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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

Mr President, tena koe. E nga rangatira, tena koutou.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

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

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

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

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

A helping hand for busy farmers is at the heart of a new service launched today to spread skills and knowledge across the primary sector, say Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor and Climate Change Minister James Shaw.

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

Forestry Minister Shane Jones and Minister for Climate Change James Shaw have today opened consultation on improvements to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS); New Zealand’s main tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change
  • Forestry

Tena koutou katoa and, because it’s Cook Islands language week, kia orana.

Welcome.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

I am very pleased to be in Fiji, and to be speaking with you here today at the University of the South Pacific.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

The Minister for Climate Change says he will be reinforcing that urgency and ambition are needed regarding action on climate change as a Pacific conference gets underway tomorrow in Fiji.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

The Government’s plan to introduce a new Zero Carbon Bill has brought thousands of people together to discuss how we address climate change.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

The Minister for Climate Change strongly welcomes the commitment by the new Climate Leaders Coalition of 60 businesses to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions and leading the way to the low-carbon economy.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change