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    Are we building harder, hotter cities? The vital importance of urban green spaces
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    Do we know if we're making a difference?

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    How much forestry would be needed to offset warming from agricultural methane?
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    Knowing what's out there: Regulating the environmental fate of chemicals
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    Wellbeing budgets and the environment: A promised land?
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      23 March 2023
      Address at the Environmental Defence Society Conference 2023: Pivot Point
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      16 March 2023
      The start of a series on annual environmental expenditure
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      16 March 2023
      Levelling the playing field – green spaces as vital urban infrastructure
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      1 March 2023
      Address at the New Zealand Agricultural Climate Change Conference 2023
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      17 February 2023
      Resource management reforms falling short
    • A Zero Carbon Act for New Zealand
      In this video, Simon Upton discusses his first report as Commissioner, in which he gives detailed advice to Parliament on plans for a Zero Carbon Act and an independent Climate Commission.
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