This Budget is full of Green wins. The most obvious is the $2.9 Billion investment to implement the many initiatives in the Emissions Reduction Plan, but it doesn't stop there. With our Cooperation Agreement, we've also secured important work programmes to continue looking after our environment and our communities. Take a look at our Green budget wins below.

Over the last four years, the Greens in Government have laid the foundations for climate action in every part of Aotearoa. The Emissions Reduction Plan(ERP) is a landmark all-of-Government plan to cut climate pollution in a way that makes life better for everyone, protects nature, and improves our communities.The Emissions Reduction Plans comes following decades of calling for climate action and years of negotiations led by Green Party Co-leader and Climate Minister, James Shaw. Paid for by polluters through the...

Thomas and Yadana for Pōneke - Greater Wellington Regional Council. 

Join them and the team to learn more about their campaign and how you could be involved. There will be music, kai and a chance to chat about particular issues and what’s what for this election.

It’s make or break for the climate now, so every council needs to step it up. That’s their cast iron commitment to Wellington.

 

They would love to see you there.

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Aotearoa can be a place where Te Tiriti o Waitangi is honoured in full, the injustices caused by colonisation can be redressed, and our people and taiao can be healed as we head into the future. But colonisation – including governmental policies of land dispossession – has resulted in most land in Aotearoa being alienated from tangata whenua. This legacy along with continued detachment from whenua constitute the most significant factors in why Māori experience so many disproportionately negative outcomes...

Right now is a critical period for climate action. I’m sure you know that even by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we cannot eliminate climate damage. It’s already here, it’s already happening. But, we can reduce it. The next 10 years will be “make or break" for the planet. We need to do everything we can to increase the number of seats the Greens have in Parliament at the next election. That's where you come...

We have a real chance to build resilient, more vibrant communities.   Right now there are pivotal decisions being made about the future of Wellington. By ensuring smart decisions are made now, we can deliver fast, clean transport that puts Wellington on track to a climate-friendly future. We can make getting around by bike and public transport fast and easy. And we can build affordable, green homes, close to jobs, schools, shops and parks. 

We're thinking ahead to truly tackle the challenges we face as a community.

Aaron Hawkins is currently serving his first term as Mayor, after two terms as a city councillor. He grew up in and around Invercargill, before moving to Dunedin to study at the University of Otago in 2002. After graduating with a B.A. in Media, Film and Communications he worked at Radio One 91FM, and as a freelance writer for various print and online publications. Since first being elected in 2013, Mayor Hawkins has focused on supporting our community’s social and environmental wellbeing,...

City Councillor Brent Barrett works and votes to help make Palmerston North a future-ready city where everyone thrives.  With a background in environmental advocacy and continued professional involvement in agri-science, Brent brings long term, solution-oriented thinking to his work representing the city’s constituents.   His main interests include transport and the environment, with a fair sprinkling of social justice.  In responding to the climate and ecological crisis we face, Brent is working to build consensus and deliver practical climate action at...

Jessica Rose is a current elected member of Whau Board. She was previously elected to the Albert-Eden local board and has been an active community resident for many years with organisations such as Frocks on Bikes, Women in Urbanism Aotearoa, and Bike Auckland. She’s a certified project manager with extensive experience in the public and private sectors. She brings experience in good governance to urgent local action in climate and environmental protection, housing affordability, and economic resilience. She is an...