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Short-term pain on emissions will yield $64b gain
Climate change

Short-term pain on emissions will yield $64b gain

Economic losses to NZ will mount if global temperatures aren't reined in.

Greg Hurrell 08 Mar 2023
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Environmental protection spending up 10%
News in Brief

Environmental protection spending up 10%

Local and central government spent an extra $204 million on environmental protection in 2021, an annual increase of 10%, environmental-economic accounts data shows.Altogether, $2.2 billion was spent on environmental protection, most of it coming from local government.Environmenta...

Staff reporters 07 Mar 2023
Is bi-partisan support for RMA reform breaking down?
Infrastructure

Pattrick Smellie: Is bi-partisan support for RMA reform breaking down?

Environment minister David Parker's five year effort to reform the RMA is hitting big enough obstacles at select committee to throw the reform timetable into doubt.

Pattrick Smellie 07 Mar 2023
Worldline data show spending picks up in February
Retail

Worldline data show spending picks up in February

Spending was still subdued in February. 

Staff reporters 06 Mar 2023


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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.

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