Wealthy businessman and former Auckland Mayor Dick Hubbard is endorsing Labour.

What do political parties propose to do about combating climate change?

What policies are parties proposing to manage and protect our natural resources?

An East Coast study could make a lucrative, climate-friendly case for more native forest.

COMMENT: Business has a key role to play in reducing climate change, writes Karen Silk.

Proposed changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme "final nail in the coffin", expert says.

Celebrities, scientists, doctors and businesspeople join a new push for climate action.

Dairy farmers won't have to pay for their climate pollution yet, the Govt says.

Emissions trading scheme isn't fit for purpose.

Planting more native forest could be a cash-saver for big-emitting companies, report says.

Cathay Pacific has taken a stake in a company producing bio fuel out of city waste.

NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.

Gareth Morgan's The Opportunities Party would ban subsidies on fossil fuels, increase the price of carbon and overhaul energy efficiency efforts under a climate change policy launched this evening.

A leading climate scientist has welcomed a new 20-year Government "roadmap" that singles out climate change as an environmental research priority for New Zealand.

COMMENT: The sooner we take action, the lower the cost will be and the less damage we will pass on to future generations.

New Zealand is being accused of cheating to fulfil its international climate change obligations.

Many suspect the design of ETS, with no price floor and emissions cap, was never intended to make a difference to our climate changing emissions.

Limiting the conversation to short-term costs avoids dealing with the much greater long-term consequences, writes Tim Naish.

The Govt has confirmed that NZ emitters with obligations under the emissions trading scheme will only be able to use internationally traded Kyoto Protocol emissions units to meet their ETS obligations until May 2015.

The Government has adopted a soft unilateral target for reducing carbon emissions by 2020, but Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said a future Government might lift it, should progress towards an international agreement post-2020 warrant it.

The Government's climate change policy is a shambles and a disgrace, writes Brian Fallow. "Unless, that is, you are happy for the costs of the inevitable adjustment to a low-carbon future to be needlessly increased."

As Australia is renewing its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, New Zealand has backed off, leaving Greenpeace to label the move embarrassing.

A crash in the price of carbon credits could force landowners who invested in new forests to sell their land, an analyst says.

The Government is set to put the emissions trading scheme into an induced coma - not dead, but not able to accomplish much, writes Brian Fallow.