Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

DARK SECRETS: Emissions trading scheme | Rare Historical Photos

Māori foresters angry at 'destruction of value' in emissions trading scheme

To make up for the shortfall of climate action the ETS creates, the Government will pay billions to someone overseas to plant trees for NZ to restrict us from doing the same, says Te Kapunga Dewes.

Newsroom.co.nz

East Coast farmland crumbles after carbon group takes over

The Government's Emissions Trading Scheme incentivises the planting of pine forest. But a company looking to cash in on the scheme has ended up causing significant erosion on a farm on the East Coast within months of taking over.

Newsroom.co.nz

Sweetheart climate payouts for farmers

Agricultural emissions are behind two thirds of the warming New Zealand is responsible for, but the sector is slated to get special benefits under the Government's farm pricing proposal.

Newsroom.co.nz

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

New Zealand farmers may pay for greenhouse gas emissions under world-first plans

By 2025, farmers would pay a levy on emissions from sources such as cow burps and gases from their urine under proposals released by Jacinda Ardern

The Guardian - AU

The government art of 'hiding the cheese'

Did the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority withhold advice it received on value of low-carbon tech subsidies? 'Categorically not,' insists chief executive Andrew Caseley.

Newsroom.co.nz

Five lessons from the Emissions Trading Scheme

Basil Sharp argues we need to focus on having the ETS deliver a well-functioning set of property rights that create value and certainty for businesses.

Newsroom.co.nz

Zombie forests, carbon sinks and the ETS

Nikki Mandow explains how the Emissions Trading Scheme works, and why not all forests are equal when it comes to sucking up carbon – or earning carbon credits

Newsroom.co.nz

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Extra half billion dollars in fuel cuts could have gone to critical health shortages

Unspent Covid funds that could have brought critical medical staff into the country will instead provide a continued discount for the use of the roads, and have no real impact on inflation.

Newsroom.co.nz

Farm pricing to cut emissions by just 1 percent

The primary sector's plan to price and reduce emissions from livestock and fertiliser is rooted in wishful thinking about technology that is not yet proven at scale.

Newsroom.co.nz

Interactive: How NZ will meet new carbon budgets

Newsroom's interactive graphics allow you to dig behind the rhetoric to see what needs to go right to achieve our climate targets.

Newsroom.co.nz

Government chips away at emissions trading scheme

If a tree is planted in the forest, should it be taxed or subsidised? No, wrong answer.

Newsroom.co.nz

Rushing emissions plan a costly mistake

The capital city's attempt to take over emissions reductions highlights the poor understanding of the emissions trading scheme – but that's scarcely surprising when the Govt is rushing.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Climate Change Commission

Ministry for Environment

13 stories

the Climate Change Commission

13 stories

Emissions Trading Scheme

12 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.