THE POLICIES
LABOUR
• Continue applying five-year budgets set by Zero Carbon Act
• Continue to support the Predator Free 2050 strategy and develop new tools
• Implement freshwater reforms that set higher health standards at swimming spots and new requirements for farmers
• Repeal and replace the Resource Management Act
NATIONAL
• Ask the Climate Change Commission to review methane targets
• Advocate use of new technologies in wiping out pest predators
• Repeal and replace new freshwater rules, work with farmers and environmentalists on new ones
• Scrap the RMA and give effect to review recommendations within first term.
GREENS
• Implement the Predator Free 2050 Strategy and Biodiversity Strategy.
• Advocate a resource rental for commercial water users, along with a bottom line for dissolved inorganic nitrogen.
• Implement a Clean Energy Plan to help end coal use by 2030 and industrial fossil gas use by 2035.
• Require the finance sector to disclose climate risks.
• Set a 10-year moratorium on seabed mining and protect a third of New Zealand’s oceans by 2030
ACT
• Replace Zero Carbon Act and Emissions Trading Scheme with a new climate plan
• Repeal ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration permits, allow mining in “low conservation” areas
• Repeal and replace RMA with new law
• Require councils to commit to short- and long-term water quality objectives
MĀORI PARTY
• End new onshore oil and gas permits and withdraw existing onshore and offshore oil and gas permits within five years
• Establish fund for Māoriowned community energy projects
• Stop mining on conservation land, reserves and significant natural areas
• Advocate Māori proprietary, customary, and decisionmaking rights and interests to freshwater
• Ban new consents for water bottling plants until a new allocation system is developed
NZ FIRST
• Improve water storage in poor and rural communities through Provincial Growth Fund.
• Support Predator Free 2050 through PGF grants.
• Prioritise research into a cure for kauri dieback disease.