Statement of Intent 2006–2009
1 May 2006
This Statement of Intent sets out our long-term strategic direction and the forecast financial statements for the coming year.
Environmental sustainability remains the key to ensuring New Zealand's future well-being. Global environmental concerns such as climate change and the decline of biodiversity have demonstrated that ecosystem function is the ultimate bottom line. Our challenge is to redesign how society's needs and wants are met within the ecological limits of the planet today and into the future.
My priorities for future work have been drawn from consideration of environmental systems at risk, the drivers placing pressure on these systems and the environmental management response.