No Right Turn

One of the central planks of the previous Labour-Green government's emissions reduction policy was GIDI ( Government Investment in Decar...

National today announced that it would be introducing its corrupt Muldoonist resource consent fast-track legislation to the House today , an...

The big political news of the day is James Shaw's resignation as Green co-leader . It was expected: his refusal to contest Wellington Ce...

Last December, Labour made the first in a series of terrible climate decisions, over-ruling Climate Change Minister James Shaw and the Clima...

Back in December, the Labour Party sabotaged our climate change policy , ignoring advice from the Climate Commission and Climate Change Mini...

If you thought about Aotearoa's non-agricultural emissions a few years ago, four mega-emitters stood out: the Marsden Point oil refinery...

One of the good transparency moves over the last decade has been an increasing shift to the government releasing information proactively. We...

James Shaw gave the Green party's annual "state of the planet" address over the weekend, in which he expressed frustration wi...

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...

In March last year, in a panic over rising petrol prices caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the government made a poor decision, ...

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...

The big news over the weekend was that Green party delegates at their AGM voted to re-open nominations for James Shaw's co-leadership po...

Back in 2020, the government realised that the industrial allocations in the ETS - supposed to protect large polluters from unfair competiti...

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

Good news: New Zealand apparently signed up with other countries to set an end date for fossil fuels : A group of countries at the COP26 cl...

Last month the Emissions Trading Scheme turned into a farce , when the government flooded the market with credits in a failed and wasteful a...

At the beginning of the month, the Emissions Trading Scheme turned into a farce , when the government flooded the market with credits in a f...

Jacinda Ardern: 'Climate change is my generation's nuclear-free moment' , Newshub , 20 August 2017: In her campaign launch spee...

Writing on Interest , and in the context of carbon farming displacing traditional sheep and beef farming, Keith Woodford says : Given that ...

Newsroom today has a piece on the ETS price crisis and the risk that poor market design means we will blow the carbon budget in its first r...