Funding to strengthen Māori climate resilience and create economic benefits
Funding for a solar farm at Te Karaka will keep critical services running during extreme weather events and provide long-term economic benefits for the community.
Government delivers major building system reform
The Government has agreed to change the building and construction sector’s liability settings from joint and several liability to proportionate liability and is making it easier for Building Consent Authorities (BCA) to voluntarily consolidate their functions.
Help shape MfE’s Long-term Insights Briefing on building resilience to hazards
The draft briefing shares information on New Zealand’s hazard landscape and the forces that shape it. It also outlines the challenges of resilience-building and opportunities for action.
Towards an international treaty on plastic pollution
Aotearoa New Zealand continues to contribute to global efforts to address plastic pollution through the development of an international treaty.
Ambitious course set for NZ’s geothermal potential
Doubling geothermal energy by 2040 is part of an ambitious new draft strategy to unlock New Zealand’s geothermal potential.
RMA national direction freshwater and primary sector submissions - PCE
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has made a series of submissions on the RMA national direction packages. In this submission he provided feedback on proposed amendments to the primary sector and freshwater packages.
Lessons can be learnt from Canada’s emphasis on infrastructure delivery - Infrastructure NZ
Canada delivers a new hospital or healthcare facility every six months.
Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive Nick Leggett says “That’s not a dream; that’s consistent delivery over a couple of decades and a lesson New Zealand needs to learn.”
New planning tool tests how zoning changes can reduce future flood risk
A new land-use model, funded by the Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake, gives planners a powerful new way to explore and test how different policy and investment decisions could reduce flood risk—before putting them into practice.
Next steps critical for delivering Aotearoa New Zealand’s climate goals
The Climate Change Commission's 2025 emissions reduction monitoring report has been released.
The report looks at Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress to date, and how well current policies and plans are setting the country up to meet its future climate goals.
EDS calls government intervention “another offensive in the war on nature”
The Minister for Resource Management Reform, Chris Bishop has announced that the government would be intervening to prevent councils from progressing environmental protections under the Resource Management Act.
Environmental Defence Society CEO Gary Taylor says this is extremely unwelcome and yet another salvo in this government’s war on nature.
PCE submission on Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has made a submission to the Centre for Sustainable Finance regarding its consultation on establishing a common taxonomy to guide sustainable finance.