The Latest Breaking News from the Emissions Trading Scheme

In this week's episode of VOTE2023, we talk to Green Party co-leader and Climate Change Minister James Shaw about student-focused policies, electric vehicles, the Emissions Trading Scheme, and whether the Green Party would form a coalition government with National

Labour released the first ever climate-specific policy manifesto from a political party in New Zealand on Monday but not everything in the document was new.

Grab the first-mover advantage while you can is the one message intransigent farmers and co-ops should take from the NZ Steel deal – the money from the Govt's Emissions Trading Scheme is dwindling fast.

The energy sector wants Government to urgently introduce regulations enabling carbon capture and storage in New Zealand, as a way to cut CO2 emissions. But as Nikki Mandow finds out, others have very different opinions. 

In the Budget James Shaw was the only minister to link how a sustainable, climate-compatible economy generates wealth in all its forms. Every minister should have made variations on that theme

The inquiry into forestry slash destruction in Tairāwhiti, and review of the Emissions Trading Scheme, should prioritise the state of the planet not the balance sheets of global corporations, writes Dame Anne Salmond.

The Emissions Trading Scheme was always a neoliberal, market-based, get-out-of-jail-free plan. Time to lead the way with Tradable Energy Quotas instead, writes Pat Baskett

Jacinda Ardern called climate change the ‘nuclear-free moment’ of her generation. Her replacement doesn’t seem so sure