Stories by Eloise Gibson

Nearly 150 wind, solar and geothermal projects have been announced - but just a fraction will be built by the end of 2025.

Researchers have ranked 21 big companies on their goals to cut carbon emissions.

A solution to dairy cows' methane-laced burps could be ready to sell to NZ farmers next year, but Australian farmers will get it first. Audio

No bidders turned up to the third auction of carbon credits of the year.

The government says it is on track to meet climate targets, but that is 'based on optimistic assumptions', Simon Upton says.

NZ Steel says the government's up to $140 million investment in its electric furnace should repay itself in about three years.

Government officials have been quietly exploring how much carbon dioxide could be saved if the country reflooded its peat soils.

Falling production from offshore gas fields, along with low lake levels, have been blamed for burning more coal and increasing New Zealand's emissions. So will the government's LNG plan help?

It uses 40 percent of the country's gas supply and the country needs a plan if it leaves, experts say. Audio

Rivers and lakes could be cleaned up and profits still generated for landowners by converting sheep and beef farms to pine trees, new research says.

The carbon price is expected to rise on news the government is slashing the number of tonnes of planet-heating emissions for sale by more than half.

The Australian-owned company was the biggest beneficiary of a government scheme to shield exporters from paying for their carbon emissions last year.

Sir Jonathon Porritt has also fired barbs at Air New Zealand saying "it's trashing its own reputation".

Researchers believe the same may be happening here too.

The computer will be able to run complex models much faster than anything available to researchers in New Zealand at the moment. Audio

The government has been pinning its plan to meet climate targets in farming on new technology coming to market.

The Climate Change Minister has been warned that demand for international offsets are likely to increase the closer it gets to 2030.

It's too late to meet the first emissions budget by planting more trees - and that won't work for meeting the second budget, either, the report says

A Treasury letter shows total funding for the Accelerating New Mitigations Programme was reduced by $48 million, while the government claims emissions research has been boosted under its watch.

A New Zealand manufacturer of EV chargers says it is switching its focus to the Australian market, partly because of New Zealand's plunging EV sales.

Industry experts are asking the building minister to consider what they say is an affordable way to prevent new homes overheating.

The government's focus on planting trees to solve climate change will avoid fixing the real problem, campaigners say.

The government's draft emissions reduction plan was published this morning and things are worse than a year ago. Audio

The changes made last year were the first significant upgrades to minimum requirements for housing in more than a decade.

Experts have not been able to quantify the risks of carbon dioxide reservoirs leaking into the environment, or the cost of cleaning up if they do.