Carbon Farming
ETS auction wipes millions of credits at year-end
Uncertainty still affecting Emissions Trading Scheme.
Carbon farming needs long-term rules
If the rules change every three years, forestry policy will simply lurch from crisis to crisis, Keith Woodford says.
Big carbon farming decisions lie ahead
While the politics plays out, new forest plantings are grinding to a halt, Keith Woodford says.
New AI tool to help ease forestry management
A new ‘tree-counting’ tool uses the click of a button to inventory plantation stocks.
Dairy farmers drop cows for trees as pathway to mixed land use
Total earnings are up 33%, and greenhouse gases emissions down by a third.
Aussies could give forest carbon a boost
Forestry initiatives and political signals add to sector’s appeal while NZ counterpart droops.
ETS fees sting foresters into action
Commerical forestry launches High Court action against proposed new fee structure.
EU to crack down on carbon offset greenwashing
Generic environmental labelling banned along with claims based on emissions offsetting.
Foreign forestry buyers snapped up 450,000 ha before regs changed
Trend appears to be reversing since rules were tightened.
Forestry takes aim at ‘ideological crusade’
Constant policy tinkering runs counter to benefits of carbon forestry.
NZ needs ‘700,000ha of new trees, starting now’
‘We’re running out of time,’ climate change minister warns.
Costly carbon crunch coming for NZ
Exports will suffer if NZ fails to meet its Paris targets – and it can’t do so solely by domestic measures.
Govt seeks to enforce fair trading in carbon market
Cabinet approves path to greater regulation of market for NZUs.
National says it would block forestry conversions for three years
Opposition party would put moratorium on high-quality land going into the ETS, spokesperson says.
NZ is being left behind in carbon scramble
Country moving too slowly in nailing down offshore carbon credit options, experts say.
Govt changes tack on ETS settings
Rapid turnaround as cabinet agrees to take CCC’s advice.
CarbonZ launches its own biodiversity credit scheme
Credits are for pest control on privately owned land.
Foreign sales of 2000-plus hectares get nod
Four farms sold to forestry sneak in prior to government changing the assessment criteria.
ETS policy shifts spook forestry investors
Following further ETS uncertainty, forestry plantings are set to dry up.
Carbon market beset by chaos and confusion
Lack of certainty may cut forest planting and emissions mitigation.
ETS uncertainty further erodes carbon prices
NZU prices fall below $50 mark for first time.
Reforms threaten to complicate ETS
Forestry and carbon players warn against clouding the market.
ETS reforms come with costs and controversy
Discussion document details tough choices ahead for New Zealand.
Govt puts land-use calls in council hands
Local authorities get more power to block controversial forestry decisions.
Scion shines spotlight on planting of non-pine exotics at Fieldays
The ‘A New Zealand Guide to Growing Alternative Exotic Forest Species’ booklet outlines pathway to forestation beyond pines.
‘Little chance’ of carbon auction clearing
Several reasons for traders to be shy about taking part in this week’s auction.
Carbon fund takes 20% hit as prices collapse
Salt feels sting of controversial cabinet moves.
Carbon answers can come with caveats
Farmers Weekly unpacks the carbon sequestration implications of various on-farm tree scenarios.
Voluntary carbon options open up
Other positive aspects of forestation on farms should also be recognised, say those in field.
Farm tree planting a critical response for offsetting
If a tree is planted on a farm and no one is there to fence it, does it still sequester carbon? We unpack additionality, plantings and sequestration plans and help answer questions arising from these scenarios.
Whiplash from backtracking on carbon regs
New fees will make it more challenging for landowners to register native forests, says CarbonCrop CEO Jo Blundell.
CCC advice prompts slight carbon price bounce
Still a long way to go, though, to restore confidence in a shattered market.
NZ’s carbon auction shows first signs of volatility
Clearing price fails to meet the confidential reserve price, resulting in no winning bids.
Dire warnings over carbon forests’ impact
Cabinet urged not to leave policy unchanged.
Carbon prices drop at last auction of year
Uncertainty about policy, settings affect market.
Govt mulls competing in carbon trading
The value of NZUs traded over their platforms is understood to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
It’s not just trees scaring the sheep away
Slide in drystock numbers shows bigger wheels are turning.
ETS logjam ‘may cost landowners millions’
Four-fold increase in applications blamed for delay.
Thousands of hectares retired in Waikato
Millions of plantings also help improve water quality.
PCE does sums on methane offset forestry
How many trees would compensate for one cow’s lifetime of methane?
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