Brian Fallow: Climate warms towards Govt's plan to cut carbon
Consensus is building behind planned Zero Carbon Act to combat climate change.
Consensus is building behind planned Zero Carbon Act to combat climate change.
Planting 1 billion trees in 10 years is more achievable than it might sound.
Air NZ, Fonterra and Z Energy among major companies pledging to new climate collective.
Airlines experiment with alternative fuels but hydrocarbons are proving hard to replace.
Having five different income streams make a remote hill country farm viable
A new study has suggested a fresh way to account for key greenhouse gas methane.
A top panel has laid out starting points for NZ to prepare for a warmer, wilder future.
Report shows ''major changes will be needed," commission chair Murray Sherwin says.
The way climate change law has been interpreted is "plain nonsense", a councillor says.
Neil Walker wants to be sure he can claim carbon credits on new forest he plans to plant.
COMMENT: In fighting emissions, should agriculture get a better deal than others?
Climate change action has emerged a winner in just-signed coalition deals.
What policies are parties proposing to manage and protect our natural resources?
Dairy farmers won't have to pay for their climate pollution yet, the Govt says.
Emissions trading scheme isn't fit for purpose.
Cathay Pacific has taken a stake in a company producing bio fuel out of city waste.
NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.
A leading climate scientist has welcomed a new 20-year Government "roadmap" that singles out climate change as an environmental research priority for New Zealand.
Labour's proposals will make things a lot worse for exporters, writes Bruce Wills.
Prime Minister John Key has defended New Zealand's emissions trading scheme amid criticism it is soft compared with a new Australian scheme.
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown is confident his negotiations with Julia Gillard's Labor Government will see a carbon tax put in place across the Tasman.
Labour is continuing to insist that putting agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme in 2013 won't raise the price of dairy products, and says Prime Minister John Key is being misleading by saying it will.
NZ farmers are unlikely to be brought into the emissions trading scheme in 2015 unless scientific advances are made in reducing animal emissions and our trading partners make giant strides in pricing carbon.