Business NZ: problem with trading scheme design
Business has a problem - not with an emissions trading scheme, but with the design of the one currently proposed for New Zealand.
View ArticleGHGPC: Emissions Trading - at what cost?
In a presentation to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee hearing submissions on the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill, the Greenhouse Policy coalition,...
View ArticleETS bill submissions online
The Parliamentary Servicee now has copies of all publicly available submissions on the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill available online here
View ArticleSelect Committee interim report on emissions trading bill
The Finance and Expenditure Select Committee has issued an 18-page interim report on the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Prefernece) bill.
View ArticleForum heads to the select committee
A high-powered group of business and community leaders who back an emissions trading scheme will appear before the finance and expenditure select committee today to answer questions from MPs.
View ArticleForum assures committee: parliamentary process is parliamentary process
The Government-appointed multi-sector Leadership Forum on Climate Change is not working as an alternative to the select committee process - and has told the select committee considering the emissions...
View ArticleDon't rush the ETS - Field
Independent MP Taito Phillip Field is unlikely to support the Government's emissions trading scheme, telling Carbon News that he fears it could damage the economy and that he doesn't believe it needs...
View ArticleETS back in Parliament
The emissions trading scheme is back before Parliament, with new proposals to widen the allocation of free credits and to allow lower-emitters into the scheme.
View ArticleETS amendments tinkering around the edges for forestry sector
Forest owners will take little comfort from proposed amendments to the Climate Change (Emissions Tradings and Renewable Preference) Bill which were reported back from the finance and expenditure...
View ArticlePeters key as Clark counts ETS heads and comes up one short
Inter-party lobbying has begun in earnest on the emissions trading scheme, with National and Labour wooing the minor parties and a planned meeting between the Greens and New Zealand First cancelled as...
View ArticleEnvironment 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...
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