Auckland Conversations

How climate-ready is Auckland? New Zealand is a truly desirable destination. It’s clean and green, people make money launching home-grown rockets and creating movies, and we see ourselves as fun and fair. But how true is our perception of being green, innovative and fair? Are we really ready for climate change or are we in for a big surprise? Is our growth and change a liability? Auckland is growing and changing but this doesn’t need to be a liability. Instead, it’s an opportunity to harness new energy, ideas and collective power to transition to an Auckland that is cleaner and fairer. Other cities and nations have shown that GDP, population, climate readiness – even happiness – can rise rapidly while emissions fall sharply. What does a just and prosperous transition look like? Our most vulnerable – including Māori and Pasifika communities – are most impacted by climate change and will continue to be so. Doing nothing on climate means turning our back on our most vulnerable and creating greater inequali