FRIDAY POLITICS: A new look at the air we breathe
Jacinda Ardern takes a bowl of yaqona with Fiji leader Frank Bainimarama THE GOVERNMENT announced plans this week to overhaul the rules governing air quality and fine particulate matter.
View ArticleConstruction sector latest focus for emissions cuts
EMISSIONS limits will be imposed as part of resource consents for new buildings under proposals to cut emissions from the construction sector.
View ArticleBill requires finance sector to disclose climate risks
A BILL requiring the financial sector to disclose the impact of climate change on their business and explain how they manage climate-related risks has its first reading in Parliament this week.
View ArticleCarbon dividend would be "socially progressive": Shaw
CLIMATE Change Minister James Shaw told this morning's Environment Select Committee that using revenues from ETS auctions to pay a carbon dividend would be "socially progressive."
View ArticleQuestions, questions, questions….
CLIMATE change is the existential question of our age, so it's hardly surprising it generates more than a few parliamentary written questions…. but too often those questions reveal more about the...
View ArticleAotearoa first country to pass climate reporting law
AOTEAROA has become the first country in the world to pass a law requiring companies to disclose climate-related risks and opportunities.
View ArticleTackling climate change at the core of government's economic strategy: PM
TACKLING climate change will be at the core of the government's economic strategy, prime minister Jacinda Ardern declared in her first parliamentary speech of the year yesterday.
View ArticleShaw worried carbon budgets don't go far enough
"I KNOW that there are those who will be worried that these emissions budgets do not go far enough. I'm one of them," climate change minister James Shaw told Parliament yesterday in the opening speech...
View ArticleForestry ETS changes pass
Among the bills to pass into law in Parliament’s recent Urgency session was the extension of the penalty transition regime for small forestry owners who remove trees.
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