Stories by Eloise Gibson

Analysis - An updated estimate shows just 1 percent of New Zealand's soil is releasing between 5 and 7 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

It comes as two reports suggest gas prices will jump significantly in the next decade.

Transport Minister Simeon Brown says the Clean Car Discount was never self-financing, and rescuing the subsidy scheme would have cost more than it generated in benefits.

Before you click that online order, have a think about what all these door-to-door deliveries are doing to the climate. It may be worse than you think.

The advice was never officially presented because the new government suspended the need for regulatory impact statements for undoing Labour-era policies.

专家计算，某些特定车型的燃油车版本在收费新规下将比电动版本支出更低；综合其他不利因素，电动车市场或受到明显冲击。

Owners of a fully electric vehicle could end up paying twice as much per kilometre as someone with a petrol car, a climate and energy expert says.

The main transporter of jet fuel to Auckland Airport is predicting big growth in international flights.

The Transport Minister says advice shows scrapping EV payments won't derail the country from meeting its first carbon budget, which runs from 2022-2025.

Analysis - The wording was filled with what small Pacific nations described as a "litany of loopholes", Eloise Gibson explains.

New Zealand's climate change minister says he and major countries are still fighting for a stronger deal after a controversial draft at COP28. Audio

New Zealand isn't on track to meet its climate targets, according to a new review, and it could end up costing the government millions making up the shortfall.

A climate expert attending his fourth world climate summit says New Zealand has been unusually quiet this year.

The world's top agriculture body has presented a blueprint for how to get livestock emissions down at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai.

Forestry owners hit by devastating cyclones this year have been given extra time to replant so they won't have to repay millions of dollars in carbon credits.

Aotearoa was one of only a few OECD countries missing from the initial list of 118 signatories to the pledge, but a spokesperson for the Climate Change Minister has confirmed NZ is supporting it.

Parliament's environment watchdog has written to ACT deputy leader Brooke van Velden to say she is sharing misinformation about his findings on the oil and gas ban.

New Zealand will need to spend billions on projects cutting emissions in other countries to make up for what the Climate Change Commission says was a late start to cutting greenhouse gases at home.

The final government auction of carbon credits for the year has failed to sell any units.

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says he will provide an update on New Zealand's stance on a global renewables pledge when he lands in Dubai at the end of the week.

Recloaking Papatūānuku say sucking carbon out of the atmosphere using homegrown projects could be cheaper than buying carbon offsets overseas.

The court has finishing hearing a challenge to the Climate Change Commission. There were some heated moments (literally) and a series of dinner party-related analogies, involving baguettes and wine.

Offsets from planting and protecting trees are often used by companies wanting to claim they are carbon neutral or doing extra to reduce their impact, on top of cutting raw emissions at the source.

Westpac bank has set a target for cutting the emissions of the farms it lends to.

Promises made by governments to cut emissions have edged closer to the goal of keeping heating inside 1.5C, but will not get us there, a new report has found.