Submissions, talks, papers and press releases

• NEW Submission to the Rio + 20 conference on sustainable development Food security and sustainable agriculture (25 May 2012) by Kay Weir
• Submission on the revision of the Crown Minerals Act 1991 to the Ministry for Economic Development (20 April 2012) by Cliff Mason
• ETS Review Consultation to the Ministry for the Environment (15 March 2012) by Cliff Mason
• Support for International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Aotearoa/NZ to Foreign Affairs Defence & Trade Select Committee (15 March 2012) by Kay Weir
• Press release: Oil industry’s rush to drill deep sea blind to dire problems (15 February 2012)
• Submission to the Local Government and Environment Committee on the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill, 26/01/12 by Kay Weir [145KB PDF]
• Submission to Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Murray McCully on responding to a security issue For New Zealand & the Southwest Pacific from collapsing Moruroa Atoll, 19/08/11 by Kay Weir [70KB PDF]
• Submission to Minister of Fisheries Phil Heatley on Fisheries & Ocean Crises – Pacific Ecologist Oceans Issue, 5/08/1 by Kay Weir [90KB PDF]
• Oral submission on public transport given to a Wellington City Council extraordinary meeting by Kay Weir [65KB PDF]
• Submission on the Ministry of Economic Development’s Draft Energy Strategies by Dr Cliff Mason [35KB PDF]
• Talk for Climate Camp NZ, 18/12/09: Biofuel imports from third world countries: Crime against nature & humanity by Kay Weir [150KB PDF]
• Submission on Jeanette Fitzsimon’s Sustainable Biofuel Bill 2009 by Kay Weir [125KB PDF]
• Submission on the Resource Management Act (Simplifying & Streamlining) Amendment Bill 2009 by Dr Cliff Mason [65KB PDF]
• Submission on Emissions Reductions by 2020 to Dr Nick Smith, Minister of Climate Change issues by Dr Cliff Mason & Kay Weir [95KB PDF]
• PIRM Press release: Avoid ‘biofuel’ imports like plague
• Submission to Select Committee Enquiry on Emissions Trading by Cliff Mason [90KB PDF]
• Is NZ’s disproportionately large ecological footprint and its connection with human rights an election issue? [175KB PDF]
  Talk given by Kay Weir to the NZ Workers’ Educational Association
• Submission on Biosecurity New Zealand’s discussion paper ‘Managing and Controlling the Risk to the Marine Environment from Ballast Water Discharges’` by Cliff Mason [40KB PDF]
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• Submission to the Minister of Energy, Ministry of Transport and Green Party on the Emissions Trading Scheme – 25/08/2007 by Kay Weir [115KB PDF]
• Submission to ERMA on Genetically Modified Organisms – 15/08/2008 by Cliff Mason [70KB PDF]
• Submission to MFAT on Biosecurity – January 2008 by Cliff Mason [90KB PDF]
• Submission to MFAT for the Bali Climate Negotiations – 02/11/2007 by Kay Weir and Cliff Mason [100KB PDF]
• Talk for the MFAT Post 2012 Negotiations Stakeholder Session – 16/08/2007 by Kay Weir
• Submission on government climate change policies – 30/03/2007 by Dr Cliff Mason and Kay Weir [580KB PDF]
• Submission on the Waste Minimisation Bill – 4/8/2006 by Dr Cliff Mason [1.5MB PDF]
• Submission to the Local Government and Environment Committee on the Resource Management (Climate Protection) Amendment Bill
• Submission on Forestry
• Submission on Product Stewardship and Water Efficiency Labelling.
• Submission on the Overseas Investment Bill 2004
• Submission on the Charities Bill
• Submission on the Foreshore and Seabed Bill
• Submission on ratification of Catagena protocol
• Commercialisation of Community Services
• Submission on New Zealand Government Preferred Climate Policy for Ratifiying the Kyoto Protocol – 2002
• Renewable Energy Submission - 2002
• Submission to the Select Committee on the National Interest in Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol – 2002
• Submission for Climate Consultation Programme – 2001
• PIRM submission as Interested Persons to the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification – 2000
• Human rights Submission – 2000