2010 Lincoln University State of the Nation’s Environment Address

2010 Lincoln University State of the Nation’s Environment Address

Date: Thursday: 7 October 2010

Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm

Venue: Stewart Lecture Theatre 1 Stewart Building, Lincoln University

Alastair Morrison, Director General Department of Conservation, will present:

“Building Biodiversity; Building New Zealand”

New Zealand is searching for a route to greater prosperity. It is doing so in the context of a changing world economic order, an increasingly competitive environment, and a prolonged recession. The base from which to build that greater prosperity will likely be what we have always done well. But that should not create any comfort around the status quo. It will require a radical game change. We need to challenge the conventional way that economic progress is described and measured. We need to manage and allocate our natural capital differently. We need to call in the environmental debt we have built up over generations. We need to give substance to our pride in being a people of the land; people who tread lightly upon it. And we need to translate that pride into market advantage. For those who take fright at the investment required, the challenge is to describe an alternative route.

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