In his address to delegates at COP29 November 2024, the president of the host country, Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev told the UN climate conference that oil and gas are a “gift of God”.
Aliyev criticised “Western fake news” about the country’s emissions, while the country plans to expand gas production by up to a third over the next decade.
This year, 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’.
Forty countries including Aotearoa have declared a climate emergency. To help us understand and respond to the emergency this website is in 3 sections:
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: