New Zealand Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament - sustainability as core


	New Zealand Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament - sustainability as core

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/af0d6b07-94b8-4f83-8d60-461cd0a6e726/2BCA216C-C8D1-4B6A-AD9B-A43CD6F6F630/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0" href="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0" style="font-size: 11px;">www.beehive.govt.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0"><H2>Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0">New Zealand's future is dependent on long term sustainable strategies for our economy, society, environment, culture and way of life. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0"><P>The invisible hand of the market doesn't deliver a sustainable nation, as an earlier era of New Zealand politics showed only too well.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0"><P>Now the quest for sustainability has taken on a new urgency because of the scale of the environmental challenge the world faces.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0"><P>Traditional patterns of development and fast growing populations have put an intolerable strain on the planet. The future economic costs of doing nothing are dire.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0"><P>That's why issues around sustainability and climate change have become the compelling issues of our times, dominating international forums and agendas.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0"><P>Without a commitment to greater sustainability in our resource use and way of life, we risk not only damaging our own environment, but also exposing our economy to significant risk.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime+minister%e2%80%99s+statement+parliament+0">we can aspire to be carbon neutral in our economy and way of life.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2BCA216C-C8D1-4B6A-AD9B-A43CD6F6F630/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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