Rod Oram presented on New Zealand's economic challenges and opportunities for sustainability. He argued that New Zealand suffers from slow economic growth ("slowth") and needs to develop business strategies to build capacity and value to increase wages and living standards. While the government aims to double the size of the economy in 15 years, the current commodity-focused primary sector model will not support that level of growth. Oram also emphasized the need to reinvent urban communities and economies to make them more sustainable and reinvigorated for the 21st century. Facing resource constraints and a responsibility to sustain its land and oceans, New Zealand must develop new values and systems of collaboration.