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The Minister for Climate Change congratulates recipients in the 2019 New Year’s Honours whose work is helping Aotearoa New Zealand understand and address climate change.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

New Zealand has signed onto the Birmingham Declaration on Zero Emissions Vehicles, committing to a zero emissions future for transport.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

At the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) in Katowice, European Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete and New Zealand Climate Change Minister James Shaw met and agreed to strengthen their bilateral cooperation on emissions trading systems.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

New Zealand will begin phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from 2020 as part of an international effort expected to avoid 0.5 degrees Celsius of global warming.

  • Hon David Parker
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change
  • Environment

The latest winners of a New Zealand and CCAFS-funded international PhD scholarship have been announced following a three-fold increase in applications.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change

The Ministers of Agriculture and Climate Change welcome the report of the Biological Emissions Reference Group (BERG), which has been released today.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change

Minister of Defence Ron Mark and Minister for Climate Change James Shaw have today released a Defence Assessment on the security implications of climate change.

  • Hon Ron Mark
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change
  • Defence

Business and the Government will jointly tackle climate change with the launch of New Zealand Green Investment Finance Ltd; a $100 million fund to reduce New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions, Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and Climate Change Minister, James Shaw, announced today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Prime Minister
  • Climate Change

The Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw, says New Zealand will put in every effort to ensure success for the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which gets underway in Katowice, Poland, tonight.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

Acting Associate Transport Minister James Shaw and Police Minister Stuart Nash today announced plans to trial speed camera warning signs and average (point-to-point) speed cameras in Auckland.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Police
  • Transport

The Government is keeping electric locomotives on the North Island Main Trunk Line running to help meet its long term emissions goals and boost the economy.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • State Owned Enterprises
  • Transport

Southland has set itself the ambitious goal of becoming a carbon neutral region which the Government is backing with a $190,000 grant from the Government’s Community Environment Fund.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Climate Change
  • Environment

The Minister for Climate Change is travelling to Poland to take part in preliminary talks around deciding the rules for meeting Paris Agreement obligations to reduce global greenhouse gases.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

A special report on global warming, released today, has laid out a strong case for countries to make every effort to limit temperature rise to 1.5o Celsius above pre-industrial levels, says the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

Data released by the Ministry of Transport today shows that growth in the number of larger, emission-intensive vehicles is undermining the gains from zero-emission electric vehicles (EVs).

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Transport

Analysis of the more than 15,000 submissions made about the Zero Carbon Bill provide a critical insight into New Zealanders’ thinking on our country’s path to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says the Minister for Climate Change.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

A new disability support system prototype starts today in the MidCentral DHB region, offering disabled people and whānau more flexibility and options, announced Minister for Disability Issues Carmel Sepuloni and Acting Associate Minister of Health James Shaw.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Disability Issues
  • Health

The Government has today announced plans to change the Funded Family Care policy, including its intention to repeal Part 4A of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 (the Act).

  • Hon Dr David Clark
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Health

The Government has introduced strict new safeguards on the use of surgical mesh that are expected to limit its use in urogynaecological surgery.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Health

The number of electric vehicles (EVs) registered on New Zealand roads officially has passed the 10,000 milestone.

  • Hon Dr Megan Woods
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Energy and Resources
  • Transport

Measures to modernise the framework New Zealand governments use to manage public finances took a step forward today, Finance Minister Grant Robertson said on Wednesday.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Finance

The Prime Minister’s former Chief Science Advisor has provided a valuable contribution to the discussion on how to handle agricultural greenhouse gas emissions with the release of his report on this issue, says the Minister for Climate Change.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

The Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw, is travelling to California tomorrow to present New Zealand’s plans for action on climate change and to gather the latest research and work elsewhere in the world to help us address the issue at home.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

The Productivity Commission’s final report on the opportunities and challenges for New Zealand becoming a low-emissions economy makes clear that action is needed now, says the Minister for Climate Change.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change