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Policy Point: Is climate change a key risk to global financial stability?

At the end of October, governor of the Reserve Bank Adrian Orr boldly asserted in a speech that climate change is “a key risk to global financial stability.” He made the case for urgent “transformation” as an “important, imminent, and personal” issue. Although the Reserve Bank Act does not mention climate change, the RBNZ is responsible for financial stability. Read more

Dr Bryce Wilkinson

Policy Point

2 November, 2020

How can we safely scale-up our MIQ system?

There is a real chance that Kiwis will miss out on celebrating Christmas at home, because spaces in managed isolation are booking out fast. From now on, everyone traveling back to New Zealand needs a voucher for their two-week quarantine. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive - Newstalk ZB

2 November, 2020

Orr adds more heat than light on emissions

Last week the Governor of the Reserve Bank Adrian Orr issued a call to action on climate change. Titled “Progressing Climate Action by Driving Transformational Change” it sounded like a political stump speech. Read more

Stuff

2 November, 2020

NZers don't realise how unlucky they are

In an opinion piece in the NZ Herald, Oliver Hartwich argued that New Zealanders are actually quite unlucky right now. He discusses this column with Jesse Mulligan on Radio NZ and explains why he thinks we are going wrong and why we don't appear to know it. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan - Radio NZ

30 October, 2020

Podcast #32: Matt Burgess on the RBNZ’s curious climate speech

In this week’s New Zealand initiative podcast, a speech by Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr touched on climate change and social transformation as part of his thinking in achieving future financial stability. But the content of the speech caught the attention of analyst Matt Burgess not necessarily for what was said, but what the governor left out. Read more

Podcast

30 October, 2020

The New Zealand World Order

It all finally started coming together in the 2021 Budget. The pieces existed before it, but nobody had put them together. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

Insights Newsletter

30 October, 2020

We don't know how unlucky we are in NZ

All eyes are on New Zealand. In the lead-up to the election, Time magazine admired our "calmer democracy." The World Health Organisation once again praised our Covid-19 management. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

NZ Herald

28 October, 2020

Election result a call to action

The sense of relief was palpable as the long election campaign finally ended. It is even better that the result delivered a clear mandate without the need of compromises, deal-making and brinkmanship. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Insights Newsletter

23 October, 2020

Taking wellbeing seriously

In 2018, the Labour-led Government proudly released its first wellbeing budget. It would be great if Labour uses its second term to truly focus on wellbeing. Read more

Dr Bryce Wilkinson

Insights Newsletter

23 October, 2020

Climate policy and how this can be used for an effective Covid strategy

Eric Crampton talks to Bryan Crump on Radio NZ Nights about the problem with climate policy and how this can be utilised for an effective Covid recovery.

The New Zealand Initiative · Eric Crampton the problem with climate policy Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

Radio NZ - Nights

21 October, 2020

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