Transcript Monitoring Sustainable Development for New Zealand

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Monitoring Sustainable
Development in New Zealand
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Monitoring Sustainable Development in NZ
 Definitions
 Approach Taken
 Content of the Report
 Other Related Projects
 Questions and Discussion
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Definitions: What is sustainable development?
Three Definitions:
 Bruntland
 Rio Declaration
 Johannesburg
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Definitions: What is sustainable development?
Bruntland:
“development that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs”
Rio Declaration:
“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable
development. They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in
harmony with nature”
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Definitions: What is sustainable development?
 Johannesburg
“a collective responsibility to advance and strengthen the
interdependent and mutually reinforcing pillars of sustainable
development – economic development, social development and
environmental protection – at local, national, regional and
global levels”
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Approach taken
 Developed by a cross-agency team
 Provide a national overview
 Aimed at a general audience
 Worked closely to international guidelines
 Fit to New Zealand, by linking with the other indicator
work
 Selected indicators using the United Nations framework,
analysed using the OECD capital model
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Content of the Report
 The New Zealand Context
 New Zealand’s Changing Population
 Environment and Ecosystem Resilience
 Consumption and Resource Use
 Social Cohesion
 People’s Skills and Knowledge
 Economic Growth and Innovation
 Living Standards and Health
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The New Zealand Context
 Mäori perspective
 New Zealand is a small island nation in the South Pacific
 Global influences
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New Zealand’s Changing Population
New Zealand Population
 Population growth is slowing
 Ethnic diversity is increasing
 The population is ageing
 Regional growth patterns are
very diverse
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New Zealand’s Changing Population
 Regional differences can mean population issues are
important in some areas
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New Zealand’s Changing Population
 Population data is fairly well
developed for NZ
 Five-yearly Census of Population
and Dwellings data
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Environment and Ecosystem Resilience
 What the indicators show:
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Air quality is deteriorating in some areas
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Freshwater quality is variable
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Environment and Ecosystem Resilience
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Pests, weeds and diseases continue to threaten
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35 percent of modelled fish stocks are below target level
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Loss of biodiversity
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Environment and Ecosystem Resilience
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Environment and Ecosystem Resilience
 Gaps in our knowledge
 Bridging the gaps
 Science or management?
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Consumption and Resource Use
 What the indicators show
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Household consumption has increased and so to has household waste
Recycling of packaging waste and paper increased
Energy has increased
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Consumption and Resource Use
 Gaps in our knowledge
 Bridging the gaps
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Social Cohesion
 What the indicators show
 Social connectedness
 Human rights
 Culture and identity
 Safety and security
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Social Cohesion
 Gaps in our knowledge
 Bridging the gaps
 Headline indicators?
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Peoples Skills and Knowledge
 Educational achievement is
associated with higher incomes
 New Zealanders are gaining
more qualifications
 We have high rates of
pre-school attendance
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People’s Skills and Knowledge
 Education is a way to raise skills and knowledge
 There is limited information about the total set of people’s
skills
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Economic Growth and Innovation
 New Zealand’s GDP per capita ranking dropped from 1950s
to early 1990s
 Changing balance of industry contributions
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Economic Growth and Innovation
 Increase in international financial interconnections
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Economic Growth and Innovation
 GDP measures formal
economic activity
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Economic Growth and Innovation
 Links between economic activity and environmental or
social outcomes
 UN suggest ‘Total Overseas Development Aid given or
received as a proportion of GDP’
 OECD suggest ‘multifactor productivity growth’
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Living Standards and Health
 Ongoing increase in life expectancy
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Living Standards and Health
 Income and employment rates reflect economic growth
 Differences within New Zealand
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Living Standards and Health
 No measurement of the
impact living standards
have on the environment
 Limited range of health
indicators in the report
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 Other indicator work
 One-number approaches
 Better linkages
 Other presentation styles
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Questions and Discussion
 Does the report add value to what is already available?
 Should it be updated?
 Should another approach be adopted?
 If this report is repeated:
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are there any indicators/topics that should be dropped?
are there any other indicators/topics that should be included?
 Priorities?
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Where to from here?
 Seminars around New Zealand
 Further consultation with interested parties
 Please complete the questionnaire by 31 October
 Indicate interest in taking part in further consultation at the
end of this seminar
 Consultation completed 30 November
 Report on all the feedback will be available end of
December
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Finally…..
The presentation is available on
Statistics New Zealand’s website.
http://www.stats.govt.nz/sustainablenz
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