Environmental impact assessment
Assessment of the environmental consequences of a decision before action
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| March 24 2025 |
Resource Management Act 1991
Bishop and Simon Court announced details of a new legislative framework to replace the RMA system, including a Planning Act and a Natural Environment Act.
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| October 23 2024 |
Resource Management Act 1991
Government passed the Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Act to ease regulatory burden on primary industries.
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| September 20 2024 |
Resource Management Act 1991
Bishop announced plans to introduce two new laws to replace the Resource Management Act, focusing on managing environmental effects and enabling urban development.
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| April 2024 | Ten green groups called for a veto of the San Tin project's environmental impact assessment, criticizing it as 'the worst wetland assessment since EIA regulations came into place in 1998'. |
| April 23 2024 |
Resource Management Act 1991
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop announced plans to remove intensive winter grazing regulations and modify environmental restrictions.
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| December 19 2023 |
Resource Management Act 1991
National-led coalition government repealed the NBA and SPA laws through the Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Act.
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| August 23 2023 |
Resource Management Act 1991
Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Acts received royal assent.
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| 2022 |
Life-cycle assessment
A comprehensive dataset was created providing standardized calculated environmental impacts for over 57,000 food products in supermarkets, potentially supporting consumer awareness and policy-making.
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| 2021 | ESG reporting requirements changed in the EU and UK, with the EU beginning to enforce the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) to unify climate risk disclosures across the private sector by 2023. |
| February 10 2021 |
Resource Management Act 1991
Labour Government confirmed replacing the RMA with three separate acts: Natural and Built Environment Act, Spatial Planning Act, and Climate Change Adaptation Bill.
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| 2020 | The Government of India proposed a controversial EIA 2020 Draft, which was widely criticized by environmental groups for potentially weakening environmental protections. |
| September 14 2020 | The new CEQ rule went into effect, marking the first update to environmental assessment regulations since 1978. The rule limits Environmental Assessment (EA) duration to 1 year and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) duration to 2 years, and prevents consideration of cumulative environmental impacts including climate change. |
| July 2020 | President Donald Trump moved to significantly weaken NEPA by proposing new CEQ regulations that would limit environmental assessment durations and exempt certain projects from review. |
| May 3 2020 |
Resource Management Act 1991
The Minister for the Environment announced amendments to the RMA to allow fast-tracking of selected projects as part of COVID-19 economic recovery.
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| May 3 2020 |
Resource Management Act 1991
Government announced amendments to fast-track selected projects through the RMA as part of COVID-19 economic recovery plan.
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| 2019 |
Carbon monitoring
The federal budget specifically assured continued funding for CMS after the Trump administration had proposed to end its funding.
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| 2014 |
Life-cycle assessment
A study was conducted comparing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) databases about buildings, demonstrating ongoing efforts to analyze complex product lifecycle assessments.
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| April 16 2014 | Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive was amended by Directive 2014/52/EU. |
| 2013 |
Resource Management Act 1991
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Jan Wright criticized planned amendments, stating the RMA should not become an economic development act.
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| December 13 2011 | Directive 2011/92/EU was issued, codifying the previous EIA Directive and its amendments. |
| September 2011 | The government's appeal regarding the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge EIA was allowed, with the court case estimated to have increased construction costs by HK$6.5 billion. |
| April 2011 | The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the Hong Kong section of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge was found to have breached the ordinance and was declared unlawful. |
| 2010 |
Carbon monitoring
NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) was created by congressional order to provide grants for climate research measuring carbon dioxide and methane emissions.
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