Businesses do not benefit from a system that fails to properly screen applicants for a job, it says.
Commerce Minister Andrew Bayly: ‘When people have a choice that creates the opportunity for competition.’
'These decisions will not be easy, but failure to confront land use issues will not make them disappear. It will simply commit us further to degrading our environment. This may, in fact, be the direction we choose to take,' report says.
NZ Green Investment Finance reckons big emitters such as Fonterra would have more incentive to invest in decarbonisation if there was a price to pay.
It will shift the goal posts to make it appear the Government is making things better, says Barbara Edmonds.
Labour says the deals will fail without proper funding.
It found the organisation had insufficient focus on financial discipline.
‘MYAs are a looser form of control over public spending compared with annual appropriations.’
More user pays needed to help fund investment.
Policy fluctuations create the risk of sunk costs, business groups say.