NZ ratifies new global climate change pact as carbon heads for $20 a tonne
By Pattrick Smellie Oct. 5 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand has become one of the first batch of countries to ratify the new global climate change pact hammered out in Paris last December, heralding the country's return to global carbon markets four years after abandoning them....
Innovation and infrastructure still holding back NZ's international competitiveness
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 29 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's national infrastructure and capacity to innovate stand out as two factors that continue to drag on the country's international competitiveness, even as it rose three places in the ranks from last year and 10 places be...
Tertiary education system set up to preserve status quo: Productivity Commission
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 28 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's tertiary education system is set up in ways that preserve the status quo, discourage innovation, encourage high-cost models, and reward the largest providers for gaming the system to be able to 'cry poor', the Product...
Consensus firms on need for bigger environmental regime overhaul
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 28 (BusinessDesk) - A new coalition of environmental, business and infrastructure lobby groups has added new weight to a growing consensus that the 25 year-old Resource Management Act is failing both to allow sufficient development and to protect the...
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