Nature & Environment

Farmers say forcibly reducing herd sizes to achieve climate goals could hurt New Zealand's agricultural success and end up causing more emissions.

The Climate Change Commission says cow and sheep… Audio

The government is being warned those living in poverty will bear the brunt of the Climate Change Commission's plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

The Commission has released its roadmap for the… Audio

The Climate Change Commission's final report spells out a plan for a "cleaner future" - including phasing out coal boilers by 2037.

But to fully de-carbonise the country's energy and industrial… Audio

The Climate Commission has recommended iwi, hapū and Māori determine their own contribution to reducing national emissions - and set their own targets - as part of the newly released report laying out… Audio

The Climate Change Commission recommended today in its final report on climate change targets that nearly all cars imported by 2035 must be electric. Karyn Hay talks to the Motor Trade Association's… Audio

Professor Dave Frame is Director of the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute at Victoria University.

He says transport emissions are on the way up and we need to be targeting motorists. Video, Audio

The Climate Commission has stressed a need for the country to work harder to significantly reduce emissions - but how it's achieved has divided Parliament.

The commission has released its final… Audio

The government should pay people to send their old petrol cars to the scrap heap, according to the Motor Trade Association.

Transport belches out nearly half of New Zealand's carbon emissions. The… Video, Audio

The Climate Change Commission has urged the government to get tough on the way New Zealanders live and work, in its final advice for reducing emissions, presented to Parliament.

But critics have… Audio

Our Changing World looks at how careers are changing for science graduates.

Can a plant biologist build a space craft? Will a physics graduate end up designing systems to play the stock market?

Katy… Audio

The government has been told it needs to urgently and fundamentally improve its response to climate change. The Climate Change Commission has released its final report - calling for an end to short-… Audio

The Climate Change Comission has set out its final plan for how the country can cut emissions. Audio

The government has received its final advice from the Climate Change Commission - which sets the pathway for Aotearoa to slash emissions and become carbon neutral by 2050. The Commission says New… Audio

Turtles are the fascination of author Louise Pryke, lecturer and honorary research associate at the University of Sydney's Department of Classics and Ancient History. Among the most endangered groups… Audio