Average global temps. June 2023 – August 2024: > 1.5°C above pre-industrial average*
*Average temperature 1850-1900 (pre-industrial):13.84°C
Forty countries including Aotearoa have declared a climate emergency. In 2023, the COP host country, United Arab Emirates, used climate talks to make oil and gas deals with multiple countries. The President of COP28 continues with his oil company’s record investment in oil and gas production. The President of COP29 (this year) is another oil executive.
In 2021, the UN launched the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration because nature-based solutions must triple by 2030 to counter the dual climate and environmental crises.
In 2024 the New Zealand Government gave itself the power to exempt parts of the country from any or all of the Resource Management Act requirements, enabling the destruction of biodiversity and pollution of rivers and coasts. It also scrapped every positive action to reduce emissions, ignoring both the MfE ‘Our atmosphere and climate’ report and the Climate Change Commission’s latest report. It plans to open up conservation lands to mining and the ocean to drilling for oil and gas.
This puts us on a catastrophic path to the future, turning Aotearoa into a ‘pariah state’.
The story of climate change:
Native ecosystems, te taiao, are essential in helping us mitigate and adapt to climate change:
“The time is now, Ināia tonu nei, to lead the change we want to see and to remain steadfast to the values that underpin our nationhood—values like whanaungatanga kaitiakitanga and manaakitanga.” – Climate Change Commission
What we’re doing to restore our native ecosystems, te manu o te taiao, and tackle climate change. Every project, big and small, includes resources to help you become climate resilient: