Policy papers

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Guidelines covering expert advice from the Royal Society of New Zealand

• Backbone Funding for National Collections and Databases - Response to MoRST discussion documents on backbone funding and public access to research data. (June 2007, pdf 128kB).  Written in conjunction with the Biodiversity Committee.
  
• Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change (March 2007; pdf 147 kB) - response to discussion document from Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
  
• Response to Draft Energy Strategy from the Ministry of Economic Development (March 2007; pdf 139 kB) 
  
• Use of Human Gametes and Embryos in Research (February 2007; pdf 148 kB) - response to the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technologies
• Freedom and responsibility in science - response to questionnaire from the International Council for Scientific Unions' Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science, with particular reference to the (lack of) biological and toxic weapons research under the BTW Convention. (February 2007)
  
• Response to the Draft Environment Roadmap  (November 2006)
• A Strategic Overview of the Science and Innovation System in New Zealand (November 2006)
• 2020: Energy Opportunities report from the Energy Panel (October 2006)
• Response to the Draft Second Tertiary Education Strategy (October 2006)
  
• Submission by the Biodiversity Committee to MoRST's Environment Research Roadmap (October 2006)
  
• Submission on the Business Tax Review (September 2006)
• Stem Cell Research policy page updated (September 2006)
• Use of Human Tissues in Unspecified Future Research (August 2006)
• National Science Panel : statement of purpose (April 2006)
• The Energy Panel of the Royal Society of New Zealand’s response to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's questions on barriers facing microgeneration (March 2006)
  
• Letter to Minister of Conservation regarding native snail Powelliphanta augustus (March 2006)
• MEDSAFE fees increase proposal (February 2006)
• More Stable Funding. A response to MoRST (February 2006)
• Interim advice to the MoRST energy roadmapping team (December 2005)
• Synopsis of advice from the Society's Energy Panel to the new Minister of Energy (November 2005)
  
• Briefing for the Incoming Minister (October 2005)
• If creative scientists sustain New Zealand's knowledge economy, how is science education doing? Insights from recent university science graduates. Scott Koslow, University of Waikato (pdf, 575K) (2005)
• Women in Science - a Royal Society Overview. (June 2005)
• Biodiversity Committee contribution to the review of the Outcome Based Investment process (May 2005)
• Submission on the Management of New Zealand's Freshwater Resources (March 2005)
• Distinctiveness Among Tertiary Education Organisations (August 2004)
• Biotechnology Science Discovery Futurewatch (June 2004) (PDF, 860K).
• Tax incentives for R&D: the issues analysed (April 2004) (PDF, 500K)
• How can research afford big capital items? Response to MoRST’s discussion paper (April 2004)
• Science and Technology Capabilities in New Zealand A Response to MoRST (March 2004)
• A light to the future: The Case for Synchrotron Science (November 2003)
• Royal Society initiatives in relation to Mâori (September 2003)
• Biotechnology strategy (June 2003)
• RSNZ Publishing - a case for the national research journals (Oct 2002)
• Human Resources Study - the "Quantum Project" (Oct 2002)
• New Zealand's International Linkages (July 2002)
• Human capital (2002)
• Changes to the HSNO Act, 2002
• Biodiversity (2002)
• Social sciences (2002)
• Harnessing excellence (Feb 2002)
• Mid-course correction: a revised RS&T strategy for New Zealand (2002)
• Manifesto for change (2001) (requires Acrobat)
• Genetic modification (2001)
• Centres of Excellence (2001)
• Cooperative research (2001)
• Stem cell research (2001)
• Climate change (2001)