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Submission on the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill cover

Submission: The Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill

This submission in response to the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill is made by The New Zealand Initiative (the Initiative), a Wellington-based think tank supported primarily by major New Zealand businesses. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich
Dr Eric Crampton
Dr Bryce Wilkinson
Roger Partridge
Submission
29 March, 2023
NZ Initiative Submission NBEA and SPA combined Page 01

Submission: The Natural and Built Environment Bill and Spatial Planning Bill

This submission in response to the Natural and Built Environment Bill is made by The New Zealand Initiative, a Wellington-based think tank supported primarily by major New Zealand businesses. The Initiative has been deeply concerned about resource management policy and practice since its establishment in 2012. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton
Submission
3 February, 2023
Smokefree submission 24 August 2022 Final cover

Submission: Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill

This submission on the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill is made by the New Zealand Initiative and the Reason Foundation, a non-profit U.S.-based think-tank. The Reason Foundation’s nonpartisan public policy research promotes choice, competition, and a dynamic market economy as the foundation for human dignity and progress. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton
Guy Bentley
Submission
24 August, 2022
Cover Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan

Submission: The Emission Reduction Plan

This submission in response to the Emissions Reduction Plan supports the Zero Carbon Act’s goal of attaining net zero by 2050. We urge a greater focus on the Emissions Trading Scheme, enabling carbon prices to do more of the work in getting New Zealand to Net Zero, and avoiding policies that put net zero at risk by forcing higher-cost emission reduction strategies. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton
Submission
27 June, 2022
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Submission: Managing exotic afforestation incentives

This submission is in response to the Ministry for the Environment and Ministry for Primary Industry’s Discussion Document Managing exotic afforestation incentives. The Document proposes not awarding carbon credits through the ETS for permanent exotic forestry planting, despite the carbon sequestered in such forests, because of other perceived problems resulting from exotic forestry planting. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton
Submission
22 April, 2022
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Pretence of Necessity

At May’s Budget, the government will commit $4.5 billion to new spending on climate change, more than $2,000 per household. The government will also deliver its Emissions Reduction Plan, an array of levies, subsidies, regulations and hard bans. Read more

Research Report
21 March, 2022

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