Mayor of Dunedin
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.
Build connected community networks and resource communities to strengthen resilience during weather events due to climate change.
Commit to emission reduction with a strengthened public transport system, investigate commuter trains and encourage active transport.
Implement climate action plan strengthened by targeted actions to support low lying communities, starting with South Dunedin Futures plan.
Address the climate plan gap and deliver a comprehensive citywide Dunedin climate action plan addressing both mitigation and adaptation.
Introduce a red carpet approach for at-risk buildings to ensure adaptations, such as earthquake strengthening, have proactive support.
Push hard for a national plan and action for an all-of-Government response to climate change, adaptation and mitigation.
Help heritage building owners earthquake strengthen properties by subsidising some of the costs and making this easier.
Help heritage building owners earthquake strengthen their properties by subsidising some of the costs and making it easier.
Support action on climate change and support medium to high investment in carbon zero.
Support action on climate change. I supported medium to high investment in carbon zero.
Improve education and access to resources on how citizens can personally lower their carbon footprint, eg tree planting and composting.
Improve insulation and local food independence to reduce buying overseas produce and lower personal energy consumption.
Make all buses electric and free and make bus terminals more accommodating through improving shelter, seating and availability.
Improve current infrastructure to buy time ahead of long-term change and solutions, noting that splitting the South D catchment could buy 35 years.
Stop using the Green Island landfill and cap it. This alone will save 46% of the DCC's current greenhouse gas emissions and stop the leach.
Strengthen the ability to respond to civil emergencies in partnership with CDEM, the ORC and local communities and build resilience.
Keep council on track for carbon neutral by 2030.
Protect South Dunedin with resilience structures including pipes and pumps stormwater upgrades, wastewater upgrades and room for water green space.
Prevent beach erosion with pole and plank groynes which are well proven to work at St Clair beach.
Improve emergency readiness to respond faster to severe weather events.
Support coastal protection measures to safeguard vulnerable communities.
Upgrade stormwater systems to handle heavy rainfall and prevent flooding.
Carpet all the roads.
Make the weather better.
Put heaters on every street corner.
Encourage the gas, oil, gold and mineral mining industries to invest in Dunedin, including the oil in the Great South Basin which has enormous potential.
Reverse the 100 million dollars in recent zero-carbon and cycleways budgets and establish a much smaller 'pothole fund'.
Scrap the carbon zero by 2030 plans and the war on cars and make Dunedin car-friendly.
Advocate for the full delivery of the south Dunedin future option most preferred by the residents of South Dunedin.
Commit to the DCC zero carbon plan 2030.
Improve community resilience by increasing the existing place-based community grants fund.
Deliver a fully funded first-stage investment to protect South Dunedin's infrastructure over the next decade.
Build connected community networks and resource communities to strengthen resilience during weather events due to climate change.
Commit to emission reduction with a strengthened public transport system, investigate commuter trains and encourage active transport.
Implement climate action plan strengthened by targeted actions to support low lying communities, starting with South Dunedin Futures plan.
Address the climate plan gap and deliver a comprehensive citywide Dunedin climate action plan addressing both mitigation and adaptation.
Introduce a red carpet approach for at-risk buildings to ensure adaptations, such as earthquake strengthening, have proactive support.
Push hard for a national plan and action for an all-of-Government response to climate change, adaptation and mitigation.
Help heritage building owners earthquake strengthen properties by subsidising some of the costs and making this easier.
Help heritage building owners earthquake strengthen their properties by subsidising some of the costs and making it easier.
Support action on climate change and support medium to high investment in carbon zero.
Support action on climate change. I supported medium to high investment in carbon zero.
Improve education and access to resources on how citizens can personally lower their carbon footprint, eg tree planting and composting.
Improve insulation and local food independence to reduce buying overseas produce and lower personal energy consumption.
Make all buses electric and free and make bus terminals more accommodating through improving shelter, seating and availability.
Improve current infrastructure to buy time ahead of long-term change and solutions, noting that splitting the South D catchment could buy 35 years.
Stop using the Green Island landfill and cap it. This alone will save 46% of the DCC's current greenhouse gas emissions and stop the leach.
Strengthen the ability to respond to civil emergencies in partnership with CDEM, the ORC and local communities and build resilience.
Keep council on track for carbon neutral by 2030.
Protect South Dunedin with resilience structures including pipes and pumps stormwater upgrades, wastewater upgrades and room for water green space.
Prevent beach erosion with pole and plank groynes which are well proven to work at St Clair beach.
Improve emergency readiness to respond faster to severe weather events.
Support coastal protection measures to safeguard vulnerable communities.
Upgrade stormwater systems to handle heavy rainfall and prevent flooding.
Carpet all the roads.
Make the weather better.
Put heaters on every street corner.
Encourage the gas, oil, gold and mineral mining industries to invest in Dunedin, including the oil in the Great South Basin which has enormous potential.
Reverse the 100 million dollars in recent zero-carbon and cycleways budgets and establish a much smaller 'pothole fund'.
Scrap the carbon zero by 2030 plans and the war on cars and make Dunedin car-friendly.
Advocate for the full delivery of the south Dunedin future option most preferred by the residents of South Dunedin.
Commit to the DCC zero carbon plan 2030.
Improve community resilience by increasing the existing place-based community grants fund.
Deliver a fully funded first-stage investment to protect South Dunedin's infrastructure over the next decade.
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