The Wire with Joel

This week on the Wire we're looking at environment policy for our election coverage. 

Jemima speaks to Māori Party co-leader John Tamihere about the importance of environmental policies. 

Hanna talks to Oxfam New Zealand Campaign Lead Alex Johnston about whether New Zealand's emissions targets are good enough. 

Jemima wraps it up with a two part conversation with Emily Bailey from Climate Justice Taranaki and Rosemary Penwarden from Oil Free Otago about the future of oil and gas exploration in Aotearoa. 

This week Zoë Larsen Cumming has a pretty broad chat with the Green Party co-leader James Shaw on the dairy industry, New Zealand’s waterways and their Farming For Future Plan. They also chat about the lack of Māori issues brought up in the first leaders debate, and why we only have debates with two party leaders when we have an MMP system. They also touch on how the world failed to meet a single target to stop the destruction of nature and why climate change is presented as a partisan issue. Big stuff! Check it out. 

Today on the Wire: 

Zoë Larsen Cumming has her weekly chat with the Green Party co-leader James Shaw on the dairy industry, our water ways, the Farming for Future plan, debates under MMP, and international climate agreements. 

Producer Aneeka Moheed interview Kevin Hackwell, chief conservation advisor for Forest&Bird, about the country's wallaby problem.

Then, Zoë interviews the unofficial leader of Save The Canal Road Trees, Steve Abel, on the 80 day long protest to save native trees from being cut down in Avondale. 

Finally, Aneeka brings a report on the Jobs for Nature Programme.

Aneeka brings us a report on the Department of Conservation's, Jobs for Nature Programme. Within the $1.3bn being invested in environmental work under the government's Covid-19 recovery plan, $200m is going towards this programme which will hopefully cement conservation efforts in Aotearoa as stimulate jobs for a growing number of Kiwis in struggling industries.