The Latest Breaking News from Emissions Trading Scheme

The Government's Emissions Trading Scheme incentivises the planting of pine forest. But a company looking to cash in on the scheme has ended up causing significant erosion on a farm on the East Coast within months of taking over. 

Agricultural emissions are behind two thirds of the warming New Zealand is responsible for, but the sector is slated to get special benefits under the Government's farm pricing proposal.

Unspent Covid funds that could have brought critical medical staff into the country will instead provide a continued discount for the use of the roads, and have no real impact on inflation.

The primary sector's plan to price and reduce emissions from livestock and fertiliser is rooted in wishful thinking about technology that is not yet proven at scale.

Newsroom's interactive graphics allow you to dig behind the rhetoric to see what needs to go right to achieve our climate targets.

If a tree is planted in the forest, should it be taxed or subsidised? No, wrong answer.

The capital city's attempt to take over emissions reductions highlights the poor understanding of the emissions trading scheme – but that's scarcely surprising when the Govt is rushing.