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Honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi:

Tangata whenua and tangata Tiriti co-design solutions to address climate change, using a whole-system lens and prioritising tino rangatiratanga, for the benefit of land and people.

Urgency:

The window for reducing greenhouse gases to achieve a climate-safe world has almost closed. Immediate and transformative change to most human systems is required if we are to minimise species extinction and ecosystem collapse.

Ecological Wisdom:

We must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to safe ecological and atmospheric limits, and sequester CO2 to allow the regeneration of ecosystems harmed by climate change.

Global Responsibilities:

Aotearoa New Zealand, a relatively wealthy country with high per capita and historic emissions, has a legal and moral obligation to provide international leadership by reducing emissions and providing climate finance to emerging economies, especially in the Pacific.