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Reform in Paradise II: Environmental Reform & the Green Economy

2-3 June 2010
Aotea Centre, Auckland


Leaders' Dialogue - "Should the '100% Pure New Zealand' brand be expanded from tourism to promote the whole country?"

Moderator: Rod Oram, Business journalist

Panellists
Hon Shane Jones, Labour Spokesperson for the Environment
Ben McNeil, Senior Research Fellow, Climate Change Centre, University of New South Wales
Chris Mulcare, Investment Manager Clean Technology, Investment New Zealand
Professor Juliet Roper, Associate Dean of Sustainability, University of Waikato
John Hutchings, General Manager Sustainable Production, Fonterra

To hear the audio recording of this session, click HERE. (file size 25MB)


WORKSHOPS

Workshop A: RMA Reforms Phase II

Workshop B: Aquaculture Workshop Notes
Anaru Vercoe: Project Leader: Aquaculture, Auckland Regional Council

Workshop C: Developing a conservation economy

Workshop D: Primary production & Brand New Zealand


SPEAKERS (Presentations & Papers)

Lesley Baddon
General Manager, Policy and Planning, Auckland Regional Council, Te Rauhitanga Taiao
Shaping urban growth: Achieving a city that works

Mike Barry  (audio recording - file size 15MB)
Head of Sustainable Business, Marks & Spencer, London 
Sustainable business post 2020

Guy Beatson
Deputy Secretary Policy Division, Ministry for the Environment - Manatū Mō Te Taiao
Linking environmental policy with the green economy

Alastair Bisley
Chair, Land and Water Forum
Interim report from Land and Water Forum

Dr Rick Boven
Director, New Zealand Institute
Economic transformation through an environmental lens

Geoff Ensor
Advocacy Manager, Tourism Industry Association of New Zealand
Learning how to share paradise

Hon Christopher Finlayson
Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations; Attorney-General
Transforming natural resource management through co-governance arrangements

Greg Hill
Resource Management Consultant; Member of Environment Canterbury Review Team
Environmental Protection Authority versus regional councils

Justine Inns
Partner, Ocean Law New Zealand
Prospective changes to foreshore and seabed law: Implications for resource management

Hon John Key
Prime Minister of New Zealand
New Zealand's economy: a vision for the future

Hon Sir Douglas Kidd
Chairman Aquaculture Technical Advisory Group; Waitangi Tribunal Member; former Minister of Fisheries
Designing policy reform to support sustainable aquaculture

Hugh Logan
former Director-General of the Department of Conservation; former Secretary for the Environment
The conservation estate and economic development

Jens Madsen
Managing Director, Ports of Auckland Limited
Trends in international shipping

Sue Maturin
Otago/Southland Field Officer, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society
Managing land use change in the High Country
Powerpoint

Dr Ben McNeil
Senior Research Fellow, Climate Change Centre, University of New South Wales
The clean industrial revolution: Growing prosperity in a greenhouse age

Rod Oram
Business journalist
Conference sum-up

Raewyn Peart (14MB)
Senior Policy Analyst, Environmental Defence Society
Why we should establish a New Zealand Coastal Commission

Hon Peter Salmon QC
Royal Commissioner on Auckland Governance
A new planning framework for Auckland - what should it look like?
Powerpoint

Dr Caroline Saunders
Professor of Trade and the Environment, Lincoln University
Consumer sustainability trends in key overseas markets

Stephen Selwood
Chief Executive, New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development; Member of the Infrastructure TAG
Can the designation process be streamlined without lowering environmental standards?

Hon Dr Nick Smith (audio recording, file size 18MB)
Minister for the Environment

Hon Dr Nick Smith: written presentation
Looking forward: Next steps in the Blue-Green agenda

Metiria Turei
Co-Leader, Green Party (presented at the conference by Gareth Hughes)
Protecting marine wildlife: Is current legislation up to the job?

Dr Ian Yeoman
Associate Professor, Management School, University of Victoria
Tomorrow's tourist