Eloise Gibson

相当多插电式混动车主希望通过改装车来规避RUC征费新规，但检测机构表示目前没有接到主管部门的明确通知。

Plug-in hybrid electric car owners are looking for ways to get out of the new charges.

Repealing the ban on oil and gas exploration may not succeed at extending the future of oil and gas in New Zealand, a briefing to Energy Minister Simeon Brown says.

Aotearoa is not on track to meet its emissions targets, incoming minister Simon Watts has been told.

Scientists involved in an ambitious attempt to drill deep into the rock and mud below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet say their efforts got "tantalisingly close".

Analysis - An updated estimate shows just 1 percent of New Zealand's soil is releasing between 5 and 7 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

It comes as two reports suggest gas prices will jump significantly in the next decade.

Transport Minister Simeon Brown says the Clean Car Discount was never self-financing, and rescuing the subsidy scheme would have cost more than it generated in benefits.

Before you click that online order, have a think about what all these door-to-door deliveries are doing to the climate. It may be worse than you think.

The advice was never officially presented because the new government suspended the need for regulatory impact statements for undoing Labour-era policies.

专家计算，某些特定车型的燃油车版本在收费新规下将比电动版本支出更低；综合其他不利因素，电动车市场或受到明显冲击。

Owners of a fully electric vehicle could end up paying twice as much per kilometre as someone with a petrol car, a climate and energy expert says.

The main transporter of jet fuel to Auckland Airport is predicting big growth in international flights.

The Transport Minister says advice shows scrapping EV payments won't derail the country from meeting its first carbon budget, which runs from 2022-2025.

Analysis - The wording was filled with what small Pacific nations described as a "litany of loopholes", Eloise Gibson explains.

New Zealand's climate change minister says he and major countries are still fighting for a stronger deal after a controversial draft at COP28. Audio

New Zealand isn't on track to meet its climate targets, according to a new review, and it could end up costing the government millions making up the shortfall.

A climate expert attending his fourth world climate summit says New Zealand has been unusually quiet this year.

The world's top agriculture body has presented a blueprint for how to get livestock emissions down at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai.

Forestry owners hit by devastating cyclones this year have been given extra time to replant so they won't have to repay millions of dollars in carbon credits.

Aotearoa was one of only a few OECD countries missing from the initial list of 118 signatories to the pledge, but a spokesperson for the Climate Change Minister has confirmed NZ is supporting it.

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.