The slower introduction of the full effects of the ETS is welcome but National’s Environment and Climate Change Policy announced today would impose too much additional cost on businesses and households, says BusinessNZ Chief Executive, Phil O’Reilly.
Slowing down the implementation of New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme would be a good move, says BusinessNZ.
Opinion piece by Phil O’Reilly, CEO BusinessNZ and John Carnegie, Manager Energy, Environment & Infrastructure
BusinessNZ is today releasing a report exposing reasons for exercising caution in making assessments about the relative stringency of Australia’s carbon pricing policy versus the NZ ETS.
New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme would be fit for purpose if there was a deep and liquid global carbon market, but the existence of such a market is increasingly unlikely in the medium term, says BusinessNZ.
Asking the right questions is vital in the review of NZ’s Emissions Trading Scheme (NZETS), says BusinessNZ Chief Executive Phil O’Reilly.
John Carnegie, BusinessNZ’s Manager for Energy, Environment & Infrastructure, is a member of the NZ Government’s official delegation to the international climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico where he reports on progress at the Cancun conference.
Opinion piece by Phil O’Reilly, CEO BusinessNZ on the Emissions Trading Scheme.
The Government has made it clear that we are going to press ahead with the emissions trading scheme.
BusinessNZ says in light of the Government’s clear decision to proceed with the emissions trading scheme, business should now constructively assist in making the scheme fit for purpose.
Brief overview of the key aspects of New Zealand’s revised emissions trading scheme (NZ ETS).
Analysis of Sustainability Council claims in ‘ETS: Bill to a Future Generation’.