Sustainability Council case provides clarity to NZ GM regulations
The High Court has found in favour of the Sustainability Council in their case against the EPA. The Sustainability Council took the EPA to court regarding their decision that certain breeding techniques do not come within the scope of New Zealand’s GM legislation. The Court found that the EPA misinterpreted the law and was criticised for...
Submissions on the Environmental Reporting Bill Due 5pm Tomorrow
Submissions on the Environmental Reporting Bill are due at 5pm, 17 April. This is an important piece of potential legislation for New Zealand. The Institute supports Environmental Reporting legislation in principle and we have a detailed submission in process. The Parliamentary Commission for the Environments submission is a quick and worthwhile read for anyone interested, it...
Rootworm develops resistance to GM corn originally engineered to kill them
A study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has documented the rapid resistance in western corn rootworm to an anti pest toxin produced by genetically modified corn in the US. BT corn, first planted in 2020, was genetically modified to produce a toxin poisonous to the worms, who were devastating US...
Analysing Perspectives on Integrated Reporting
As part of his PhD research, friend of the Institute Matthew Sorola is surveying accountants’ perspectives of social and environmental reporting. His research seeks to identify views amongst the accounting profession more generally. This information will then be used to reflect on those views and the impact this may have on operational aspects concerning the...
International Integrated Reporting Framework Released
After a three-month global consultation led by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) we are delighted to see the release International Integrated Reporting (<IR>) Framework! It can be found here! The discussion document elicited over 350 responses from around the world, and will be used to assist with the adoption of <IR> globally. <IR> is currently being trialed in 25 countries around the world, with PepsiCo...
Wise Awards are now open!!
Entries for the 2020 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards are open until January 15. The awards celebrate innovative projects around the world for their positive contributions to education and to society. Six projects will be picked in September 2020 and will each receive $20,000 (USD). You can check out previous winners here including New Zealand project Te Kotahitanga (University of Waikato). WISE is...
Christian Silver’s TEDxYouth talk
Christian Silver has recently given a talk in Auckland at the independently organised TEDxYouth event. Christian spoke about his Decode system, which aims to promote programming amongst youth and to help people understand how they can make the most out of new technologies. Christian was a participant at both StrategyNZ and EmpowerNZ and you can read more about his project on...
LivingStandardsNZ Day One: GEN Conference
Today the LivingstandardsNZ Workshop kicked off with participants attending the Government Economics Network Conference at Te Papa. The topic of the conference was ‘modern economic methods for robust policy analysis‘ and participants were fortunate enough to hear from a diverse range of talented speakers. First up was John FitzGerald from the Economic and Social Research Institute...
A bit of fun for Tuesday night!
Our Reform pizza evening is fast approaching. Join us this Tuesday to listen to Kimberley Trewhitt and Tara Macpherson from UK think tank Reform, who will be speaking on strengthening our long term fiscal position. Delicious pizza and drinks provided! Send an RSVP email to Renata at [email protected] if you haven’t already.
Explore the world’s constitutions
A new project developed by the Comparative Constitutions Project with seed funding from Google has recently been launched. Constitute allows users to read, compare and search 160 constitutions around the world. The beautiful website allows you to pick from hundreds of themes, as specific as ‘trial in native language of accused’ to broad characteristics...
A third of environmental promises are being broken, says researcher
The Institute recently came across an interesting investigation revealing that more than a third of environmental promises are being broken by resource consent holders in New Zealand. We caught up with University of Waikato PhD candidate Marie Brown to find out more about her the results of her investigation. Marie studied science and law at...
Final call for flight to Mars
The deadline for applications to join the Mars One mission is fast approaching. According to the Mars One website living on Mars will be ‘no picnic’ but that hasn’t stopped the 165,000 people from 140 countries applying to be among the first humans sent to Mars. Mars One has estimated the cost of putting the...
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