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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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Farming Green: Not an Oxymoron

25 Nov 2008

I want to start by setting out the substantial areas of common ground I believe we have.

First, that food production is hugely important and valuable – both because it provides the largest part of NZ’s livelihood in the world economy, and because we live in a hungry world. There is no doubt that pressures to feed an expanding world population will increase.

Fitzsimons visits the future on the last day of campaign

07 Nov 2008

Today Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons visited a junior school under construction which incorporates a number of heating and energy initiatives, making it one of the most efficient schools in the country.

A Party Vote for the Green Party is a vote for:

06 Nov 2008

A Party Vote for the Green Party is a vote for:

  • reducing NZ’s oil dependence and climate change emissions
  • improving public transport and the rail system
  • cleaning up our waterways
  • increased protection of threatened species and ecosystems

Obama’s win is a rejection of rightwing politics

05 Nov 2008

The victory of Barack Obama in the United States presidential election is a rejection of old rightwing politics. George Bush effectively blocked moves to take action against climate change. With a new, more reasonable President in the Oval Office we hope the world will see big steps towards this major challenge being addressed.

Another town, another highway

04 Nov 2008

The Green Party today warned communities along the path of John Key’s election schedule to cancel all appointments with the would-be Prime Minister or risk having a multi-lane highway fast-tracked through their town.
 

Act’s zero tolerance for original ideas

02 Nov 2008

While the Green Party are pleased we are so high in the polls that Act is spending its small broadcasting allocation to attack us, we’d much rather they observed their own policy of ‘zero tolerance for crime’, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

Labour’s transport policy: more cars

31 Oct 2008

“Despite Labour’s rhetoric of sustainability and some baby steps towards this, their newly released transport policy is business as usual: more funding for roads,” Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
 
“Labour’s main initiative on sustainability is...more cars. Electric cars.

Key cornered on different ETS versions

30 Oct 2008

John Key’s attempts to evade discussing his party’s position on the Emissions Trading Scheme came to an abrupt end today when he was cornered by Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons in a Paraparaumu mall.

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