James Shaw

The Climate Change Minister has tasked the government's independent advisor on climate change with reviewing whether New Zealand's international target is ambitious enough. New Zealand has committed… Audio

The Government's being accused of 'virtue-signalling' after banning KiwiSaver default funds from investing in fossil fuel companies.

A number of changes will be made to how the default funds are run… Audio

When Parliament finally begins each year it goes off with a bang, and in an election year moreso. In the first debate the parties demoed their election messages. They were selling both sunflowers… Audio

A Christmas tradition for Morning Report is to bring you season's greetings from some of the politicians we talk to during the year.

Here is the co-leader of the Green Party and the Minister for… Audio

Green Party co-leader and Climate Change Minister James Shaw fills us in on what's been happening at the 25th Conference of Parties in Madrid. Audio

A group of lawyers are striving to win over the climate change sceptics who dismiss the young climate change activists pushing for radical action.

A new organisation, Lawyers for Climate Action will… Audio

The Zero Carbon Bill, which will shape how the country prepares and adapts to climate change, has passed through its final reading in Parliament with unanimous support.

But whether it will survive in… Audio

Local councils are under increasing pressure as they work to manage the impacts of climate change, and cope with new layers of regulation and oversight that's being put on them by the government… Audio

The night New Zealand First formed a Government with Labour and the Greens, its leader Winston Peters quoted the song 'you can't always get what you want'. Almost two years later all three parties… Audio

Green Party's James Shaw talks to political reporter Jo Moir about being in government and looking ahead to the 2020 election. Audio

In the wake of the 2019 census botch-up, there are concerns it could take decades for the public to regain trust in statistics. Statistics Minister James Shaw is allaying those fears, saying officials… Audio

The Green Party, in holding up the coalition government, has tasted real power - but some of the party's grass roots members don't like what's being done with it.  Audio

Coverage of political party conferences tends to focus on the leaders who we see all the time in the news - and ignore the party members who gather once a year to be heard. But at the Green… Audio

The Green Party holds its annual conference this weekend - but media will be reduced to covering just two public speeches and what's called a World Cafe event.

The World Cafe is a speed dating type… Audio

It's a new technology that's been described as the biggest thing since the internet, and advocates say it's now or never for New Zealand to get on-board. Blockchain was created for the controversial… Audio

This afternoon the Greens tweeted a video that took aim at the National Party leader', by making fun of his distinctive accent, and his low polling. Video, Audio