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Prepared for Millie B. | Delivered February 2, 2020
Environmental Positions of New Zealand Political Parties
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Goals
To obtain a summary of each New Zealand political party's stance on the environment to include any specific information related to trees.
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Early Findings
The Outdoors Party
Many policies of the Outdoors Party revolve around the
environment.
Specifically, the party has a freshwater policy that includes the following:
Stop creating more pollution
Keep rivers unmodified
Water belongs to everyone
Polluters pay
Keep rivers full
Keep rivers clean
The party has a marine
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policy that includes rebuilding New Zealand's fisheries and reviewing the "way they are allocated to ensure New Zealanders get fair access to the
bounty of [their] marine environment
so [they] can all enjoy fishing and fish for dinner."
This policy also includes the protection of marine habitats to "
enhance fish breeding and recruitment
."
The party's poisons policy is to "immediately ban all use of
1080 and brodifacoum poisons
."
Regarding climate change, the Outdoors Party's "
supports personal, community and national actions
to minimise all pollution of our food, ecosystems and environment" and "regenerative agriculture to promote healthy diverse living and carbon rich soils that grow healthy foods and thriving communities."
Additionally, with regard to climate change, the Outdoors Party will "
encourage education, regenerative agnonomists
, research and other resources to help farmers transition from heavy investment in chemicals to lower chemical input and more natural regenerative farming techniques."
The party is also in the process of
developing new policies
on healthy living, bringing back the Forest Service, plastics, and food and gardening, but there is no information yet on what these policies contain.
New Zealand First
One of New Zealand First's 15 fundamental principles is the environment, about which it states, "
All environmental policies
will be proactive with a view to creating employment and sustainable wealth whilst improving one of our few competitive advantages."
New Zealand First's environmental policies include the following:
The government will set a
net zero carbon target
by 2050
The government will "establish and legislate
split gas targets
for carbon dioxide and biogenic methane"
The government will establish an "initial methane target at a
10 percent reduction
from 2017 levels from 2020 to 2030."
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Zealand First also supported the
One Billion Trees Programm
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is designed to "
increase tree planting
across New Zealand. The goal is to double the current planting rate to reach one billion trees planted by 2028."
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Maori Party
With regard to trees, the Maori Party states that one of its climate change policies is to support a "proposal that will see the
planting of 100,000 hectares
of new forests over the next 10 years."
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Maori Party has the following policies regarding the environment:
To establish legislation to
protect freshwater
To establish a
Minister of Freshwater
to address "
freshwater protection
, rights and interests"
To establish a standard of "
drinkable
" for freshwater
To
tax tourists
and use the money to improve infrastructure and impacts on the environment
To find a
natural alternative to 1080
To
enhance marine biodiversity
and keep the Māui dolphin and other marine life from becoming extinct
To encourage young people to "have a voice in the design and planning of their cities starting with
green spaces in urban centres
."
To create grants that will help
develop alternative energy sources
To
promote solar panel use
by governments, hospitals, and schools
To close all "
coal-fired power plants
by 2025"
With regard to climate change, the Maori Party has the following policies:
To
prioritize solutions
for climate change and work across parties to implement them
To enact
carbon budget target
laws
To support the establishment of an
independent Climate Commission
to help set carbon budget targets
To establish government
subsidies for electric vehicles
To create "
enviro-school models
of curriculum"
To support a "proposal that will see the
planting of 100,000 hectares
of new forests over the next 10 years."
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