Climate action resources
The resources here are to support you to take action. You’ll find actions for individuals, businesses and community groups to make a start or to continue your journey towards a thriving and sustainable future. Plus education resources and funding opportunities to help you along the way.
Take action resources
What can you do as an individual at home, at work and with your communities? Our list of actions will help anyone get started and show others where to get to next.
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Actions
Reduce Your Impact
We all use fossil fuels - if not directly then indirectly through the things we buy or the food we eat. The first step for everyone is to check your carbon footprint and understand how you can reduce it.
Actions
Know Your Risk
There are a wide range of climate change impacts, and some many impact you directly or more indirectly in the future. Taking time to understand the impacts of a changing climate on your home, family and work could help you make better decisions now and in the future.
Actions
Restoring Nature
Restoring nature has many benefits, including flood mitigation or drought protection, habitat creation as well as absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and helping to reduce climate change
Education resources
Information about climate change including detailed explainers and links to reliable sources, so we are all well informed about the impacts on you and our region.
Learn about climate change
Education
What is Climate Change?
Within Te Taitokerau there are different perspectives on how to understand climate change. Each perspective gives us different insights and together they provide a rich way for us to respond.
Education
What Is Our Impact? How We Contribute to Climate Change
Find out about greenhouse gas emissions from Te Taitokerau and what you can do to help reduce our region’s carbon footprint.
Education
What Is Our Risk? How Climate Change Impacts Us
Learn about how climate change could affect Te Taitokerau.
Funding resources
Learn how to access the financial support you need to turn your ideas into action – for yourself or your community.
Find financial support
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Build a Circular Economy
Whangārei-based coffee producer wins award for sustainability and climate action
Using a range of sustainability initiatives from innovative packaging and energy-efficient solutions to on-site solar electricity generation.
Community
Water Resilience Case Study 2 – Waikotihe Puna
The drought over the 2019/2020 summer left a lasting impression in Te Taitokerau and exposed significant water challenges, particularly amongst rural communities without access to public water supply.
Shift to Clean Energy
Zero carbon electricity for the Far North
Ngāwhā Generation Ltd (NGL), a geothermal energy company in the Far North, is New Zealand’s first zero carbon power station.
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