This Member’s Bill sets out the Green Party’s plan to move Aotearoa New Zealand towards a safe climate future, by divesting all public funds from fossil fuel industries. Why are we doing this? We’re working hard to create a future that we can be proud to pass on to our kids and our grandkids, and we want New Zealanders to look back on today and know that we did everything we could to prevent the climate crisis. We know that...

As the largest publicly owned investor in New Zealand, the ACC board should divest from fossil fuels, demonstrating our leadership role on climate change, Green Party MP Chlöe Swarbrick said today.

A publically owned ACC should ensure world class treatment, rehabilitation, and compensation for all New Zealanders, promoting quality of life and ethical investment. ACC should remain publicly owned Pay-as-you-go funding with a mix of general taxation and predictable levies should encourage the best possible outcomes for clients, not the best financial outcome for ACC. ACC’s focus on injury prevention should be strengthened and coordinated with other preventative health programmes. ACC should aim to restore quality of life Rehabilitation to the...

Information uncovered by the Green Party showing the Government’s $31 billion ACC Investment Fund has been illegally investing New Zealanders’ money into cluster munitions companies is further evidence of National’s disregard for the laws and ethics of investment. The Green Party asked the ACC Fund in November 2015 whether it had any exposure to illegal investments in cluster munitions companies through pooled or collective investment vehicles. Seventy-six working days later*, the ACC Fund admitted that it had $1.4 million invested...