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Community Climate Change Response

Find out what the Hutt City Council is doing about climate change and how you can help.

The climate emergency affects all of us and requires the community to:

work together to reduce emissions
prepare for the impact of climate change.

Engagement and collaboration is at the centre of developing our city’s response to climate change.

An engagement programme is underway to engage our diverse community so we:

share information
hear community perspectives
develop a city-wide roadmap to achieve our goals.

At the end of 2020 we established a lead group to oversee community engagement and support the co-design of a climate change roadmap. The lead group includes:

Hutt City Council
Mana Whenua
business representatives
community representatives

Lead Group members

Lead group member	Representative group
Jude Opira Bidong	African Luo Community
Helen Down (Nov 2020 – June 2021)	Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce
James Renwick	Climate Change Commission /Victoria University
Virginia Horrocks	Eastbourne Community
Josh Briggs	Elected Member
Helen Oram	Hutt City Council
Ken Laban	Pasifika Communities
Sorcha Carr	School Strike for Climate NZ (SS4C)
Te Karanga O Te Tui Marino	Te Atiawa
Bruce Anderson	Transition Towns
Kaz Yung	Zero Carbon

The Lead Group has held a number of meetings with representative groups over the last few months. These meetings have been an opportunity to learn more about climate change and its impact on Lower Hutt, share ideas, and help shape future climate change actions.

Information on the Lead Group and the Lower Hutt Community Climate Change Response Programme is available at https://haveyoursay.huttcity.govt.nz/communityclimatechange.

In April 2021, our Lower Hutt youth set the challenge for us all.

“Do something now that your future self would thank you for.”

This video was created to start the conversation and encourage our community to get involved.