Stories by Eloise Gibson

Both sides of methane debate claim to be backed by science, but say their opponents are "political".

New Zealand's current target is to cut net emissions by 50 percent by 2030.

A new analysis of the biggest companies on the New Zealand stockmarket found only 18 had a consistent trend of lowering their emissions.

ETS is the government's major tool for lowering planet-heating gases that contribute to heating, droughts and extreme floods and storms around the globe. Audio

The executive director of a climate lobby group says she fears the government's methane review will be used to present politics as scientific fact, bypassing the Climate Change Commission because it…

A fossil fuel body is warmly praising the government's "no nonsense" draft emissions plan. Audio

Customers are being warned that in a worst case scenario, Vector might have to stop supplying gas to some suburbs. Audio

The country was now at 41st place after taking significant steps back in climate policy, the index found.

The findings may help explain why planet-heating methane emissions are soaring, even as countries grapple with expensive climate-change fuelled disasters.

It will help pay for losses suffered by poorer countries because of climate change.

The first week of the global COP29 climate summit was remarkable for the wrong reasons, but with the second week now underway, a veteran NZ diplomat says the event is making constructive progress.

NZ First campaigned on trying to get New Zealand's enormous ocean "exclusive economic zone" recognised in the country's climate accounts. Audio

Or is there still time to stop burning fossil fuels to prevent 4-5 metres of sea level rise? A science team is on an urgent mission to find out.

Analysis: NZ's climate change minister will be co-leading talks on international carbon trading the global climate summit in Baku next week, even though the government has been unable to commit to…

NZ will argue at COP29 for oil-rich companies to join a climate finance fund - but any future US contribution could be in question. Audio

A global effort to audit countries' responses to climate change found New Zealand has strong laws but could do better.

The pamphlet, handed out to schoolchildren, presents a trucking firm and a coal-burning electricity company as climate heroes. Audio

The government says it closed a unit aimed at helping fossil fuel workers into new jobs, because the programme did not align with its priorities.

An East Coast beef station has become a test case for a habitat regeneration project offering Mahi Tokens to fund the environmental work.

Two fires that tore through sensitive peat wetlands in 2022 released more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide, pushing emissions from New Zealand's peat soils as a whole to a level comparable…

The government not joining the international trend to require airlines to replace some fossil fuel with sustainable fuel contributed to the carrier ditching its 2030 climate target, Air NZ says.

Companies want the transport minister's new regulations on tailpipe emissions to be overturned.

NZ needs to "get off the sidelines" and start making deals with other countries or it will fail to meet its 2030 international climate target, thinktank says.

A respected hurricane forecaster went viral this week for choking up while warning Americans about the approaching Hurricane Milton.

The health impacts of traffic pollution are worse than previously reported.