Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

People are optimistic about the future.

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.