The Government should adopt an excess profits tax and use any revenue raised to help people make ends meet, following the rise in the Official Cash Rate today. 

Long overdue changes to the Crown Minerals Act are a welcome step in the right direction but the Government needs to go further to end the nonsensical search for fossil fuels.

The four big electricity companies should be required to reinvest massive profits into cutting both household bills and climate pollution, the Green Party says.  

The Minister for Transport can show climate leadership and consider only the lowest carbon ways of crossing Waitematā harbour.

Chris Luxon’s plan to reopen new gas projects in the middle of the climate crisis is about as irresponsible as it gets. 

The Green Party is once again calling on the Government to introduce an excess profits tax and use the money to support people, rather than relying on the good will of corporations. 

A drop in household income from rising bank interest rates further demonstrates the need for an excess profits tax, the Green Party says.

The Government’s announcement today that it will boost bus driver wages once again adopts a long held Green Party commitment on public transport. 

The Green Party has today put forward proposals to ensure large corporations profiteering from high inflation are taxed fairly and the money used to support people to make ends meet.

Fossil fuel corporations claiming gas as a suitable “transition” fuel is jeopardising New Zealand’s chances of achieving its net zero climate change targets, a new report from the International Energy Agency underscores.