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Submissions expose horrors of David Parker’s RMA reform proposals

Environment Minister David Parker’s Resource Management law reform proposals have been a long time in the making. The trio of Bills Parker proposes to replace the much-maligned Resource Management Act date back to the work of a government task force established in 2019. Read more

Roger Partridge

NZ Herald

15 February, 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

Why Hipkins should call time on RMA reforms

At 11:59pm on Sunday, submissions close on Environment Minister David Parker’s Natural and Built Environment Bill. One minute to midnight on the Sunday of Waitangi weekend is a strange deadline for submissions on a once-in-a-generation proposal to reform the Resource Management Act. Read more

Roger Partridge

Insights Newsletter

3 February, 2023

Mike Hosking discusses Roger Partridge's NZ Herald column

Mike Hosking discusses Roger Partridge's NZ Herald column on the RMA replacement.

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Roger Partridge

NewstalkZB

29 November, 2022

Wine, bottles, and resource management reform

Last week, the government released the first parts of its proposed overhaul of the resource management system. If passed into law, the Natural and Built Environment Bill will, over a transition period, replace the Resource Management Act. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

Newsroom

22 November, 2022

A confusion of National Policy Statements

Collective nouns are fun. A murder of crows is great. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

The Dominion Post

17 October, 2022

Podcast: Oliver Hartwich with Simon Court on the Clean Car Scheme

Oliver Hartwich chats with ACT’s Transport and Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court about the Clean Car Scheme and how it's adding bureaucracy, not reducing emissions. To listen to our latest podcasts, please subscribe to The New Zealand Initiative podcast on iTunes, Spotify or The Podcast App. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Simon Court

Podcast

3 October, 2022

Shifting targets

Economist Dave Heatley finds himself in something of a quandary. New Zealand’s economists firmly support the Emissions Trading Scheme as the best way of achieving New Zealand’s net zero target. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

The Dominion Post

3 October, 2022

Media release: Strong support for the ETS to get us to Net Zero

Wellington (Wednesday, 28 September 2022) – New Zealand’s economists strongly support the Emissions Trading Scheme and strengthening it through a carbon dividend. The latest survey of members of the New Zealand Association of Economists finds extraordinarily strong agreement that: Tightening the ETS’s cap on emissions makes far more sense than measures like fuel economy standards on imported vehicles (53% strongly agree, 35% agree, 5% disagree); If additional market failures are present, policies should target those directly to reduce the cost of mitigating emissions (24% strongly agree, 57% agree, 2% strongly disagree); A carbon dividend to households beats measures like electric vehicle subsidies or targeted regulations for ensuring equity (45% strongly agree; 48% agree; 2% disagree). Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Dr Eric Crampton

Media Release

28 September, 2022

Mike Hosking discusses Roger Partridge's NZ Herald column

Mike Hosking discusses Roger Partridge's NZ Herald column on protecting highly productive soils. Read more

Roger Partridge

NewstalkZB

23 September, 2022

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