Jeanette Fitzsimons MP
Jeanette Fitzsimons is one of the Green Party Co-Leaders and has been an MP since 1996.
Jeanette has been contributing to the energy debate in New Zealand since the nuclear power controversy of the seventies and has published on energy efficiency, sustainable energy and climate change. Her Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act, passed in May 2000, forms the framework for current policy on sustainable energy.
From 1980 until 1992 Jeanette taught in the Department of Planning at Auckland University, tutoring and lecturing in Environmental Studies and Energy Planning. During this time she published widely on the public policy aspects of energy and transport planning, management of hazardous substances, climate change, resource management and consumerism. She has also worked as a consultant for local authorities, regional councils and government departments on these issues, and worked with the government to develop the Land Transport Management Act.
When not in Wellington on Parliamentary business, Jeanette lives with husband Harry on an organic off-the-grid farm in the Coromandel.
Green Party Spokesperson for: Climate Change, Energy, Finance & Revenue, Genetic Engineering, Research, Science & Technology, Sustainable Economics, Transport, Treaty Issues (Assoc)
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Climate Snippets 4 July
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Sustainability, Inequality and Policy
03 Jul 2008I make no claim to be a geographer, having barely scraped a pass in University Scholarship geography and taken the subject no further, but I did teach for some years in the Dept of Planning at Auckland Uni. where the geographers from time to time tried to assimilate the Planners, on the basis that they were the same discipline.
Trucking must pay its way - Greens
03 Jul 2008It is time to stop subsidising the trucking industry and price transport on a level playing field if New Zealand is to make the transition to a sustainable economy, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
Resource Management (Climate Protection) Amendment Bill — Second Reading
02 Jul 2008This bill was written at the end of 2004, after the Government had amended the Resource Management Act to remove the powers of regional councils to consider climate change matters when they were issuing air discharge consents and in making regional plans that dealt with air discharge consents.
Waste Minimisation (Solids) Bill — Second Reading
02 Jul 2008I am delighted to be the final speaker in the second reading debate on the Waste Minimisation (Solids) Bill. I start by congratulating my colleague Nandor Tanczos on the incredible determination he has shown over the last 2 years. He picked up this bill from Mike Ward, who introduced it to Parliament and helped to develop it.
Land Transport Management Amendment Bill — Second Reading
02 Jul 2008The Greens support the second reading of the Land Transport Management Amendment Bill, subject to some minor tweaking to the Supplementary Order Paper at the Committee stage, which I am sure will be no problem for the Government. I want to talk about two main issues today in this second reading speech.
Open letter receives closed response
02 Jul 2008John Key has finally responded to Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons’ open letter in which she requested details of National’s preferred Emissions Trading Scheme.
Ms Fitzsimons says she is extremely disappointed at Key’s uninformative response, in which he says ‘I note the concerns and issues you raised’ but declines to answer any of the specific questions put to him.
Greens challenge Fonterra on milk price
Jeanette Fitzsimons wants milk to be affordable for all New Zealand families. Fonterra are invited to meet this challenge.
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