Climate change

News and analysis of climate change and how it will affect New Zealand's economy, environment and population.
Why we ran the climate-change series
Climate change

Pattrick Smellie: Why we ran the climate-change series

If Adrian Macey and Dave Frame are wrong in their series for BusinessDesk about the flaws in NZ's climate change policy, let's hear why. So far, the silence in response has been deafening.

Pattrick Smellie 04 Oct 2022
The mounting cost of extreme weather
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The mounting cost of extreme weather

Six of the seven most expensive years on record have occurred since 2016.

Andy Fyers 03 Oct 2022
Climate policy: action, not carbon credits
Climate change

Climate policy: action, not carbon credits

A faster, lower-cost route, with a greater impact on carbon emissions reduction, is available to NZ than current policy settings.

Pattrick Smellie 03 Oct 2022
Better ways to do climate policy
Climate change

Adrian Macey and Dave Frame: Better ways to do climate policy

The final of a five-part series suggests there are faster, lower-cost and more locally impactful ways to get to net zero carbon emissions than with our current policies.