Faster action on climate change may be possible if nations combine substantial cuts of carbon dioxide emissions alongside accelerated moves across a suite of other greenhouse gases and pollutants.

Research presented this week at the Public Health Association Conference in Dunedin proposes that many New Zealand households should be eligible for a smartcard to help them buy healthy food.

18 August 2009 - New Zealand aid worker Seth Le Leu lives in no man's land, within the crossfire of international conflict.

Cairns, August 06, 2009 - Climate change poses an existential threat to the Pacific Island countries and may further aggravate conflicts over increasingly scarce resources, a high-level panel warned today at the Pacific Island Forum in Cairns, Australia.

Wednesday 24 June 2009

Several of world's leading voices in the global food crisis debate gather in Dunedin this weekend for the University of Otago's 44th Foreign Policy School.

22 June 2009 - Kiwi actress Keisha Castle-Hughes leaves for the Cook Islands today, to sail with Greenpeace and document climate impacts in the Pacific.

5 June 2009 - A symposium on food safety and food security being held today, 5 June, in Tokyo is a further opportunity for Japan and New Zealand to renew their partnership in food, says the NZ International Business Forum.

25 May 2009 - A new toolkit detailing and celebrating projects to improve food security for Maori is being launched by the Obesity Action Coalition today.

28 January 2009 - Urgent action is needed to prevent hundreds of millions more people slipping into hunger as a result of volatile food prices and increasing energy and water scarcity, said international agency Oxfam today.

18 December 2008 - On behalf of the Green Party may I congratulate you on your new role, Mr Speaker, and thank the Clerks office for its excellent management of the House this year.