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)
What's New?
What is an Emissions Trading Scheme and why do we need one?
an emissions trading scheme (ETS) is a way to put a price on carbon so that industries that produce greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, pay a price based on how much they emit. This cost should encourage them to find more efficient ways of doing business. This in turn will help us reduces the damage that all countries are doing to the atmosphere and reduce the risk of dangerous climate change.
Greens Support the ETS
Emissions Trading Scheme Climate Change Greenhouse Gases
Greens Support the ETS
Jeanette Fitzsimons announces the Green Party's decision to support the ETS Bill. Part 2 of 3
Greens Support the ETS
Jeanette Fitzsimons announces the Green Party's decision to support the ETS Bill. Part 1 of 3.
Green Party wins major improvements to ETS
26 Aug 2008
The Green Party has decided to support the ETS after winning agreement that money would be recycled into a Billion dollar fund to make New Zealand homes more energy efficient and cheaper to heat. A price on carbon will encourage sustainable alternatives to our energy wasting and unsustainable way of life, but this ETS will only reduce emissions by about 2 percent. Far more than that is needed, and quickly, if the world is to avoid the huge financial and environmental costs of severe climate change.
Watch a video of the announcement and press conference
What is an ETS?
Landslide response to Greens’ call for ETS input
22 Aug 2008The Green Party is facing a busy weekend at the computer as views from the public on their ETS decision flood in.
ETS press conference part 2
The Green Party is preparing to decide which way to vote on the very weak Emissions Trading Scheme proposed by Labour, and are asking Kiwis for their opinion. This is part II, the rest of the questions from journalists. Part I is here.
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ETS press conference
The Green Party is preparing to decide which way to vote on the very weak Emissions Trading Scheme proposed by Labour, and are asking Kiwis for their opinion. This is part one. Part two is here.