Environment Commissioner supports amended ETS bill
New Zealand must implement an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), says Dr Jan Wright, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. "It's the most efficient way for New Zealand to adjust to a...
View ArticleMaori Party against ETS bill: concern over subsidies, impacts on Maori land...
The Maori Party says in EST bill debate that it is "opposed to the concept of paying the polluters; of rewarding the corporate lobbyists with huge exemptions; and the very nature of trading rather than...
View ArticleBig emitters win more time to put ETS review case
The closing date for submissions on the emissions trading scheme review has been extended because a group representing some of New Zealand's largest companies realised it wasn't going to be heard,...
View ArticleETS submissions close, but numbers are secret
Submisisons on the review of the emissions trading scheme have closed - but just how many there are is still under wraps.
View ArticleMinister backs ETS review climate change stand
The emissions trading scheme review is standing by its decision not to hear debate about the validity of climate change science - and has the backing of Climate Change Minister Nick Smith.
View ArticleEnergy leader calls for carbon tax solution
New Zealand's largest domestically owned and operated energy company is calling for the government to postpone the emissions trading scheme and reconsider a carbon tax.
View ArticleETS hearings timetable out today
Submitters to the ETS review committee should know later today the timetable for submission hearings.
View ArticleETS review hearings start on Thursday
The ETS review committee will begin hearing submissions on Thursday morning, with the list of those who will be presenting being provided to committee members tonight.
View ArticleConcrete plant swings on ETS, says manufacturer
The axe could fall on plans for a major new concrete manufacturing plant if the emissions trading scheme review committee does not heed industry warnings.
View ArticleHFCs clampdown could backfire, company warns
Clamping down on the so-called "bad boys" of human-induced climate change - hydroflourocarbons (HFCs) - in the emissions trading scheme could backfire and actually lead to increased emissions, warns an...
View ArticleEnergy leaders have big day out at ETS hearings
The energy sector gets its chance to be heard by the ETS review committee this morning.
View ArticleCross-party pact vital for ETS, says Vector
A strong cross-party agreement on durable climate change policy is the single most important thing that the emissions trading scheme review committee must deliver, the committee is being told this...
View ArticleFifty years of work under threat, says Oxfam
Climate change could reverse all the international development work of the past 50 years, the emissions trading scheme review committee heard yesterday.
View ArticleGull wants fixed carbon price after ETS
Independent oil company Gull has asked the emissions trading scheme review committee to set the price of carbon for at least the first 18 months after the liquid fuel sector enters the ETS.
View ArticleETS should be suspended, says coalition
Greenhouse Policy Coalition executive director Catherine Beard, representing the energy-intensive sector on climate change issues, is calling on the select committee reviewing the emissions trading...
View ArticleFarming groups split on need for ETS
Federated Farmers continued its call for the emissions trading scheme to be scrapped when it appeared before the emission trading scheme review committee yesterday - but not everyone in the...
View ArticleETS reviewers eye June date for report
The emissions trading scheme review committee could report back to Parliament by the end of next month.
View ArticleETS review body eyes Government line
The emissions trading scheme review committee is keeping quiet about when it will release its findings - but is aligning with the Government behind the scenes.
View ArticleGo online and have your say on the ETS
Parliament is calling for submissions on changes to the emissions trading scheme - and for the first time they can be made online.
View ArticleAussie farmers out of ETS 'faster than a rat up a drainpipe'
As predicted by Federated Farmers two weeks ago, Australia's Federal Government yesterday opted to permanently exclude farmers from its emissions trading scheme.
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