{"id":82441,"date":"2025-10-16T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82441\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:44:06","slug":"air-new-zealands-first-carbon-credit-purchase-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82441\/","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand&#8217;s First Carbon Credit Purchase Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air New Zealand has made its first major carbon credit purchase, acquiring 8,000 tonnes of carbon removal credits from native forest projects, a cautious step into a market it had long resisted.<\/p>\n<p>The credits were purchased through a partnership with the local firm My Native Forest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kiri Hannifin, Air New Zealand\u2019s chief sustainability and corporate affairs officer, said that the airline had \u201cwaited a long time\u201d to make its first purchase because of concerns over the credibility of many carbon credit schemes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a lot of cynicism raised around some of the quality of carbon removal schemes around the world,\u201d she told Skift. \u201cIf the credits aren\u2019t seen to be a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand has made its first major carbon credit purchase, acquiring 8,000 tonnes of carbon removal credits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9293,51800,390,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-82441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-air-new-zealand","tag-carbon-credits","tag-climate-change","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82441","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=82441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}