National Torches the Ministry for the Environment
National has abolished the Ministry for the Environment and folded nature’s voice into a development mega-ministry. It feels less like reform than an institutional bonfire.

National has abolished the Ministry for the Environment and folded nature’s voice into a development mega-ministry. It feels less like reform than an institutional bonfire.

For 40 years, New Zealand kept a dedicated environmental voice at the heart of government. Luxon has now folded it into a development mega-ministry nobody voted for.

Zero Waste Aotearoa warns the Government’s plan to fold the Ministry for the Environment into a mega-ministry risks weakening environmental protection.

Even under the Government’s Fast-Track approval regime, the controversial Trans-Tasman Resources seabed mining proposal has been rejected, marking a major…