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Research Outline
Prepared for Millie | Delivered February 3, 2020
New Zealand Parties Environmental Stance
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Goals
To find the environmental stances of 6 NZ minor parties:
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Early Findings
TOP Party
The Opportunities Party (TOP) have a stance that the conomy should not grow at
the expense
of the environment.
The party wants to
invest more
in the environment.
Environmental policy proposals from the TOP include charging polluters for the environmental damage caused, protecting oceans, charging a
$20 tourist tax,
and improving river water cleanliness.
The TOP party is proposing to finance an
afforestation program
on erosion-prone lands.
They plan to release a whole climate change
policy this month.
Social Credit
The Social Credit party's stance is that the ecological aspect should always be taken into account when taking
governmental decisions.
It proposes to establish a New Zealand
Environmental Research Institute.
The party is also in favor of reducing waste and protect the
marine environment.
New Conservatives
The New Conservatives party is in favor of
rejecting the ETS,
as well as the Paris and Kyoto agreements.
Their environmental policies include reducing commercial fishing in some areas, and
investing in R&D
to tackle some pollution problems.
The party's stance on climate change is
ambiguous.
Legalise Cannabis Party
The party does not have specific
environmental policies.
All its policies are focused on the use and agriculture of cannabis and its
legalisation.
The Mana Movement and Vision New Zealand.
These two parties do not have functioning websites, the Mana party page is
not available
and the Vision New Zealand party only has a
Facebook page.
They do not seem to have specific environmental policies.
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