Have you always wanted to be part of the solution, to build a just future for all, and realise that you can’t do it alone? If the answers are yes, then join us at our wānanga aimed to mobilise the community and grow climate action collectively.
Climate Action Now will be a free, all day event with speakers and workshops focusing on some of the issues and solutions identified in Toitū Taranaki 2030.
Our keynote speakers will be Prof Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury, and iwi leader Mike Smith of Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahu. There will be three interactive workshops on:
- energy and transport,
- agriculture, food resilience and reforestation,
- political and social transformation, education and mobilisation.
Background
It will have been five years since we organised our Just Transition Community Conference and Strategy Hui in 2019. We would love to reconnect, energise, inspire one another and invite more people onto our journey. The upcoming gathering is especially needed in this difficult political climate and when communities are facing increasing social and financial struggles. By coming together, we build solidarity and strength.
In March 2021, Climate Justice Taranaki published Toitū Taranaki 2030 – our Community Powered Strategy for a Fast and Just Carbon Neutral Transition, with inputs from other Taranaki groups and unions. The gathering will also be an opportunity to reflect on progress, inject new ideas, update and adapt our strategy as we move forward.
Keynote speakers
Prof Bronwyn Hayward (MNZM, FRSNZ) is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of The Sustainable Citizenship and Civic Imagination Research group at the University of Canterbury. Her research sits at the intersection of sustainability, youth, climate change and democracy. Bronwyn was a member of the Core writing team of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR6 (Synthesis report 2023) and co-lead author of Cities & infrastructure (2022) and lead author of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 Degrees C (2018). She is co-primary investigator with University of Surrey’s Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity, where she leads the CYCLES Children and Youth in Cities lifestyle Evaluation study in 7 world cities. She is also a co-primary investigator of the national Science Challenge Mana Rangatahi, supporting Indigenous young people facing climate change.
Iwi leader Mike Smith, (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) is a climate change activist, a father, grandfather, and an uncle to thousands as a kaumātua from Te Tai Tokerau. With over 30 years’ experience in climate education, and strategic organisation and action in Aotearoa and internationally, Mike co-chairs the Pou Take Āhuarangi, the climate directorate of the National Iwi Chairs Forum, which provides strategic leadership on climate priorities for te aō Māori. In February this year, Mike won the right to sue seven big polluters for their role in causing climate change, in a Supreme Court ruling. The polluters include Fonterra, Z Energy and Genesis Energy, which together are responsible for a third of NZ’s emissions. Mike is preparing for this groundbreaking case focusing on the impact the polluters were having on Mike’s whānau and whenua in the Far North.
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Here’s is a leaflet with our Tentative Program. Please feel free to print a few and hand out to people who may be interested. Looking forward to seeing you all at Te Whare Hononga.
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