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Speech at the Launch of the Resource Management Reform Synthesis Report
- Hon David Parker
- Environment
Address to the National Freshwater Conference
Monday 11 February 2019, Te Wharewaka o Poneke, 2 Taranaki St, Wellington
- Hon David Parker
- Environment
Associate Minister for the Environment, Eugenie Sage has today confirmed retailers will no longer be able to sell or give away single-use plastic shopping bags from 1 July 2019, after Cabinet agreed to the proposed regulations for a mandatory nationwide phase out of these bags.
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
New Zealand will begin phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from 2020 as part of an international effort expected to avoid 0.5 degrees Celsius of global warming.
- Hon David Parker
- Hon James Shaw
- Climate Change
- Environment
A new report out today shows that the Government is on the right track to tackle our waste problem, Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage says.
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
Associate Minister for the Environment, Eugenie Sage today confirmed the mandatory phase out of single-use plastic shopping bags in New Zealand, to come into effect around the middle of next year.
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
A two stage process to improve the resource management system was announced today by Environment Minister David Parker.
- Hon David Parker
- Environment
A new report released today by an independent Urban Water Working Group is a great step toward integrating urban and infrastructure design with improvements in environmental, social and cultural wellbeing, said the Associate Minister for the Environment, Hon Nanaia Mahuta.
- Hon Nanaia Mahuta
- Environment
New Zealand has joined an international pledge to cut plastic wastes from our economy and environment, Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage announced today.
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
A new report recommending improvements to biodiversity management will build on communities’ good work to protect our biodiversity, says Associate Minister for the Environment, Hon Nanaia Mahuta.
- Hon Nanaia Mahuta
- Environment
Southland has set itself the ambitious goal of becoming a carbon neutral region which the Government is backing with a $190,000 grant from the Government’s Community Environment Fund.
- Hon James Shaw
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Climate Change
- Environment
Auckland-based business Asona is getting $185,000 from the Waste Minimisation Fund to help develop a recycling system for acoustic ceiling panels, Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage announced today.
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
The state of New Zealand’s air is generally good says the Associate Minister for the Environment, Hon Nanaia Mahuta after the release of a new report on our air this morning.
- Hon Nanaia Mahuta
- Environment
The Government today is announcing its next steps to improve the state of our waterways, promising a noticeable improvement in water quality within five years.
- Hon David Parker
- Environment
Speech notes for Essential Freshwater launch.
E nga mana
- Hon David Parker
- Environment
The Environment Court has today granted the resource consent for the 36th America's Cup bases in Auckland and the associated infrastructure and activities.
- Hon David Parker
- Economic Development
- Environment
Submissions are rolling in from across New Zealand on the Government’s proposed phase-out of single-use plastic shopping bags, with more than 4,000 received so far.
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
New Zealand’s pepeketua/native frog species remain in trouble, according to the latest report on the conservation status of New Zealand’s amphibian species.
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
More than $3 million of funding will help divert 40,000 tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from landfills in Auckland every year.
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage has announced a programme of work to take action on New Zealand’s long-neglected waste problems.
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
Single-use plastic shopping bags will be phased out over the next year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage announced today.
- Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Environment
The Government is establishing a new group to broaden the conversation with Māori on freshwater.
- Hon David Parker
- Environment
An address to the Environmental Defence Society annual conference
Auckland, 1 August 2018
- Hon David Parker
- Environment
New guidelines released today by Environment Minister David Parker are intended to assist councils in their monitoring, compliance and enforcement duties under the Resource Management Act.
- Hon David Parker
- Environment