Dates: Monday 6 & Tuesday 7 August 2012

Venue: Aotea Centre, Auckland

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New Zealand's economy is heavily dependent on primary production.

While there's a lot of effort going into diversification, farming, forestry and fishing will continue to generate most of our wealth for the forseeable future and will continue to expand.

At the same time, New Zealand is facing a number of environmental challenges.

These are challenges to both our way of life and the sustainability of the primary industries on which we rely.

How can we continue to invest in primary production and at the same time address these challenges?

It will require a fundamental rethink of the nexus between production and the environment. New policy is needed including a national policy statement on biodiversity and updated marine reserves legislation.

Why attend Growing Green?

The conference will debate new approaches, such as biodiversity offsetting under the Resource Management Act 1991. We should also rethink the production models underpinning farming, forestry and fishing, to identify how these can be shifted towards supporting better biodiversity outcomes.

Growing Green will examine international approaches to meeting these challenges. It will canvass new approaches and tools emerging in New Zealand. It will explore how mechanisms under the RMA and other legislation could be used to improve outcomes. And it will ask whether we need institutional restructuring at the regional and national levels to 'Grow Green'.

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