Ōtautahi climate action experts at free event next month
Ōtautahi - Leading climate experts will showcase their knowledge and provide latest researchrelating to the climate emergency and creating a more sustainable future on October 28.
The free event gives people the opportunity to hear from top speakers driving sustainability outcomes locally and nationally.
They include chair of the Climate Change Commission Dr Rod Carr, researcher Professor Te Maire Tau, Christchurch airport chief executive Malcolm Johns, leading academics, Christchurch City Council staff, university postgraduate students and business leaders.
The city council has set a target to halve emissions by 2030, compared with 2016-17 levels, and achieve carbon net zero emissions by 2045. Ōtautahi people interested in the future of Christchurch, from its transport systems to urban forest, should attend the event at Canterbury University.
Other guest speakers include:
• Professor Simon Kingham, UC school of earth & environment and chief science advisor for the Ministry of Transport and Lynette Ellis, Head of Transport and Waste, Christchurch City Council on Changing travel in Ōtautahi Christchurch: how, what and why
• Professor Bronwyn Hayward, political scientist and Director of The Sustainable Citizenship and Civic Imagination Research Group and Jane Morgan, team leader coastal hazards adaptation planning on the climate crisis: challenges for cities and opportunities for community participation, a focus on children and young people
• Associate Professor Justin Morgenroth, UC School of Forestry and Andrew Rutledge, head of parks, Christchurch City Council on urban forests: critical for a sustainable city
• Dr Christina Laalaai-Tausa, Dr Dalila Gharbaoui and Dr Suli Vunibola, UC Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, on re-imagining climate crisis, resilience, and Pacific Indigenous Knowledge
• Distinguished Professor David Schiel, UC School of Biological Sciences, on through the ordinary and extraordinary, are we loving our ocean resources to death?
• Associate Professor Sacha McMeeking, UC Executive Director Māori, Pacific and Equity, on understanding the SDGs in the context of global and local wellbeing frameworks – He Ara Wairoa as a possible guide
• Associate Professor Joya Kemper, UC Business School, on transitioning to a sustainable, healthy and inclusive food system
• Hamish Avery, Director, UC Electric Power Engineering Centre and Sheralee MacDonald, innovation facilitator from Orion, on equitable energy transition for Christchurch
• Professor Aaron Marshall, UC Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, and representatives from Zincovery, on opportunities and challenges of sustainable zinc recycling
• Professor Matt Watson, UC Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Associate Professor Allan Scott, UC Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, and Megan Danczyk from Aspiring Materials, on building a low carbon future.
Lisa was born in Auckland at the start of the 1970s, living in a small campsite community on the North Shore called Browns Bay. She spent a significant part of her life with her grandparents, often hanging out at the beaches. Lisa has many happy memories from those days at Browns Bay beach, where fish were plentiful on the point and the ocean was rich in seaweed. She played in the water for hours, going home totally “sun-kissed.” “An adorable time to grow up,” Lisa tells me.
Lisa enjoyed many sports; she was a keen tennis player and netballer, playing in the top teams for her age right up until the family moved to Wellington. Lisa was fifteen years old, which unfortunately marked the end of her sporting career. Local teams were well established in Wellington, and her attention was drawn elsewhere.