In New Zealand, a growing number of community groups and businesses are taking action on climate change. We are acting in our own areas of influence, but we share a common purpose: we are protecting the one climate that we share. We are achieving change across communities and organisations by co-operating together.

Every year during planting season (winter), thousands of trees and shrubs are planted at our regional and local parks.  You can be involved! It's fun, sociable and rewarding.

Our Regional Parks are being replanted with native plants and trees to show how parts of our city environs once looked. This is to protect the things that belong in the parks - native plants, birds, fish and insects and their support systems and food supplies - forest, streams, wetlands, sea.

Find out how you can join in the planting more

For most people - out of sight is out of mind - once waste leaves their property in a rubbish bag or a recycle bin, they no longer think it is their problem.

The intentions behind recycling are good - responsible recycling (including e-waste) should be encouraged to make better use of increasingly scarce resources and to reduce pollution. The big problems arise when the waste is shipped overseas for processing!

Decades of pollution and environmental damage caused by the oil industry in the Niger Delta have had a devastating impact on people’s rights to food, water, health and livelihood, driving them into poverty.