PCE - State of the Nation’s Environment Address

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment marked 50 years of environmental studies at Lincoln University in November 2025 by giving an address on “What we don’t know about the state of New Zealand’s environment – and does it matter?”

He opened with an acknowledgement of Helen Hughes, the very first Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (1987–96), who was one of the first two people awarded honorary doctorates by the newly independent Lincoln University in 1993.