Speeches 

Financial security, energy security and climate change

David Parker

09.09.2008

Speech notes for address to Waimate Grey Power (monthly members' meeting). Waimate Town and Country Club

Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. 

My special thanks go to your President David Holmes and Secretary Klasina Holmes for the invitation. New Zealanders put in an extraordinary amount of voluntary work maintaining community groups, and I understand that...  more +

Tackling climate change downunder

David Parker

18.08.2008

The Australian Government’s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol last year was an important milestone. It provided greater opportunity for our countries to work together and to learn from each other, as we look for ways to bring about the changes needed. Both of our countries are moving to establish emissions trading schemes. This will be a cornerstone of our responses to climate change. It will see the cost of greenhouse gas emissions reflected in our economies, into all investment decisions. Increases in emissions cost. Lower emissions are rewarded. To be efficient an emissions trading scheme must create a marginal cost for increases in emissions and a marginal benefit for decreases. Both our schemes do this.

Address at the opening of the 4th Australia and New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference

5.45pm, 18 August 2008

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Sharing the burden on climate change

David Parker

29.07.2008

Address to the Post-2012 Burden Sharing Symposium 8.50am, 29 July 2008, National Library Auditorium, Wellington

Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here.  I've been asked to talk about 'sharing the burden of climate change'.  Of course, that means all of us playing our part.  It is unfortunate that the language on this topic is in itself loaded to the negative.  "Playing our ...  more +