Stories by Eloise Gibson

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.

New Zealand could find itself in breach of its free trade deal with Europe if it walks back its commitments under the Paris Agreement.

The Human Rights Commission has told the Court of Appeal that climate change poses serious human rights issues.

Germany's top climate diplomat says reopening New Zealand to offshore oil and gas exploration would go against science and economics.

A study by two New Zealand researchers has found the global costs of climate change are being underestimated by billions.

How did New Zealand come to invest $29m in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan that will not improve New Zealand's methane estimates?

Parliament's environment commissioner Simon Upton has accused farming groups of wrongly claiming they had new science on methane emissions.

Christopher Luxon's pre-election promise that New Zealand's climate targets were not on the table may be about to be tested.

New Zealand's top 10 emitters still make more than half the country's greenhouse gases, with Fonterra taking out the top spot for the third year running, followed by the three biggest petrol…

Bigger, heavier 'rivers in the sky' - like the atmospheric river that brought record rainfall to Auckland in January - are on the cards as the planet heats, the latest report on Aotearoa's climate…

Voters may be focused on the cost of living, but climate groups say failing to look at climate policies will raise household bills as well.

An ambitious new project aims to re-plant and restore at least 2.1 million hectares of native forest over the next 10 years.

Marine and ice specialists from top research outfits gathered at an emergency summit in Wellington on Tuesday to discuss record low sea ice in Antarctica this year, which they described as "deeply…

An economist is calling for a new law requiring the next government to report the climate impacts of the Budget.

The ACT Party has raised the possibility it would renege on New Zealand's international climate pledge under the Paris Agreement.

The government has delayed its strategy to help struggling households manage the costs of shifting to a low carbon economy. A critic says there's "no justification" for doing so.

While attention is focused on National's $500 million-a-year hole, another has opened up in plain sight - and it's Labour's problem, too.