Climate Crisis 247. New Zealand Lawsuit Attacks On Controversial Emissions Strategy. Posted: June 13, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7 ...

Climate lawyers are taking the New Zealand government to court, alleging its plan to reduce planet-heating pollution contains “glaring holes,” which will have “huge consequences for our ...

Climate activist Mike Smith, a Māori elder in Aotearoa (New Zealand), sued seven of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the country to publicly admit that they caused a public nuisance and ...

Smith’s remedy – net-zero emissions by 2030 – is inconsistent with New Zealand’s law of net-zero by 2050. “Private litigation against a small subset of emitters, requiring them to comply with ...

New Zealand is home to 10 million cows and 26 million sheep. To reach its climate goals, the country must curb potent methane emissions from animal farming, using science and policy.

At the time, Watts said New Zealand “remained committed to the global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees” and that the government was on track to meet its emissions budgets up until 2030 ...