EDS template submission on Natural & Built Environment Bill & Spatial Planning Bill Jan 2023

The Environmental Defence Society has produced a template to help those interested in submitting on the Bills. The Bills, which will replace the Resource Management Act, will provide the legal framework for managing Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural and built environments for decades to come. It is therefore critically important that we get them right.

EDS hopes that its template submission will make it easier for people to get involved in this once in a generation process. The template identifies key problems with the Bills that need fixing, and positive aspects that should be retained.

Submissions on the Bills to the Environment Select Committee close on 5 February 2023.

EDS’s template submission is available here

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WRC Freshwater Policy Review - Input sought at 1 Day Water Workshop held in Taupo on 27th May

For the Freshwater Policy Review WRC will be implementing the National Objectives Framework (NOF) to enable them to connect the freshwater values of tangata whenua and communities with potential solutions to realise these values. This will support revisions to the RPS and regional plan that align with tangata whenua and communities values, giving effect to Te Mana o te Wai and the NPS-FM.

A one-day Water Workshop was held on 27th May 2022 at the Great Lake Centre, Taupō to get community input about managing the lake catchment and fresh water around Taupō.

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Agricultural Climate Action - The He Waka Eke Noa partnership propose farms pay a capped rate for methane for the first three years.

Agricultural nitrous oxide and carbon emissions would start with a 95% discount, compared to the carbon price under the Emissions Trading Scheme (or ETS). - Stuff reporter Olivia Wannan13:30, Jun 09 2022

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/128893841/farm-bodies-want-sway-over-the-price-of-their-pollution-activists-panned-the-idea Abridged version:

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Nov 2021 - With COP 26 in progress we have an overview from the Climate Comission. Also, LWAG to host Climate Change presentation by Dr James Renwick at our Feb 17th meeting 2022.

COP26 is on. The Glasgow summit brings together thousands of people from more than 200 nations to accelerate action towards the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

This is where rubber must hit the road on the Paris Agreement — where nations including Aotearoa New Zealand committed to playing our part towards holding global temperature rises to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century, and to ‘pursue efforts’ to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Until now we have collectively failed to deliver.

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LWAG to host TDC's Denis Lewis - annual '3 Waters' report September 16, at the Acapulco Motel Conference Rm, 19 Rifle Range Rd under level 2+ conditions.

Due to lockdown level 4 the annual TDC ‘3 Waters’ report was postponed. There is much happening in this core area of business with the proposed DIA reforms (see link below) TDC are currently running a survey which will form part of their feedback to the Government on the reform programme. The survey closes on Wednesday 15 September. See more here…

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