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Jackman puts heat on world leaders
Actor Hugh Jackman is calling on world leaders to make progress in climate change talks in New York this week.

Manure dumped at Top Gear star's home
Jeremy Clarkson finds himself in the s*** when six female climate change activists dump a pile of horse manure on his driveway in Oxfordshire.

Labour, Nats should restart ETS talks: Dunne
Labour and National should put aside their egos and resume ETS talks for the betterment of the country, says United Future leader Peter Dunne.

Greenpeace moves palm kernel protest to port
Greenpeace is trying to keep up pressure on Fonterra to limit its use of palm kernel feed with a public rally outside the Ports of Tauranga.

Police: All 14 protesters removed from ship
Farmers have described Greenpeace's occupation of an inbound cargo vessel as 'economic treason.'

Second activist arrested from animal feed cargo ship
Police make second arrest while expressing serious safety concerns for activists aboard a cargo ship off the Tauranga coast.

Public face $1.6b pollution bill under ETS - Labour
The cost to taxpayers of the Government's ETS scheme could be four times more than predicted, says Phil Goff.

Business backs emissions plan changes
Business lobby groups welcomed proposed changes to the emissions trading scheme agreed by the Government and the Maori Party yesterday.

Amended emissions scheme 'could be law by December'
The Maori Party has come to the Government's aid to get a new emissions trading scheme (ETS) in place.

Carbon deal lifts taxpayers' bill
A Govt and the Maori Party deal on emissions trading legislation will halve the impact on power and petrol prices over the first two years of the scheme.

<i>Wall St Journal</i> criticises NZ's carbon programme
An editorial in the influential Wall St Journal today accuses New Zealand of "Green PR gone wild", in our stance on carbon emissions.