From 11:59pm on Friday 25 March the COVID-19 Protection Framework will be simpler. It will help us manage life with Omicron while reducing the impact of future outbreaks.

Posted on 16 March 2022, this advice provides the latest for travel under covid-19 restrictions

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment recently completed a public consultation on: Building for Climate Change: Transforming operational efficiency and reducing whole-of-life embodied carbon.

This is your chance to have your say. There are three connected proposals covered by the consultation. The first looks at improvements to the household kerbside recycling system, including access to food scrap collections.

Key information for the waste, resource recovery and CLM sectors. This update shares key information about the Government’s response to COVID-19. It is intended to provide consistent information across central government, local government, CDEM and our key partners.

What you need to know about the plastic pollution resolution. Today, the gavel came down on a historic resolution at the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) in Nairobi to end plastic pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024.

MfE consultation closes 18 March 2022. The Environmental Reporting Act 2015 (ERA) provides the framework for independent, structure and regular reports on the state of New Zealand's environment.

The report, agreed to by 195 countries, includes a whole chapter dedicated to Australia and New Zealand. Specific impacts for Aotearoa New Zealand include: more rain, clean ice glacier retreat, more droughts and extreme fire weather, increased rainfall intensity, more severe cyclones.

Following feedback from businesses, the Ministry of Health is simplifying the documentation required by critical workers accessing rapid antigen tests under the Close Contact Exemption Scheme.