Green Light or Light Green? The Government’s environmental reforms
1-2 August 2018, Grand
Millennium Auckland SESSION 10: FRESHWATER
REFORM
Freshwater was a prominent election issue and is high on this government’s agenda. On Sunday, Minister Parker announced big changes to freshwater policy including a reformed national policy statement on freshwater management. This conference session will probe the merits, practicality and implications of the new direction the Minister has signalled. It will draw on insights from the recent work undertaken by the Rt Hon Simon Upton, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, on nutrient management. It will consider learnings from the Waikato experience, which will be outlined by Vaughan Payne, Chief Executive of the Waikato Regional Council. We will also hear what limits will mean on the ground for farmers from Alison Dewes, Head of Environment, Landcorp Farming, followed by a robust panel discussion.
Chair: Gary Taylor, Chief Executive, Environmental Defence Society
Presentations
Joining the dots: learnings from regional approaches to nutrient management and where to focus our future effort
Rt Hon Simon Upton, Parliamentary
Commissioner for the Environment
How to
meet the challenge of water
restoration
Vaughan Payne, Chief Executive,
Waikato Regional Council
What do limits
mean on the ground?
Alison Dewes, Head of
Environment, Landcorp Farming Panel
Discussion: Have we reached peak cow? and other freshwater
reform matters
Suzie Greenhalgh, Manaaki
Whenua-Landcare Research
Katie Milne, President,
Federated Farmers
James Palmer, Chief Executive, Hawkes
Bay Regional Council
Kevin Counsell, Senior Consultant,
NERA
Join us on 1-2 August 2018 for New
Zealand’s leading, thought-provoking environmental
conference .
ProgrammeTuesday 31 July, 1-5pm(submission
deadline 29 June
2018)