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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.

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  • 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

The new Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) Board chairperson and deputy were announced by Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage today.

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Environment

Local government leadership is crucial to turn around New Zealand’s approach to waste, Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage says.

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Environment