rural communities are wailing about forestry conversions "taking land out of production" and putting it into locking up carbon. It...

The government's billion trees program is the sort of policy which could make a real difference to our emissions and the fight against c...