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Business NZ: problem with trading scheme design

Business has a problem - not with an emissions trading scheme, but with the design of the one currently proposed for New Zealand.

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GHGPC: Emissions Trading - at what cost?

In a presentation to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee hearing submissions on the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill, the Greenhouse Policy coalition,...

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ETS bill submissions online

The Parliamentary Servicee now has copies of all publicly available submissions on the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill available online here

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Select Committee interim report on emissions trading bill

The Finance and Expenditure Select Committee has issued an 18-page interim report on the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Prefernece) bill.

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Forum heads to the select committee

A high-powered group of business and community leaders who back an emissions trading scheme will appear before the finance and expenditure select committee today to answer questions from MPs.

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Forum assures committee: parliamentary process is parliamentary process

The Government-appointed multi-sector Leadership Forum on Climate Change is not working as an alternative to the select committee process - and has told the select committee considering the emissions...

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Don't rush the ETS - Field

Independent MP Taito Phillip Field is unlikely to support the Government's emissions trading scheme, telling Carbon News that he fears it could damage the economy and that he doesn't believe it needs...

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ETS back in Parliament

The emissions trading scheme is back before Parliament, with new proposals to widen the allocation of free credits and to allow lower-emitters into the scheme.

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ETS amendments tinkering around the edges for forestry sector

Forest owners will take little comfort from proposed amendments to the Climate Change (Emissions Tradings and Renewable Preference) Bill which were reported back from the finance and expenditure...

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Peters key as Clark counts ETS heads and comes up one short

Inter-party lobbying has begun in earnest on the emissions trading scheme, with National and Labour wooing the minor parties and a planned meeting between the Greens and New Zealand First cancelled as...

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Environment Commissioner supports amended ETS bill

New Zealand must implement an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), says Dr Jan Wright, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. "It's the most efficient way for New Zealand to adjust to a...

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Maori Party against ETS bill: concern over subsidies, impacts on Maori land...

The Maori Party says in EST bill debate that it is "opposed to the concept of paying the polluters; of rewarding the corporate lobbyists with huge exemptions; and the very nature of trading rather than...

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Big emitters win more time to put ETS review case

The closing date for submissions on the emissions trading scheme review has been extended because a group representing some of New Zealand's largest companies realised it wasn't going to be heard,...

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ETS submissions close, but numbers are secret

Submisisons on the review of the emissions trading scheme have closed - but just how many there are is still under wraps.

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Minister backs ETS review climate change stand

The emissions trading scheme review is standing by its decision not to hear debate about the validity of climate change science - and has the backing of Climate Change Minister Nick Smith.

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Energy leader calls for carbon tax solution

New Zealand's largest domestically owned and operated energy company is calling for the government to postpone the emissions trading scheme and reconsider a carbon tax.

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ETS hearings timetable out today

Submitters to the ETS review committee should know later today the timetable for submission hearings.

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ETS review hearings start on Thursday

The ETS review committee will begin hearing submissions on Thursday morning, with the list of those who will be presenting being provided to committee members tonight.

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Concrete plant swings on ETS, says manufacturer

The axe could fall on plans for a major new concrete manufacturing plant if the emissions trading scheme review committee does not heed industry warnings.

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HFCs clampdown could backfire, company warns

Clamping down on the so-called "bad boys" of human-induced climate change - hydroflourocarbons (HFCs) - in the emissions trading scheme could backfire and actually lead to increased emissions, warns an...

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Energy leaders have big day out at ETS hearings

The energy sector gets its chance to be heard by the ETS review committee this morning.

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Cross-party pact vital for ETS, says Vector

A strong cross-party agreement on durable climate change policy is the single most important thing that the emissions trading scheme review committee must deliver, the committee is being told this...

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Fifty years of work under threat, says Oxfam

Climate change could reverse all the international development work of the past 50 years, the emissions trading scheme review committee heard yesterday.

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Gull wants fixed carbon price after ETS

Independent oil company Gull has asked the emissions trading scheme review committee to set the price of carbon for at least the first 18 months after the liquid fuel sector enters the ETS.

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ETS should be suspended, says coalition

Greenhouse Policy Coalition executive director Catherine Beard, representing the energy-intensive sector on climate change issues, is calling on the select committee reviewing the emissions trading...

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Farming groups split on need for ETS

Federated Farmers continued its call for the emissions trading scheme to be scrapped when it appeared before the emission trading scheme review committee yesterday -  but not everyone in the...

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ETS reviewers eye June date for report

The emissions trading scheme review committee could report back to Parliament by the end of next month.

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ETS review body eyes Government line

The emissions trading scheme review committee is keeping quiet about when it will release its findings - but is aligning with the Government behind the scenes.

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Go online and have your say on the ETS

Parliament is calling for submissions on changes to the emissions trading scheme - and for the first time they can be made online.

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Aussie farmers out of ETS 'faster than a rat up a drainpipe'

As predicted by Federated Farmers two weeks ago, Australia's Federal Government yesterday opted to permanently exclude farmers from its emissions trading scheme.

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Greens: ETS something worth swearing about

Revelations that Climate Change Minister Nick Smith's proposed changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme are going to cost taxpayers an extra $105 billion is something really worth swearing about, Dr...

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Goff slams Government's billions blunder

The shambolic process around the Government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme has been exposed by a $50 billion blunder by National, Labour Leader Phil Goff said today.

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ETS bill has October deadline

The Government expects to have its changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme through the select committee and back into Parliament by October 17.

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NZ lags badly in marine protection

Australia is beating us on marine protection.

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Hope from Europe

The NZU market finished the week on a subdued note, as selling interest dries up for now. OMFinancial reports:

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