Links to topical New Zealand news items:
July 2025:
A series of news articles about climate change adaptation in New Zealand:
25/07/2025: The Climate Change Commission has published their second monitoring report on New Zealand’s emissions reductions - their assessment of progress towards meeting Aotearoa New Zealand’s emissions budgets and the 2050 target.
24/07/2025: Jamie Tahana, “UN's highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for emissions” RNZ Pacific. The link to the International Court of Justice document can be found here
22/07/2025: Eloise Gibson, “Can households really assess their own climate risk?” RadioNZ
21/07/2025: Eloise Gibson, “Flood victims will not be on their own, says chair of contentious report”, RadioNZ
18/07/2025: Alexia Russell, “Paying for the Reality of Climate Change” Radio NZ
15/07/2025: Gordon Campbell “On Ducking the Costs of Climate Change” Scoop.co.nz
14/07/2025: David Hill, “As the sea level rises who will pay? Councils seek answers”, RadioNZ
14/07/2025: Morning Report, “Long-term changes needed to bailouts, natural disaster responses - Christopher Luxon”, RadioNZ
10/07/2025: Kate Newton, “No future climate adaptation assistance would leave NZers ‘on their own - expert”, RadioNZ
10/07/2025: Lilian Hanly, “Homeowners warned weather-related buyouts may cease in 20 years” Checkpoint, RadioNZ
09/07/2025:L Kate Newton, “No climate change buyouts in future, expert group tells government” RadioNZ
09/07/2025: Ministry for the Environment, “A proposed approach for New Zealand’s adaptation framework” [The Independent Reference Group on Climate Adaptation] July 2025, Publication CR617
28 May 2025
The Ministry for the Environment has published Strengthening ETS Market Governance
16 May 2025
The Ministry for the Environment has published the Measuring Emissions Guide 2025 that includes updates to some emission factors.
23 April 2025
The Climate Change Commision has published its annual advice to the Government on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) unit settings
16 April 2025
Ipsos New Zealand has released the findings of a new 32-country study People and Climate Change Report 2025 that includes perceptions of the risks facing us from the climate crisis as well as where the responsibility for greater action lies.
15 April 2025
The Ministry for the Environment has published the 2023 GHG Inventory
8 April 2025
The Ministry for the Environment has published Our Environment 2025, a three-yearly report, prepared in conjunction with StatsNZ, on the state of the environment.
7 April 2025
An Eloise Gibson item on RNZ News about the modelling underlying the government’s plan to acheive net zero by 2050 (and potentially by 2044). The modelling shows that it would entail 280,000ha of new pine trees being planted on public land.
28 March 2025
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal, by Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc (LCANZI) who applied in the High Court for a judicial review of advice given by the Climate Change Commission to the Minister of Climate Change.
23 March 2025
An Eloise Gibson item on RNZ News about New Zealand’s international climate targets and do we have to meet them
7 March 2025
The New Zealand Government’s waste and resource efficiency strategy
17 February 2025
30 January 2025
The Government has announced the country’s second international climate target [NDC2] under the Paris Agreement for the period 2031 - 35.
29 January 2025