Stories by Eloise Gibson
News
How a boom in 'extra long-haul' flights could affect the climate
The main transporter of jet fuel to Auckland Airport is predicting big growth in international flights.
NZ will meet first target for transport emissions cuts without EV subsidy, Simeon Brown says
The Transport Minister says advice shows scrapping EV payments won't derail the country from meeting its first carbon budget, which runs from 2022-2025.
COP28 not quite the end of fossil fuels, despite landmark deal
Analysis - The wording was filled with what small Pacific nations described as a "litany of loopholes", Eloise Gibson explains.
NZ among group fighting for stronger stand on fossil fuels at COP28 - Watts
New Zealand's climate change minister says he and major countries are still fighting for a stronger deal after a controversial draft at COP28. Audio
Save $2b a year by cutting carbon, Climate Change Commission tells government
New Zealand isn't on track to meet its climate targets, according to a new review, and it could end up costing the government millions making up the shortfall.
New Zealand 'extremely quiet' at COP28, indigenous expert says
A climate expert attending his fourth world climate summit says New Zealand has been unusually quiet this year.
Cutting methane from livestock burps 'essential' to limit global warming
The world's top agriculture body has presented a blueprint for how to get livestock emissions down at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai.
Cyclone-hit forest owners given time to avoid repaying carbon credits
Forestry owners hit by devastating cyclones this year have been given extra time to replant so they won't have to repay millions of dollars in carbon credits.
COP28: NZ added to list of countries supporting tripling renewable energy
Aotearoa was one of only a few OECD countries missing from the initial list of 118 signatories to the pledge, but a spokesperson for the Climate Change Minister has confirmed NZ is supporting it.
ACT MP Brooke van Velden gets public ticking off from commissioner
Parliament's environment watchdog has written to ACT deputy leader Brooke van Velden to say she is sharing misinformation about his findings on the oil and gas ban.
NZ approach to cutting emissions criticised by climate researchers
New Zealand will need to spend billions on projects cutting emissions in other countries to make up for what the Climate Change Commission says was a late start to cutting greenhouse gases at home.
Doubt surrounds chances of carbon credits auction selling out
The final government auction of carbon credits for the year has failed to sell any units.
COP28: NZ supports tripling global renewable energy, minister says
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says he will provide an update on New Zealand's stance on a global renewables pledge when he lands in Dubai at the end of the week.
Native forest plan cheaper than paying for carbon credits, group claims
Recloaking Papatūānuku say sucking carbon out of the atmosphere using homegrown projects could be cheaper than buying carbon offsets overseas.
Court of Appeal mulling challenge to the pace of carbon cuts after heated hearing
The court has finishing hearing a challenge to the Climate Change Commission. There were some heated moments (literally) and a series of dinner party-related analogies, involving baguettes and wine.
Toitū Envirocare no longer accepting carbon credits as proof of carbon neutrality
Offsets from planting and protecting trees are often used by companies wanting to claim they are carbon neutral or doing extra to reduce their impact, on top of cutting raw emissions at the source.
Westpac says farmers don't need new tech to meet its climate targets
Westpac bank has set a target for cutting the emissions of the farms it lends to.
World climate efforts better, but still not good enough - UN report
Promises made by governments to cut emissions have edged closer to the goal of keeping heating inside 1.5C, but will not get us there, a new report has found.
NZ could breach EU free trade deal if it fails Paris Agreement obligations
New Zealand could find itself in breach of its free trade deal with Europe if it walks back its commitments under the Paris Agreement.
Climate change poses risk to human rights, Court of Appeal told
The Human Rights Commission has told the Court of Appeal that climate change poses serious human rights issues.
'No room for new oil exploration' in NZ - German climate diplomat
Germany's top climate diplomat says reopening New Zealand to offshore oil and gas exploration would go against science and economics.
Climate change's financial impacts hugely underestimated - Kiwi researchers
A study by two New Zealand researchers has found the global costs of climate change are being underestimated by billions.
The warnings before NZ's spending on measuring cattle burps from space
How did New Zealand come to invest $29m in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan that will not improve New Zealand's methane estimates?
Environment watchdog calls out farming groups' claims on methane emissions
Parliament's environment commissioner Simon Upton has accused farming groups of wrongly claiming they had new science on methane emissions.
Coalition of climate chaos? Where National, ACT and NZ First differ on emissions
Christopher Luxon's pre-election promise that New Zealand's climate targets were not on the table may be about to be tested.