“PEOPLE, PLACES and THE CLIMATE CRISIS”

16 experts and six mayoral candidates answer critical climate questions ahead of October’s council elections. Full interviews on main podcast platforms, or condensed on radio FreshFM.

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HEAR 16 EXPERTS DISCUSS CRITICAL ISSUES ON CLIMATE AND COUNCILS

OR COMPARE NELSON AND TASMAN MAYORAL CANDIDATES answer specific questions (radio Fresh FM), or full interviews (on Spotify etc.), plus a climate-savvy panel evaluating their answers.

All 11 mayoral candidates were invited - only six were keen to face up to our climate questions

Here are full interviews with individual Nelson and Tasman mayoral candidates Mike Harvey, Aly Cook, Tim King , Rohan O’Neill-Stevens , Matt Lawrey or Richard Osmaston.

Here is feedback from the climate-savvy panel with individual comments and a panel discussion with Peter Olorenshaw, Astrid Sayer, Jack Santa Barbara, Yachal Upson, and Barbara Robson.

These are links to FreshFM episodes with mayoral candidate answers to questions and panelist comments. Question 1: Decarbonising 10% year on year: Question 2: Our Energy future. Question 3: Achieving a just transition; Question 4: The costs of climate action and inaction. Panel discussion: (26th Sept). Magic climate wand: candidates’ “magic climate strategy” (3rd Oct).

And below are the links to interviews with sixteen experts on various climate and councils themes.

Hon James Shaw and Prof Susan Krumdieck

Setting the scene.

Ali Boswijk and Rod Oram

Making our regional economy less vulnerable to climate

Professor Bronwyn Hayward

Summing up: what does all this mean?

Dr Olivia Hyatt and Miriana Stephens

Climate connects everything

Sam Archer, NZGBC, Prof Ralph Chapman

Climate, , buildings, transport

Emeritus Prof Pat Bodger

Our energy future

 

Dr. Simon Stewart and Simon Millar

Regenerating nature

Prof James Renwick & Sophie Handford.

Visualising the future and championing change