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Forest & Bird says greenhouse gas targets require significant land use change
Policy

Forest & Bird says greenhouse gas targets require significant land use change

By Rebecca Howard July 25 (BusinessDesk) - The Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society told the parliamentary environment select committee significant changes to land use are essential to reach proposed emission reduction targets. Forest & Bird argued the targets contained i...

Rebecca Howard 25 Jul 2019
DairyNZ calls for achievable methane target
Primary Sector

DairyNZ calls for achievable methane target

By Rebecca Howard July 25 (BusinessDesk) - DairyNZ says a planned methane reduction target will set farmers up to fail and that the proposals need robust economic analysis.  The Climate Change Response Amendment Bill proposes that gross emissions of biogenic methane be cut...

Rebecca Howard 24 Jul 2019
Govt opts for sweeping review of 'underperforming' RMA
Infrastructure

Govt opts for sweeping review of 'underperforming' RMA

By Pattrick Smellie July 24 (BusinessDesk) - A sweeping review of the Resource Management Act opens the way to splitting the law relating to environmental protection and urban development back into two separate pieces of legislation as Environment Minister David Parker concede...

Pattrick Smellie 23 Jul 2019
Transpower sees no risk to credit metrics from incentive change
Infrastructure

Transpower sees no risk to credit metrics from incentive change

By Gavin Evans July 22 (BusinessDesk) - National grid operator Transpower says a further reduction signalled for its revenue during the next five-year regulatory period should not affect its key credit metrics. The state-owned company today told investors that a draft decis...

Gavin Evans 22 Jul 2019


Victoria Young
Victoria Young

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With a professional career spanning New Zealand, Singapore, and London, Victoria Young has been with BusinessDesk since 2019, initially as a senior reporter before taking on the role of investigations editor in 2022, then editor in 2024. 
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