Otago Regional Council
Climate change and resilience
Climate change poses a huge challenge for communities as more frequent extreme weather events require us to rethink how we live and where. Local authorities are at the forefront of efforts to respond, with responsibilities for environmental planning and regulation, as well as civil defence. Many councils have plans to reduce emissions in their area and are working to help their communities adapt to a warming world.
Climate change and resilience
Climate change poses a huge challenge for communities as more frequent extreme weather events require us to rethink how we live and where. Local authorities are at the forefront of efforts to respond, with responsibilities for environmental planning and regulation, as well as civil defence. Many councils have plans to reduce emissions in their area and are working to help their communities adapt to a warming world.
Commit to investment in infrastructure projects in response to climate change, ie flood protection schemes, water management schemes.
Ensure a prepared civil defence response by resourcing with competent and committed people.
Ensure the Otago Regional Council meet carbon zero targets as an organisation.
Develop a strategy to ensure that South Dunedin is engineered better to cope with future flooding and weather events.
Adopt a zero waste program that can support other waste reduction policies and advocate better waste management.
Identify significant carbon emissions in Otago and constructively work with emitters to reduce.
Progressively change to electric buses in Otago.
Identify, establish and promote native plantings and wetlands to reduce carbon emissions and improve biodiversity and waterways quality.
Establish a farmer liaison policy to subsidise nitrate, phosphate and E. coli collection systems.
Increase air pollution monitoring systems and encourage the use of pollution filters on motor vehicles.
Introduce free bus fares for children, students and Community Card holders.
Resist unworkable, unscientific, economically reckless virtue-signalling Carbon Zero 2025 targets.
Focus more on climate change adaptation rather than being a world leader in anthropogenic climate change measures.
Embolden civil defence capability by encouraging closer relationship with existing community structures and FENZ expertise.
Create positive plans for areas that need to adapt to hazards. Focus on how the future can be better through adaptation not worse.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions: tougher air discharge rules, protecting native vegetation, well loved/used active and public transport.
Reinstate resilience through working with nature. Rivers and coastlines need space and natural margins for resilience in storm events.
Declare a climate and ecological emergency, acknowledging the need to hugely reduce overall consumption of energy and resources in a just way.
Commit to eliminating synthetic fertiliser as soon as possible, to reduce unsustainable livestock numbers and reduce soil carbon emission.
Commit to assist any way possible with restoration of passenger rail as far as ORC engagement permits.
Incorporate strong climate change adaptations into the regional Land and Water Plan.
Halve regional greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reduce them to net zero by 2050.
Cooperate with city and district councils to strengthen flood protections in vulnerable areas (eg. South Dunedin).
Declare a climate emergency to indicate the level of concern across the region.
Commit to Dunedin City Zero Carbon 2030 goal to co-ordinate the response across the city.
Examine all plans to ensure they are fit for purpose with increasing impacts from climate change.
Increase greenhouse gas emissions in order to make money at all costs by preventing a just transition to regenerative agriculture.
Expand the use of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser to grow more grass to feed more cows to irrigate more land to grow more glorious slime.
Support He Waka Eke Noa to maintain our heavy reliance on gas, coal, and oil to support the dairy industry and animal agriculture.
Support the South Dunedin Future programme to come up with long term adaptations to climate change that are embraced by the community.
Set an ambitious target for net zero carbon emissions in council activities.
Review flood protection capacity in view of the changed rainfall patterns accompanying climate change.
Commit to investment in infrastructure projects in response to climate change, ie flood protection schemes, water management schemes.
Ensure a prepared civil defence response by resourcing with competent and committed people.
Ensure the Otago Regional Council meet carbon zero targets as an organisation.
Develop a strategy to ensure that South Dunedin is engineered better to cope with future flooding and weather events.
Adopt a zero waste program that can support other waste reduction policies and advocate better waste management.
Identify significant carbon emissions in Otago and constructively work with emitters to reduce.
Progressively change to electric buses in Otago.
Identify, establish and promote native plantings and wetlands to reduce carbon emissions and improve biodiversity and waterways quality.
Establish a farmer liaison policy to subsidise nitrate, phosphate and E. coli collection systems.
Increase air pollution monitoring systems and encourage the use of pollution filters on motor vehicles.
Introduce free bus fares for children, students and Community Card holders.
Resist unworkable, unscientific, economically reckless virtue-signalling Carbon Zero 2025 targets.
Focus more on climate change adaptation rather than being a world leader in anthropogenic climate change measures.
Embolden civil defence capability by encouraging closer relationship with existing community structures and FENZ expertise.
Create positive plans for areas that need to adapt to hazards. Focus on how the future can be better through adaptation not worse.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions: tougher air discharge rules, protecting native vegetation, well loved/used active and public transport.
Reinstate resilience through working with nature. Rivers and coastlines need space and natural margins for resilience in storm events.
Declare a climate and ecological emergency, acknowledging the need to hugely reduce overall consumption of energy and resources in a just way.
Commit to eliminating synthetic fertiliser as soon as possible, to reduce unsustainable livestock numbers and reduce soil carbon emission.
Commit to assist any way possible with restoration of passenger rail as far as ORC engagement permits.
Incorporate strong climate change adaptations into the regional Land and Water Plan.
Halve regional greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reduce them to net zero by 2050.
Cooperate with city and district councils to strengthen flood protections in vulnerable areas (eg. South Dunedin).
Declare a climate emergency to indicate the level of concern across the region.
Commit to Dunedin City Zero Carbon 2030 goal to co-ordinate the response across the city.
Examine all plans to ensure they are fit for purpose with increasing impacts from climate change.
Increase greenhouse gas emissions in order to make money at all costs by preventing a just transition to regenerative agriculture.
Expand the use of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser to grow more grass to feed more cows to irrigate more land to grow more glorious slime.
Support He Waka Eke Noa to maintain our heavy reliance on gas, coal, and oil to support the dairy industry and animal agriculture.
Support the South Dunedin Future programme to come up with long term adaptations to climate change that are embraced by the community.
Set an ambitious target for net zero carbon emissions in council activities.
Review flood protection capacity in view of the changed rainfall patterns accompanying climate change.
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