The digital version of Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri: Auckland’s Climate Plan is now live online at www.climateAKL.co.nz. The digital plan provides a platform for individuals, communities, mana whenua, businesses and government to see the scale of the challenge we face and understand the priority action areas that we need to focus on to achieve the region’s key climate goals: halving emissions by 2030, reaching net zero by 2050 and taking a precautionary approach to planning for change.
The launch of the digital plan was marked by a climate action focussed Auckland Conversation: So, Auckland has a climate plan… now what?
Next Steps
Next in focus is the 10-year budget deliberations, which will shape what action in the plan the council can directly fund.
While the consultation document hasn’t yet been finalised yet the Mayoral Proposal for the ten-year budget was released on the 1st December and approved as the basis for public consultation on the 9th December. It includes a proposal to increase spending on programmes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and respond to climate impacts by $150 million.
Key outcomes of the proposal include:
• no more diesel buses added to the existing fleet from the 1st July 2021 and working with government to achieve a 50 per cent electric and hydrogen fleet by 2030.
• significantly expanding our resource recovery network to divert more waste from landfill and encourage a more circular economy.
• increasing our investment into regional partnerships and planting 11,000 street trees and converting hectares of farmland to native forest.
Public consultation on the ten year-budget will occur in February and March 2021 and we would encourage you to have your say on the overall package as well as the specific climate action investment. Read full article here.
