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Thank you for the opportunity to address this very important workshop.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Chair Of The Seventh Session Of The Commission On Sustainable Development

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Environment Minister Simon Upton will be aiming for action-oriented decisions when he chairs the seventh session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) in New York next A

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Environment Minister Simon Upton today released the Government's proposed amendments to the Resource Management Act, describing them as "realistic and sensible improvements".

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Environment Minister Simon Upton said today that the Action for Community and Environment (ACE) were being misleading in their claim that the submission time on the RMA review has been shortened.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"The Government has funded a five year programme to tell us more about the health, environmental and agricultural risks related to water quality," the Honourable Simon Upton, Minister for the Envir

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Research findings on organochlorine contaminant levels in New Zealand soil, rivers, estuaries, air, food and in the dietary intake of New Zealanders were released today by the Minister for the Env

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, today released the Report of his Reference Group on the Resource Management Act.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"For at least the last eight months I have been discussing the review of the Resource Management Act around the country and through my website ( www.arcadia.co.nz and select EnviroNet)," the Minist

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The ozone layer will benefit from a decision by the New Zealand government to export ozone depleting halons for destruction offshore.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"The Bay of Plenty's environment report, Postcards from the Bay, provides tangible proof of what local government and the RMA can achieve in terms of administrative and environmental performance wh

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment has released a technical paper on the design of a domestic emissions trading regime to promote further discussion on the development of New Zealand's greenhouse gas

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"Water quality in popular coastal playgrounds will be safeguarded by new Marine Pollution Regulations that prohibit dumping of garbage and controls sewage discharges from boats," the Minister for t

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Associate Minister for the Environment, Deborah Morris, has expressed disappointment that the annual KPMG awards revealed yet again that there has been little improvement in environmental reporting

  • Deborah Morris
  • Environment

"New Zealand's environment will be in safer hands from tomorrow when the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act, 1996, comes into effect for New Organisms", the Minister for the Environment, Ho

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"Wellington City Council's promise to pay up if it can't meet deadlines for handling resource consent applications is exactly the kind of response the Government had been hoping for," Simon Upton,

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"Time and money wasted through poor practice in Resource Management is time and money not available for improved environmental management".

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

I am pleased to welcome you to what I'm sure will be a practical and informative three days.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"New Zealand's Permanent Representative in New York signed the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on behalf of the Government last night", Hon Simon Upton,

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand's Environment Minister Simon Upton today welcomed a proposal by the International Petroleum Exchange to establish a traded market for CO2 emissions, in response to a challenge to London

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

CHRISTCHURCH CONVENTION CENTRE

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"Owen McShane's 'Think Piece', released today, will initiate three months' serious debate on the thorny issue of land use controls and the scope of the RMA", the Minister for the Environment, Hon S

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, will chair a meeting of Environment Ministers from OECD countries in Paris on 1 -3 April.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, is preparing to initiate a debate on the range of activities currently controlled by the Resource Management Act.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment