Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.
I think it’s inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.
It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.
I don’t know that you’re ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they’re not going to own their own homes and I’m not going to try.
As New Zealanders, we’ve been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter – it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.
People are optimistic about the future.
New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.
Senator Obama will be taking office at a critical juncture. There are many pressing challenges facing the international community, including the global financial crisis and global warming. We look forward to working closely with President-elect Obama and his team to address these challenges.
If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile – but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.
I’ve been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I’ve been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.
I’m not into power for the sake of it.
Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.
Of course as a small country you’re not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you’re negotiating with other small countries.
Health and education are always issues.
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
Well of course New Zealand isn’t anti-American.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.
Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.
Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don’t micromanage.