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Looming 'clean car' tax accelerates uptake of gas guzzlers
Environment

Looming 'clean car' tax accelerates uptake of gas guzzlers

Kiwis are snapping up as many utes and commercial vehicles as they can ahead of next month's feebate scheme 

Brent Melville 03 Mar 2022
Concern growing about the carbon farming threat to sheep and beef sector
Environment

Concern growing about the carbon farming threat to sheep and beef sector

The rapidly rising price of carbon in the NZ Emissions trading scheme has added a new market driver for land use and value.

Rebecca Howard 16 Feb 2022
Learning to love Rio Tinto – can it be done?
Environment Analysis

Learning to love Rio Tinto – can it be done?

Rio Tinto has a lifelong history of being unlikeable. Its sudden desire to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open raises questions not only of electricity price, but of trust.

Pattrick Smellie 10 Feb 2022
'Net zero' chance of hitting emissions targets
Environment Free

'Net zero' chance of hitting emissions targets

Experts are calling into question the Climate Change Commission's transport emission goals, and say there's little chance of hitting them any time soon.

Brent Melville 10 Jan 2022