Climate Crisis Action Aotearoa
https://kitwithers.substack.com/p/climate-crisis-action-aotearoa v 8.5.2026 https://accessradio.org.nz/shows-podcasts/climate-crisis-action-aotearoa/
Hosted by Keeto (Kit Withers) and Francesca Pouwer, of Fridays for Future, aka
Tuesdays for Tomorrow! Join us on Tuesdays 1230-130 outside parliament.
Fossil fuels have put us in the 6th mass extinction. Governments are not facing up to the urgency for Action. Hear what climate crisis groups in Aotearoa are doing!
Listen every 4th Sunday at 6.30pm from 16 July 2023 on Access Radio 106.1 FM.
Fridays for Future was started by a schoolgirl, Greta Thurnberg. Now it has followers
all around the world.
Here in Poneke, Te Upoko o te Ika, we protest at Parliament lawn every Tuesday 1230-130. Don’t be shy in joining us & having some fun while helping save the planet!
Check out our environment & climate related events at
https://www/fridaysforfuture.nz
27.6.2023 Ocean heat is changing marine food webs – with far-reaching consequences for NZ fisheries and sea life
https://theconversation.com/ocean-heat-is-changing-marine-food-webs-with-far-reaching-consequences-for-nz-fisheries-and-sea-life-236427
9.7.2023 Broadcast 1: Launching Climate Crisis Action Aotearoa
The Climate shift Initiative in the lead up to the Election on 14.10.2023.
A campaign of Greenpeace, Forest & Bird and Oxfam made up
of a coalition of over thirty groups and NGOs from across Aotearoa.
1. Real emissions reductions
2. Supporting frontline communities in Aotearoa and across the Pacific
3. Restoring & rewilding nature
13.8.2023 Broadcast 2: The big drivers of Greenhouse emissions in Aotearoa.
The 2023 poll by Ipsos on public perception of climate change.
A global trend in the lack of faith in government climate plans and the main drivers for emissions in Aotearoa. 350.Org on the need for home-grown energy - a strategy to break the monopoly of Electricity producers: otherwise known as the Gentailers.
The big drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in NZ are industry,
electricity and heat production sector. Setting the price of ETS units below recommendations of the Climate Change Commission, and allowing farmers
to offset emissions with carbon credits from planting trees and wet lands.
These measures delay actual reduction of emissions within dairy industry!
What does the government need to do to meet its obligations under the Paris agreement? What can we as consumers do to mitigate climate change?
Living car-free, changing to an EV, taking 1 less long return flight,
using renewable energy, and 5. shifting to public transport + an interview with
Restore Passenger Rail activist Anne Smith in November outside the Hutt Court.
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Kiwis still dont understand how-to-fight-climate-change.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/kiwis-still-dont-understand-how-to-fight-climate-change-poll Mark Daalder, Newsroom on 8 July 2023.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/kiwis-still-dont-understand-how-to-fight-climate-change-poll
10.9.2023 Broadcast 3: Vote for the Climate!
An initiative spearheaded by Greenpeace & otherorganisations that initiated the Climate Shift initiative. Climate criminals: Big corporate Banks and Big Oil.
More than ever it is important that we the people use our voice to put pressure on bigbusiness to shift away from our addiction to carbon. How Market Forces campaign against big corporate banks. Support their campaign to stop financing big corporate banks! marketforces.org
James Renwick, a renowned NZ climate scientist: “BIG OIL IS STILL IN CHARGE. It staggers me that there are business leaders and world leaders who are prepared to gamble with billions of lives for the sake of profit.” - Listener 16.6.2023.
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Global Boiling: Huge areas of the world are being pounded by floods, fires,
drought, and record heat waves. Global leadership is completely failing to take
the correct actions at the required speed.
On 22.7.23 the climate clock ticked to 5 years remaining to limit global
warming to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels.
Market Forces in Australia. The big banks are funding a huge problem.
Max Rashbrooke: Underinvestment in infra structure. Rampant lobbying where
companies like Fonterra get involved at policy level.
Put planet and people first.
10 ways NZ can be strategic about addressing climate change threats.
10 ways NZ can address climate threats
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495542/10-ways-nz-can-be-strategic-about-addressing-climate-change-threats
8.10.2023 Broadcast 4: Degrowth as a viable option to create a sustainable way of life.
Mike Joy, Aotearoa’s leading fresh water ecologist, explains why he thinks Degrowth is the way to go for planet Earth and what needs to happen to bring this about.
One advantage humans have over other species is that we understand overshoot- dynamics and can plan how we adjust. This is what the degrowth movement is attempting to do.
Read more of him on Degrowth in The Conversation for 16.8.23:
https://www.degrowth.nz/
5.11.2023 Broadcast 5: Pay up to Power up and Transport.
Paddy Geddes from 350.org reports on the Power-up Campaign at Parliament
Alex Dyer on alternative transport solutions and creating cities for people.
Julian Warmington, a journalist student and a motivated climate activist.
3.12.2023 Broadcast 6: Managed Retreat in Aotearoa.
Professor Jonathan Boston chaired an Expert Working Group on Managed Retreat 2022-23. It argues for a multi-party agreement to fund Managed Retreat.
Some key issues and conclusions.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/the-urgency-of-funding-managed-retreat
Newsroom Check out Professor Jonathan Boston’s 2024 book from WCL,
A radically different world - preparing for climate change, BWB #108.
Read carefully thought out policies on adaptation, relocation & compensation.
31.12.2023 Broadcast 7: The cost of delaying Climate Action.
Professor Ilan Noy, VUW, on delaying bold action to curb the extreme weather events. He spearheaded a global research project to estimate the cost of the damage caused by the climate crisis through extreme weather for the past 20 years. He highlights that the cost will only increase if we continue to kick the can down the road:
Guardian on cost of extreme weather
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/09/climate-crisis-cost-extreme-weather-damage-study
28.1.2024 Broadcast 8: Tim Jones on his novel Emergency Weather, set in Aotearoa.
https://thecubapress.nz/shop/emergency-weather/
Telling stories is a way to help visualise how to respond to Climate Change.
25.2.2024 Broadcast 9: Food Security.
Comprehensive action on Food security is overdue. In Aotearoa we do not have a strategic plan in place to ensure food security. In short there is an increasing loss of crop production through weather events such as floods and droughts. The Auckland anniversary floods and Cyclone Gabriel show we face this issue here in Aotearoa.
24.3.2024 Broadcast 10: An interview with Green MPs Ricardo March & Steve Abel.
21.4.2024 Broadcast 11: 350 Aotearoa -
Paddy Geddes from 350.org looks at the impact of private planes in Aotearoa and the disproportionate amount of emission it causes.
19.5.2024 Broadcast 12: An interview with Greater Wellington Green Counsellors Quentin.Duthie@gw.govt.nz and Yadana.Saw@gw.govt.nz
16.6.2024 Broadcast 13: Some interviews at the historic hikoi from the Wellington railway station to parliament on 30.5.2024.
Thousands upon thousands were there to protest the 3 headed monster - this govt.
Rangatahi and old folks on how they see this govt impacting the climate crisis.
Ezra ,Haley and Moata - So young yet so articulate and on the nail!
Kirstin, Melanie, Val. + The Fast Track bill
+ SONG by Anne Feeney HAVE YOU BEEN TO JAIL FOR JUSTICE?
14.7.24 Broadcast 14: Interviews from the massive hikoi to Parliament 30.5.2024,
& with pakeha ceally oneill & haimana (simon) of te waka horua (2 hulls) re decolonisation and climate action…
https://player.accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=34d16f70-9c84-4f00-9f83-bf9a27b8c72c
11.8.2024 Broadcast 15: Professor Robert McLachlan of Massey.
Are our political systems incapable of responding to our existential crises?
Will the Gulf Stream shut down? Cycling, …
https://player.accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=a6e50219-c3de-4255-bd77-7fa643ce91b2
8.9.2024 Broadcast 16: Forest restoration project in Motueka.
This broadcast focuses on private land ownership, the role of volunteers and the community action to restore and protect our whenua. It has an interview with Ollie Langridge, one of the main founders of Friday for Futures in Wellington, Te Opoko o Te Ika. After his 100 day protest at Wellington Parliament, Ollie decided to take tangible climate action by setting up a QEII native forest reserve on his land situated above the Motueka River.
https://player.accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=e0e452b8-d74d-469c-a2ff-253ac9f4df6f
6.10.2024 Broadcast 17: Journalist Marc Daalder talks on the Fast Track Bill, the urgency for climate action, Rewiring Aotearoa at www.rewiring.nz
Its new report shows that household electrification can massively reduce emissions while saving money.
3.11.2024 Broadcast 18: Can we rely on market forces to reduce our emissions?
This broadcast explores the current coalition government’s claim that market forces and the use of new technologies rather than government regulation can address the need to cut down emission in Aotearoa. It features an interview with an engineer who used to work for Shell Oil NZ.
1.12.2024 Broadcast 19: Creating Ngahere Korowai.
The Wainuiomata Marae is taking positive action on a number of fronts to create a more equitable and sustainable lifestyle. It features an interview with Star Olsen from the marae, Mollie Melhuish and Pam Crisp from Transition Town Lower Hutt and the collaboration with the wider community to set up a Papa Kainga, a food forest and a NZ version of a Tiny Forest, Ngahere Korowai on a suburban marae. It stresses the need to include children so they will carry these Taonga into the future.
29.12.2024 Broadcast 20: Interviews on the Climate Crisis with 2 members of the Interfaith group in FFF Paul Blaschke & Anna Smith.
26.1.2025 Broadcast 21: The story of a lake through time.
This broadcast reports on an art exhibition of 10 paintings at Mahara Gallery by Gerda Leenards. It highlights that Lake Horowhenua is shamefully polluted, affecting the food source and health of local iwi Muaupoko. Her paintings of the lake remind us to consider how we use land and water.
Gerda Leenards believes that art can move people where scientific facts on climate change issues fail to engage. Gerda wants people to look at what is going on around them close to home. Climate change is the result of how we behave here and now.
As part of her exhibition she refers to a film Beneath the Surface-A film by Susan Harvey and Nicki Atkinson about Lake Horowhenua.
Ecologist, Dr Mike Joy, was invited to hold a talk at the Gallery.
23.2.2025 Broadcast 22: State Persecution of Climate Heroes.
Rach of Climate Liberation Aotearoa on the hikoi to the British Embassy she led on 30.1.2025 to draw attention to the climate activists in London given 3 & 4 year sentences. Why has the UK brought in fascist laws to shut down climate protest?Around the world, govts have lurched towards fascism. A climate group in Germany called Last Generation got very harsh treatment, members jailed, their bank account confiscated, their website closed down.n Last Generation, Just Stop Oil, and Climate Liberation Aotearoa, are part of THE A22 NETWORK.
On 24.2.2025 began the trial in Poneke of The Aerial 7, 7 climate activists facing 14 years jail! Putting a climate crisis sign over the motorway is worse than murder it seems with the laws of Aotearoa!
23.3.2025 Broadcast 23: Te Oku o Te Raekaihau - rewilding on Wellington south coast.
An interview with Brian Walters who leads a community group working to restore this section of land to how it was originally, planting kohekohe as part of a 500 year restoration plan. He feels he wanted to do something for the environment by being able to do something within walking distance from where he lives. Something doable alongside having the demands of work and a young family.
20.4.2025 Broadcast 24: (1) An interview with Te Wehi, on trial in Poneke & facing 14 years jail for putting a climate crisis sign over the motorway!
(2) Liam Prince speaking at a rally 24.2.2025 to protest the evil law allowing 14 years jail for speaking up for the planet, while the politicians who accelerate the destruction of Papatuanuku go scott free!
(3) David Odonnell of Theatre For Climate on the play DONT LOOK NOW!
STOP PRESS - ALL THOSE CLIMATE ACTIVISTS IN AOTEAROA FACING 14 YEARS IN JAIL HAVE HAD THEIR CHARGES DISMISSED! WHOOPEE!
18.5.2025 Broadcast 25: Interview with two members of the Student Volunteer Army VUW.
In this interview the spotlight is on another ‘Massive Little’: The student Volunteer Army or SVA. It started as a response to the Christchurch earthquakes but has extended across the country to other universities. This student movement networks with other organisations and now takes on a range of tasks to meet social and environmental needs in our wider community. It includes taking on the Climate Emergency declared in 2019 as part of its kaupapa.
15.6.2025 Broadcast 26: The newsletters Climate Matters - Lindsay Wood
of substack and www.resilienz.co.nz
Some of Lindsay’s links: https://www.resilienz.co.nz/
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/5/5/america-should-sprawl-not-if-we-want-strong-towns
https://environment.govt.nz/assets/news/Methane-Science-and-Target-Review-Terms-of-Reference.pdf
And an excerpt from the 2024 book by Malm & Carton,
Overshoot-how the world surrendered to climate breakdown. Held by our library!
13.7.2025 Broadcast 27:
Shutting down the massive coal mine on the Denniston Plateau.
This coal mine will double our greenhouse gas emissions!
Hear Adam Curry of 350.
10.8.2025 Broadcast 28:
1. LAWYERS FOR CLIMATE ACTION NZ www.lawyersforclimateaction.nz
In the absence of effective action to reduce emissions, global warming is likely to reach between 3.7°C and 4.8°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. This will have devastating consequences including extreme heatwaves, droughts, flooding, extinctions and loss of ecosystems, starvation and water insecurity, political destabilisation and conflict, mass migration, and an overall substantial decline in the health and wellbeing of people. admin@lawyersforclimateaction.nz
Hear JESSICA PALAIRET talk about their SUING THE GOVERNMENT over its
‘dangerously inadequate’ plan to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050.
2. Councillor Geordie Rogers talks about reducing Wellington City Council’s carbon footprint.
7.9.2025 Broadcast 29:
More on our coal mines.
5.10.2025 Broadcast 30:
1. Lucy Byrne talks about TAKE THE JUMP, a Nelson Tasman Climate Forum campaign focussing on 8 actions we can take to reduce our carbon footprint & help the environment. Find out if your kiwisaver is climate friendly. Nudge our government towards the big improvements needed for our global system.
Councillor Aaron Stallard talks about Nelson’s climate action initiatives.
2.11.2025 Broadcast 31: Interviews with Pure Advantage on re-cloaking Papatūānuku and a teacher at secondary level to engaging the wider community to heal the land and
‘Think like a Forest’
30.11.2025 Broadcast 32: Recent Climate Change Commissioner Prof. James Renwick,
and author in the last 3 IPCC reports, talks about the giant steps backwards this government is taking, as it guts the Climate Change Response Act and the Climate Change Commission’s main functions.
Read share.google/NiMV1TXVda8YfuPKf
18.1.24 How not to solve the climate change problem by Dr Kevin Trenbeth, trenbert@ucar.edu on IPCC, world climate research program with 587 public’ns:
Build resilience to weather extremes. “Planting trees is relatively cheap. But trees arent permanent. Leaves, twigs and dead trees decay. Forests burn... And even with trees, the cost to remove 1 part per million volume could be as much as $390 billion.
This highlights the tremendous need to cut emissions. There is no workaround.”
Broadcast 33: Protecting our Marine Life with Nicole Miller 28.12.2025
Nicole Miller is a diver and activist and the Chair of Tapu te Ranga Marine Charitable Trust. Ii is her mission to bring the underwater world to the surface and to create awareness of the importance of Kelp Forests here along our South Coast and elsewhere in Aotearoa. She has been diving around Wellington harbour for 14 years and is passionate about monitoring what is happening to our kelp forests and the health of this ecosystem. Her documentary Seaweed- A love story is part of her plea to create a network of marine reserves around Aotearoa and that community action plays a vital part.
16.1.2026 Broadcast 34: Adam Currie on 350.org.nz/coal
STOP DENNISTON’S COAL MONSTER
We all deserve to live in a safe climate. Yet Bathurst plans to put this at risk by fast-tracking a massive coal mine that would spew climate pollution equal to New Zealand’s annual emissions.
Check out Tony Juniper’s 2025 book, Just Earth - How a fairer world will save the planet. Held by WCL.
Broadcast 35 : On location at Nil Products, a sustainable business in Berhampore, 22.02.2026
An interview with Anna Mills, the director of Nil, and her production manager Sonya Whiticase about their passion to produce nil waste & nil harm to ‘nilify’ our world. The company also believes in social enterprise. It has a strong home workforce of women to enable them not only to obtain an income but be part of a company with purpose: one that wishes to create a more sustainable future for the next generation.
Broadcast 36 22.3.2026 Interviews with Dave Lowe, author of The Alarmist, and Carley of Generation Zero :
Broadcast 37 19.4.2026 :
Broadcast 38 17.5.2026 : Generation Zero Carley interviews (1) Colden of Climate Action & Resistance Club, VUW on getting VUW to divest from fossil fuels, and (2) Emily Robertson, climate artist, song write & filmer.
Climate change scientists accuse government of 'ignoring scientific evidence' | RNZ News
www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562938/climate-change-scientists-accuse-government-of-ignoring-scientific-evidence
10.8.2024 A massive hikoi in Wellington. But will Luxon’s louts listen?
26.8.2024 Tackling the World’s Planetary Emergency
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/08/tackling-worlds-planetary-emergency/
20.8.2024 A mayor's decision whether to flood his own city - Newsroom
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/30/a-mayors-decision-whether-to-flood-his-own-city/
.8.2024 Fighting Climate Disinformation Is an Urgent Priority
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/climate-crisis-disinformation-fossil-fuels
NZ could have 58,000 fewer electric cars by 2035 due to weaker carbon emissions standards | RNZ
31.8.2024 Parliament's environment watchdog slams government's climate plan: 'A massive gamble' | RNZ News
5.9.24 Astonishing intensity of heat- Australia just recorded its hottest ever winter’s day.
climateaction.vuw Some clips from the demonstration today in Midland Park, Lambton Quay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
30.9.2024 Dame Anne Salmond: Are they listening? - Newsroom
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/30/anne-salmond-are-they-listening/
Does Shane Jones seriously think he knows more about planetary dynamics than Nobel prize-winners? The scientific community is now warning that of nine factors crucial to maintaining life on the planet, six have already been exceeded, and the seventh is now at risk.
Floods in Dunedin:
Floods in North Carolina & Nepal:
3 elephants lead a blind elephant to safety.
