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Health Of New Zealand’s Waterways Requires Improved Freshwater Modelling Support And Coordination

Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 2:07 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

In a new report released today, the Commissioner has reviewed how models are being used by councils across New Zealand in freshwater management. More >>

New Zealand Needs To Confront The Challenges Of Land Use Change

Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 7:58 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

Going with the grain: Changing land uses to fit a changing landscape, sets out the multiple environmental problems facing rural New Zealand and makes suggestions on how to approach the land use change needed to prevent further degradation. More >>

Greater Protections Needed For Urban Soil To Safeguard Vital Environmental Services

Thursday, 7 March 2024, 4:39 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

Healthy urban soil is the unseen engine room supporting the essential environmental services that our cities’ green spaces provide. But urban soil is under pressure from current approaches to residential development. This finding is revealed in Urban ... More >>

Govt To Spend $3.6 Billion On Environment In 2023/24 Fiscal Year

Wednesday, 14 February 2024, 2:54 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

Central government agencies are estimated to spend $3.6 billion on the environment in the 2023/24 financial year according to new figures from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. The Commissioner has released his third annual estimate of environmental ... More >>

Address At The Wilding Pine Network Conference 2023: Wildings In The Backyard

Friday, 20 October 2023, 10:45 am | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

On 20 October the Commissioner presented a speech at the Wilding Pine Network Conference 2023 in Queenstown. He outlined important lessons in managing invasive species learned from the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme. These ... More >>

Fair Comparisons Needed For Major Electricity Investments

Monday, 19 June 2023, 9:01 am | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, today released the results of modelling that illustrate what four different future electricity pathways might mean for New Zealand electricity consumers. The alternative pathways chosen ... More >>

Are We Building Harder, Hotter Cities? The Vital Importance Of Urban Green Spaces

Thursday, 16 March 2023, 3:25 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

As we densify our cities to accommodate population growth, we must not lose sight of the environmental benefits that urban green space provides, warns the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, in a new report. “Planning ... More >>

Environmental Decisions: Do We Know If We're Making A Difference?

Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 1:44 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, is calling for improved public accountability to get better outcomes for the environment. The Government spends over $2 billion each year on the environment. “We need to know how our actions ... More >>

Regulating The Environmental Fate Of Chemicals

Thursday, 3 March 2022, 2:01 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, is proposing changes to the way New Zealand manages chemicals to make sure their environmental impacts are not overlooked. “On paper, there is a robust system in place to assess ... More >>

Wellbeing Budgets And The Environment: A Promised Land?

Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 1:54 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, is questioning whether the Government’s budget process is able to take into account the complexities and long-term nature of many environmental problems. “The benefits that arise from ... More >>

Turning Back A Silent Invasion

Thursday, 11 November 2021, 1:53 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, is calling for the Government to lift its game in protecting native ecosystems from the thousands of exotic plants spreading throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. “Rampaging weeds pose ... More >>

Findings Of Water Quality Model Review ‘Devastating’

Wednesday, 11 August 2021, 5:57 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton has expressed relief that two and half years after he requested a review of Overseer, its results have finally become public. Overseer was originally developed as a tool to help farmers ... More >>

Funding To Plug Environmental Data Gaps

Friday, 21 May 2021, 9:09 am | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, has welcomed the Budget 2021 initiative to upgrade the environmental monitoring and reporting system. “I am heartened to see action on this fundamental issue”, the Commissioner said. ... More >>

Not 100% – But Four Steps Closer To Sustainable Tourism

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 2:00 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, is urging the Government to take advantage of the pause in international tourism to transform the sector to one with a substantially smaller environmental footprint. Covid-19 ... More >>

Managing Our Estuaries: Waste Traps Or Taonga?

Tuesday, 11 August 2020, 2:11 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton is calling for an approach to managing estuaries that treats estuaries and the waterways that feed into them as a single entity from the mountains to the sea. “If the vision of ki ... More >>

Tourism and Environment: Pristine, popular... imperilled?

Wednesday, 18 December 2019, 3:46 pm | Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, warns that increasing numbers of tourists – both domestic and international – are putting our environment under pressure and eroding the very attributes that make New Zealand such an attractive ... More >>

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