
Last week I called for 1.3 million hectares of new forest in New Zealand. That’s nearly 5 per cent of our total land area. The obvious question is: How do we pay for it? In my view, the only feasible way is to take a “smorgasbord” approach—that is, to put on the table as many different funding sources and revenue streams we can think of. This is partly because the scale of the target is so vast...