Sustainable Development

An informal panel discussion with Jeanette Fitzsimons, Trevor Mallard and Nick Smith to coincide with the Victoria University environment week (28th July to 3rd August.) This is intended to highlight issues around sustainability, but it is also a realisation that environmental issues feature large in the political awareness of the student body, and young people in general.

John Key has finally responded to Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons’ open letter in which she requested details of National’s preferred Emissions Trading Scheme. Ms Fitzsimons says she is extremely disappointed at Key’s uninformative response, in which he says ‘I note the concerns and issues you raised’ but declines to answer any of the specific questions put to him.

Farmers would profit from involvement in the Emissions Trading Scheme, reinforcing the Green Party's insistence that farming be included in the Bill earlier than 2013, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

The Green Party is challenging National Leader John Key to come clean on what kind of emissions trading scheme his party would introduce if it becomes Government later this year.

The Prime Minister's announcement on the Emissions Trading Scheme this afternoon is a hastily-constructed panic reaction to pressure in election year, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

The Green Party says that there must be independent scientists involved in the allocation of the $700 million pastoral and food innovation fund announced today by the Government.