{"id":424832,"date":"2026-05-13T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/424832\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:52:08","slug":"govt-takes-one-step-forward-three-steps-back-on-environment-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/424832\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt takes one step forward, three steps back on environment policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes from some environmentalists that the Government may have turned a corner on its treatment of climate and nature on Monday will have been dashed by a one-two-three punch of legislative moves decried as regressive across Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard, an Act MP and former Federated Farmers president, accomplished the unlikely with his announcement of Government support for a voluntary carbon and nature market at the start of the week. Both the Feds and Forest &amp; Bird released statements within minutes of one another, praising the move.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSubscribe to continue reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center newspack-sign-in\" style=\"font-size:13px\">Already have an account? <a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign In<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited access Newsroom Pro articles<\/p>\n<p>Bonus subscription for a friend or family member<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive subscriber-only emails <\/p>\n<p>Access to post and read comments on articles<\/p>\n<p>A daily morning email of news and insights curated by Newsroom Pro editorial team<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/newsroom-pro-subscription\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corporate subscriptions also available<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/author\/marc-daalder\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marc Daalder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/marc-daalder.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarc Daalder is a senior political reporter at Newsroom. He covers climate change, health, energy and violent extremism.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/author\/marc-daalder\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Marc Daalder\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hopes from some environmentalists that the Government may have turned a corner on its treatment of climate and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[390,273,111,43,7439,139,69,135,8780,147,11219],"class_list":["post-424832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newsroom-pro","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics","tag-premium","tag-science","tag-sustainable-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}