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At the same time, the country's climate is changing, with warmer annual temperatures and a greater proportion of rain falling during extreme events.
Improving freshwater quality, addressing agricultural emissions, tax and pests were key features at the rural issues debate in Waikato this week.
The solar firm’s liquidators have filed proceedings against four former directors, alleging reckless trading played a part in its $476m collapse The post SolarZero tradie welcomes move to hold directors accountable appeared first on Newsroom .
The weather may be starting to improve, but the climate in the job market is bleak.
At a rural issues debate on Wednesday night, Todd McClay defended New Zealand's commitment to achieve the net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050.
International relations experts are warning the case claiming New Zealand is not meeting EU trade agreement climate commitments could seriously impact the country's reputation.
The agriculture minister is disputing the Greens’ claims New Zealand is backtracking on international climate commitments.
The 56-foot boat was carrying 2000 litres of diesel and 60 litres of engine oil.
Pacific Island leaders pulled no punches on the climate crisis at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month.
Trade Minister Todd McClay told RNZ he was deeply disappointed to see New Zealand organisations joining with foreign actors to attack New Zealand.
Ministers are aghast that iwi and environmental groups would seek to rip up the Europe free trade deal in pursuit of climate accountability The post Seymour derides doctors as ‘activists with a grab bag of causes’ – EU trade complaint appeared first on Newsroom .
New Zealand is being accused of breaking its climate change promises.
When Manu Caddie was a boy growing up in Tauranga, he and his dad would go out collecting pipi and cockles on the mudflats. “That’s not something that we do now.” A gully on his parents’ eight hectare farm, where he’d play as a kid, is a stormwater runoff for a new subdivision; storms this year caused it to slip away, leaving houses beside it red-stickered. Today, he says, the water and the cli...
Diesel is used to power much of the country's industry and transport so any price increase can flow through to a wide range of areas including food.
