Work priorities

Though we work on a very wide range of environment-related issues, our key priorities at present are:

• Air quality
• Climate change
• Contaminated sites
• Freshwater quality and allocation, especially:
  • Sustainable water programme of action
  • Lake Taupo and Rotorua lakes
• Improving environmental legislation and practice under that legislation, especially:
  • Resource Management Act 1991
  • Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996.
• Sustainability
• Sustainable industry
• Urban issues
• Waste, especially:
  • Implementation of Packaging Accord
  • Product stewardship
  • Disposal of special wastes such as electronic waste

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