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11 小时之前 · Tiwai Point aluminium smelter’s operator has reached out to power generators to seek more renewable energy to reopen the smelter’s closed fourth potline. Potline four, smaller than the smelter’s three other potlines, was shut down in …

2025年1月27日 · However, it indicated last year it was preparing a range of “trade-offs and reprioritisations” as part of a project to manage cost and demand pressures in the coming years.. As part of the Government’s foreign policy “reset”, officials have been asked to significantly increase their focus and resources for South East Asia, South Asia and North Asia, as …

4 天之前 · Due to new accounting decisions by the Government, however, the numbers aren’t perfectly comparable. New Zealand’s current NDC is in fact an emissions budget – in addition to aiming for 50 percent lower emissions by 2030, it seeks to achieve a 41 percent reduction in emissions across the full decade of the 2020s.

2025年1月14日 · The Government's planned repeal of the oil and gas ban has contributed to New Zealand's plummet in a global climate policy ranking. Photo: Getty Images Two key events in February will set the direction of New Zealand’s clean, green reputation for the rest of the year – and perhaps even many ...

2024年12月6日 · Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy ask if the national and international mood on dealing with climate change is enabling National, Act and NZ First to give up, even if just a …

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Grand coalition would head off ‘extreme politics’ Comment: Though historical differences between National and Labour are strong and enduring, the policy differences are less so

2024年11月28日 · NZGIF’s deal pulling together $365m of public and private money to finance New Zealand’s solar energy rollout had won the IFLR Asia-Pacific Deal of the Year award earlier this year – but now the sun’s gone behind a cloud.