The Government has approved the drafting of regulations to support a nationwide rural recycling scheme covering agrichemicals and plastic farm waste.

The Climate Change Commission has released the case study “Ā Te Taitokerau urutau i ngā āhuarangi – Responding to a changing climate in Te Taitokerau/Northland.”

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has reviewed how the Land Use Capability (LUC) system is being used in a regulatory context.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has written to the Minister of Climate Change expressing concern with passing amendments to the Climate Change Response Act under urgency.

The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) is pleased to see that the Government is no longer pursuing several terrible proposed amendments to the Fast-track Approvals Act. It released an Amendment Paper to the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill yesterday which strikes through most of the bad ideas.

The introduction of the Natural Environment Bill and Planning Bill marks an abrupt end to more than three decades of integrated environmental management under the RMA.

The wait is over and the details are out.  Today Minister Chris Bishop and Under-Secretary Simon Court have introduced the signalled two new Bills: the Planning Bill and the Natural Environment Bill.

The Government has announced New Zealand’s first-ever national wastewater environmental performance standards developed by the Water Services Authority – Taumata Arowai.

Updated projections suggest New Zealand is still ‘on track’ to meet the Government Target to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment marked 50 years of environmental studies at Lincoln University in November 2025 by giving an address on “What we don’t know about the state of New Zealand’s environment – and does it matter?”

Fast-track is ramping up, and the Environmental Defence Society has published a special update on their recent fast-track work.

MfE has published a report establishing Aotearoa New Zealand’s first baseline measure of food loss and waste.