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This is a voluntary action taken by the Chinese government based on its own national conditions and is a major contribution to the global effort in tackling climate change," the State Council said in a statement quoted by the Xinhua...

The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme requires businesses to pay for the carbon they emit and that means we will all have to pay, but how much?...Dr Frank Jotzo, the deputy director of the ANU's Climate Change Institute and economics adviser...

They are ugly, lumpy and cantankerous. They are smelling up the place and spoiling the water. They are rude and often go on a rampage. They drink too much (or too little)! They're "foreigners" and over-populate the place. Am I...

Maori Party will stand by ETS deal 25/11/2009 12:32:02 The Maori Party's co-vice president Te Orohi Paul is denying suggestions it could backtrack on its ETS support deal with National > Read More Frontage of chartered accountants' firm in Patea...

The ambitious policy statement calls for a 45 per cent cut in carbon intensity by the year 2020, a target that received a positive reaction on Friday. Carbon intensity does not measure the actual amount of greenhouse gas emissions; it...

00 27/11/2009 A dramatic drop in the estimated possum population is good news for native birds. New research shows possum numbers have plummeted from between 60 and 70 million during the 1980s, to about 30 million.

Horizons Regional Council is astonished over claims the Manawatu River is the one of the most polluted in the Western world. Research by the Cawthron Institute has found the Manawatu tops a new pollution measurement of 300 rivers and streams...

Spicers also needs to set out an ambitious time bound plan to source environmentally and socially responsible virgin fibre that can be guaranteed through credible independent certification to the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council.” Greenpeace yesterday ended a 27-hour...