The Government has adopted a new strategy to reduce waste and improve how it’s managed in New Zealand.

New Zealand is now ‘on track’ to meet both parts of the Government’s public sector target to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions.

The Salmon Lectures: Law, Policy and the Environment (2022-2024). Since the inception of the Annual Salmon Lecture, the RMLA has produced two volumes of earlier lectures to ensure the valuable education these lectures provide may endure and continue to encourage critical thought and debate within the field of environmental law and policy. This compendium is a reproduction of those two prior volumes while enabling the addition of later lectures.

RMLA’s submission on Heritage New Zealand Statements of General Policy focuses on matters we consider requiring comment, rather than providing feedback on each objective and policy.

Simon Court is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for RMA Reform. His speech to the LGNZ Forum focuses on the RMA’s downfall and the solution.

The Water Services Authority - Taumata Arowai (the Authority) has begun consulting on proposed national wastewater environmental performance standards.

The report finds that from 2010-2019 average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history, but the rate of growth has slowed.

The report, agreed to by 195 countries, includes a whole chapter dedicated to Australia and New Zealand.

The Government has announced some decisions on the second stage of the Going for Housing Growth programme (GfHG), with improvements to infrastructure funding and financing tools to help get more housing built.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has made a submission to the Department of Conservation on its Modernising Conservation Land Management discussion document.

The Salmon Lectures: Law, Policy and the Environment (2002-2024)

RMLA will be appearing before the Environment Select Committee on Thursday 13 March at 11:40 to speak to our submission on the Resource Management (Consenting & Other System Changes) Amendment Bill.