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Last updated: 3 April 2008
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Commissioner Dr Jan Wright and her team deliver numerous speeches, presentations, briefings and papers annually. A selection are presented here - to download one, click this icon on the list below: download icon

Speech, presentation or briefing Presenter Date Download
PCE review of Cawthron Report on Emissions Trading Scheme
Jan Wright
May 2008
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361 KB pdf
Biofuel Bill.
Briefing to Parliament's Local Government and Environment Committee.
Jan Wright
April 2008
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158 KB pdf
Dairy farming impact on water quantity and quality.
A briefing to Parliament's Primary Production Select Committee
Jan Wright
Oct 2007
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1.85 MB pdf
Housing affordability: housing's long-term energy costs and other environmental impacts.
A select committee briefing to Parliament's Commerce Committee for its Inquiry into Housing Affordability in New Zealand
Jan Wright
Sept 2007
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43 KB pdf
Resource diplomacy through Gaian eyes - how natural resources will increasingly shape the diplomacy frontline over the next five years.
Major Foreign Policy Issues, Wellington
Morgan Williams
Feb 2006
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900 KB pdf
Future currents: Electricity scenarios for New Zealand 2005-2050.
Future currents launch, Wellington
Nick Potter
July 2005
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410 KB pdf
Proposed Waitakere Ranges legislation - notes from public meeting.
Henderson High School, Auckland
Mike Moodie
Apr 2005
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130 KB pdf
Growing for good: Intensive farming, sustainability and New Zealand's environment.
The Lincoln Resource, Christchurch
Morgan Williams
Dec 2004
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1.9 MB ppt
Growing for good: Intensive farming, sustainability and New Zealand's environment.
NZARM Conference, Gore
Morgan Williams
Oct 2004
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2.1 MB ppt
Are we eating our rivers? Agriculture and food market impacts on the health of nature's arteries.
Living Rivers Seminar, Timaru
Morgan Williams
Sep 2004
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2.3 MB ppt
Water Obesity: The Sustainability Challenge.
Water Rights Trust, AGM, Dunedin
Morgan Williams
Jul 2004
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2.0 MB ppt
Freshwater: the natural capital account we must keep in credit.
RSNZ Freshwater Conference, Auckland
Morgan Williams
Nov 2003
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1.3 MB pdf
Learning to be a more sustainable citizen - but learning what?
University of Otago, Dunedin
Morgan Williams
Oct 2003
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1.5 MB pdf
Sustaining New Zealand's bio-future; improving our navigation skills.
NZ Plant Protection Society Conference, Christchurch
Morgan Williams
Aug 2003
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1.4 MB pdf
Ways forward through the labyrinth of desires.
Reclaiming Our Heritage, The NZ Landscape Conference, Auckland
Morgan Williams
Jul 2003
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870 KB pdf
The journey or the destination; where is the RMA taking us?
NZPI Conference, Hamilton
Morgan Williams
May 2003
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8.5 MB pdf
Sustaining NZ's natural capital; getting beyond environmentalism.
National Soil and Health Organic 2020 Conference
Morgan Williams
May 2003
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890 KB pdf
Beyond environmentalism to sustainability; fresh water implications.
Environment Summit, Wellington
Morgan Williams
Mar 2003
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1.4 MB pdf
Sustaining what? Our lifestyles, our natural capital, our economic systems.
Canterbury Sustainability Expo
Morgan Williams
Feb 2003
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900 KB pdf
A contribution from a global waters group; the International Water Association (IWA).
Morgan Williams
Dec 2002
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3.7 MB pdf
Communities showing the way: NZ's sustainable development progress since the Earth Summit in 1992.
ANZSEE Conference 2002, ESD strategies in action
Morgan Williams
Dec 2002
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1.2 MB pdf
Natural capital: the account we all continue to plunder.
International Water Association Conference, Venice, Italy
Morgan Williams
Nov 2002
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1.6 MB pdf
Sustaining food and fibre QA systems for pampered palates.
Sustainable Management Systems Network (SAMSN) Launch, Wellington
Morgan Williams
Sep 2002
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3.2 MB pdf
Sustaining sustainability; New Zealand's progress since Rio.
Auckland University's 'Sustaining New Zealand' series, Auckland
Morgan Williams
Aug 2002
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1.2 MB pdf
Lincoln University State of the Nation's Environment Address
Morgan Williams
Jul 2002
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7.6 MB pdf
Sustainability - It's got to be good for you.
Address to the New Zealand Association of Environmental Education Conference, Hamilton
Rochelle Selby-Neal
Jan 2002
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1.8 MB pdf
Enhancing the ecological sustainability of NZ's agricultural systems; what role for our native plants?
Address to Nature Farming for the 21st Century, 7th International Conference on Kyusei Nature Farming, Christchurch
Morgan Williams
Jan 2002
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1.3 MB pdf
Ecological literacy and institutional capacity - Keys to respecting the quality of life.
Address to Asia Pacific Earth Charter Conference, Brisbane
Morgan Williams
Dec 2001
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1.0 MB pdf
Navigation challenges; What course for genetic sciences in NZ's biotic futures?
Address to Biotech Industry, Auckland
Morgan Williams
Nov 2001
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1.3 MB pdf
Navigation challenges; What course for genetic sciences in NZ's biotic futures?
Address to the Grasshoppers Club, Ashburton
Morgan Williams
Oct 2001
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950 KB pdf
Innovative Transport Solutions Workshop.
Infrastructure Auckland
Morgan Williams
Oct 2001
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1.8 MB pdf
Aotearoa, a first class berth to a more sustainable future - provided...
Sustainable Auckland Congress, Auckland
Morgan Williams
Sep 2001
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3.1 MB pdf
Leadership, knowledge and partnership: key ingredients of a more sustainable city - Curitiba, Brazil.
Sustainable Auckland Congress, Auckland
Morgan Williams
Sep 2001
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2.1 MB pdf
Roads, sustainability and the environment: the short and long haul.
Address to Bitumen Contractors' Association, Wellington
Doug Clover
Aug 2001
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800 KB pdf
Communities, sustainability, environment; how to think about, link and measure them.
Address to Society of Local Government Managers, Wellington
Morgan Williams
Sep 2001
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1.7 MB pdf
Sustaining a gondwanan remnant, and its people, through the 21st century; some navigation challenges.
New Zealand Ecological Society Conference, Christchurch
Morgan Williams
Aug 2001
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1.2 MB pdf
Leadership, knowledge and partnership: key ingredients of a more sustainable city - Curitiba, Brazil.
Address to New Zealand Institute of Architects, Auckland
Morgan Williams
Aug 2001
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4.3 MB pdf
Crafting sustainable futures needs skilled "builders"; are we fostering them?
Futures Resource Base Conference
Morgan Williams
Apr 2001
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850 KB pdf
Address to International Society for Ecological Economics.
Conference 2000, Canberra, Australia
Morgan Williams
Jul 2000
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1.3 MB pdf

Paper Author Date Download
Sustainability - It's got to be good for you.
Rochelle Selby-Neal
Jan 2002
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100 KB pdf
Democratically modified science.
ANZCART/NAEAC Conference
Ronda Cooper
Jun 2001
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53 KB pdf
Closing submission to the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
Morgan Williams
Mar 2001
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23 KB pdf
Back to the future - pastoral land use in a forested land - sustainability challenges for the 21st century.
XIX Grassland Congress, Brazil
Morgan Williams
Feb 2001
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150 KB pdf
Submission to the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
Morgan Williams
Oct 2000
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84 KB pdf
Witness brief - Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
Morgan Williams
Oct 2000
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39 KB pdf
Witness brief - Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
Dr Mark Lonsdale
Oct 2000
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75 KB pdf
Sustainability indicators for New Zealand cities and communities.
New Zealand Planning Institute Conference
Phil Hughes
May 2000
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1.2 MB pdf