New GM Foods Designed to Escape Regulation
A new generation of genetically modified (GM) foods is in the pipeline and if developers get their way, they won’t be labelled. In fact, they won’t be regulated at all. Read [...]
View ArticleRight to Sue Under Trade Deal is Pernicious and Unnecessary
Some things should not be traded. When it comes to deals about trade, governments should not give foreign investors the right to sue them in offshore tribunals. Yet the US [...]
View ArticleDo Costs from the TPP Outweigh Gains?
Opinion Article, Dominion Post By Simon Terry, Executive Director, Sustainability Cuncil The Trans-Pacific Partnership covers a lot of non-trade matters, so why is there a reluctance to discuss the...
View ArticleIs the EPA a Reliable Guardian of the Environment?
Opinion Article, New Zealand Herald By Simon Terry, Executive Director, Sustainability Council A spectacular fail by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) raises serious questions about its...
View ArticleHigh Court Ruling a Win for NZ Food Inc
Stephanie Howard is Projects Director at the Sustainability Council This opinion piece appeared in Farmers Weekly, June 16 2014 In a competitive global marketplace, successful agricultural innovation...
View ArticlePressure Mounting on NZ for Real Emissions Reductions
After many years focused on creative accounting, New Zealand is facing pressure to deliver emission reduction results. Things are different partly because the two biggest carbon polluters, the US and...
View ArticleTPP Backers Have Questions to Answer
This opinion piece by Simon Terry appeared in the New Zealand Herald on February 24 2015 ExportNZ’s Dialogue article in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks failed to come to [...]
View ArticleNew Scientist: How should we control the power to genetically eliminate a...
The power to re-engineer or eliminate wild species using a “gene drive” needs to be brought under international governance, say Simon Terry and Stephanie Howard Commentary, New Scientist. Thanks to a...
View Article‘Un-Terminating’ the Smelter, and Unlocking a Manapouri New Deal
Rio Tinto’s latest threat to close its smelter came with the news that it had terminated its power supply contract – something that had “never been done before”. However the [...]
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