Evaluating the effectiveness of climate reporting

Ironic that in the very same week we are discussing the Government’s mandatory climate related disclosure statements when applied to the financial services industry (among others) we learn that one of the world’s biggest banks has now elected to exit the New Zealand retail market citing among other reasons increasing regulation. Again, we see another example of the New Zealand consumer has been disadvantaged because of ideology.

A recent survey of businesses found that in the business sector there is high discontent with the current government. They are seen as incompetent, interfering, bereft of knowledge of issues affecting the business sector, and failing across a wide range of non-business fields as well.

This government seems unable to achieve anything substantial accept adding more cost & complexity to business. This might be music to the ears of the ever-burgeoning number of Wellington bureaucrats but as the country now struggles to come out of recession, we simply cannot afford to have ideological driven regulation applied to an industry as critical for a recovery as financial services.

@amused: what you've well described is aka "job creation".