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[Address to Agribusiness and Food Congress, Christchurch Convention Centre]

I hope you haven’t yet had your fill of climate change and genetic modification today, because that’s what I’m going to talk about.

[Address to Ninth Annual Resource Management Law Assoc Conference, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington.]

On Tuesday the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released internationally.

The voluntary moratorium on applications for release and field testing of genetically modified organisms will be extended to October 31, Environment Minister, Marian Hobbs and Science Minister, Pete Hodgson, announced today.

[Address to Ministry of Research, Science and Technology hui - Whaia te Ara Putaiao o Aotearoa - Wellington]

The Government is backing New Zealand's innovators with a $100 million seed capital investment fund.

The New Zealand Venture Investment Fund is being launched to finance business start-ups, in partnership with private sector venture capital.

Research and development, not taxation, offers the best prospects for reducing methane emissions from sheep and cattle, says Pete Hodgson, Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change.

The statistical report on New Zealand biotechnology released today is encouraging confirmation of the strength of the sector, says Research, Science and Technology Minister Pete Hodgson.

[Address to Stout Research Centre Seminar, Victoria University of Wellington]

Thank you, to the Stout Centre, for the invitation to speak today.

[Opening of the CIB World Building Congress, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington]

I'm here today on behalf of the Prime Minster, who couldn't make it but wishes you well.

Science Minister Pete Hodgson today welcomed a major new investment in New Zealand's science infrastructure by the Earthquake Commission (EQC).

(Address to The R&D Management Conference)

The topic of this conference, "the leveraging of research and technology", is of great interest to this Government.

Every now and then, politics gives you a treat to keep you going.

I got one last week, when I went to Antarctica. It's an incredible place, not many people get to go there and I feel really, really lucky to have made it.