Activate Agency

08/12/2023

We are very proud to share that Kera Sherwood-O'Regan will be on RNZ at 10.05am today talking about her recognition on BBC’s 100 women and indigenous and disability rights in climate change 👏

Tune in below:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/20231209

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26/11/2023

Our Just Climate Adaptation virtual wānanga is starting at 3pm!

We have a few more spots available, so if you were thinking about joining email me on [email protected] to get the connection details 🙂

This is for Māori & Pacific participants who are interested in climate, taiao, and community kaupapa.

While we will be virtual so unfortunately can’t share kai together, it will be a relaxed session with good whānaungatanga time and then brainstorming together.

Koha will of course be provided & I can send through more information about the project to anyone wanting to attend 🙂

Mauri ora!

20/11/2023

E hoa mā, have you been involved in climate change or taiao projects? Activism in your rohe? Iwi, hapū, marae or rūnaka planning? 

➡️ Join us for an interactive virtual wānaka + design critique workshop for equitable climate adaptation! 
🗓 Monday 27th November, 3pm-6pm via Zoom
🌿 A small koha of $100 will be provided
📩 There are 30 places in this workshop, so please RSVP to Kera at [email protected]

We are looking for Māori and Pacific individuals and collectives to join our final virtual wānanga which is about supporting more just and equitable adaptation in Aotearoa by shaping the development of a Climate Maladaptation Assessment Tool (MAT).

The MAT is being developed to ensure that climate adaptation projects don't inadvertently make communities more vulnerable (this is known as “maladaption").

In this session we will be taking a deep dive to understand what might be useful indicators for Māori and Pacific whānau that maladaptation is occurring instead of positive adaptation 🌏

For example - would loss of access to māhika kai, wāhi tapu, or other significant sites be a marker that a climate project is actually maladaptive?

What if a project doesn’t have mana whenua involved at a governance level? Or perhaps adaptation projects are asking for an unsustainable level of input from our communities? 🤔

We want to know what you notice on the ground, and what bad adaptation looks like in your community. This will shape the MAT to make sure it’s an effective tool in evaluating and improving top-down climate adaptation projects in Aotearoa - ultimately, to ensure these projects enhance community resilience and wellbeing, and respect our rights.

will be facilitating along with researchers Ritodhi Chakraborty and Claire Burgess who are driving this mahi at UC.

So if you'd like to participate, or if you have any pātai, DM-mai or email [email protected]!

The project is part of a University of Canterbury study, funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Adaptation (SLMACC-A) Fund.

18/10/2023

E hoa mā, have you been involved in climate change or taiao projects? Activism in your rohe? Iwi, hapū, marae or rūnaka planning? 

➡️ Join us for an interactive virtual wānaka and design critique workshop for equitable climate adaptation! 
🗓 Monday 23rd October, 3pm-6pm or Friday 27th October 10am-1pm via Zoom
🌿 A small koha of $100 will be provided
📩 There are 30 places in this wānaka, so please RSVP to Kera at [email protected]

We are seeking Māori and Pacific individuals and collectives to join one of two virtual wānaka to support more just and equitable adaptation in Aotearoa by giving design critique on the development of a Climate Maladaptation Assessment Tool (MAT).

We're developing the MAT to help ensure that climate adaptation projects don't inadvertently make communities more vulnerable. This is called "maladaptation". For example, if a government policy was introduced to move homes at risk of flooding due to climate change, but this resulted in whānau Māori being forced off their whenua or losing access to māhika kai, wāhi tapu, or other significant sites, making them more susceptible to climate impacts.

We want to know if the MAT is useful in evaluating and improving the many different planned Climate Adaptations projects in Aotearoa New Zealand, to ensure they enhance community resilience and wellbeing, and respect our rights.

Critically, we want to ensure this tool would be useful and appropriate for Māori and frontline communities, particularly given increasing demands on hapū and iwi to partner on or give approval for adaptation projects and policies. 

I'll be facilitating along with Ritodhi Chakraborty & Claire Burgess
who are driving this mahi at UC. So if you'd like to participate, or if you have any pātai, DM-mai or email me on [email protected]!

The project is part of a University of Canterbury study, funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Adaptation (SLMACC-A) Fund. 

23/03/2022

We're so looking forward to the Aotearoa Disability Figures Launch tomorrow, and to Paula Tesoriero - NZ Disability Rights Commissioner's kōrero.

The launch is open to community members so please come along if you're interested in disability advocacy and data!

The Figure.NZ team and our friends at Stats NZ can't wait to share Aotearoa Disability Figures with you all āpōpō, and we are honoured to have Paula Tesoriero - NZ Disability Rights Commissioner sharing her kōrero at the launch.

"The kaupapa behind this platform is close to my heart and it’s beyond exciting to see something like this come to fruition – something that will contribute greatly to improving access to disability data", she says.

"We need quality data, we need access to data, and we need to follow through with action."

➡️You can join the launch live at 10:30am Thursday 24th March via Zoom, or catch up on the kōrero via the replay!

New Zealand Human Rights Commission

07/03/2022

Combatting Climate Change is a major challenge for our generation, but we are not the first generations to take action on this important kaupapa, and nor will we be the last.

Indigenous Peoples globally have been taking real action on climate justice for generations, yet routinely have their mahi ignored and devalued by mainstream climate campaigning in favour of surface level interventions that magnify injustice and bring us no closer to a climate safe future for our mokopuna.

Tēnei kā mihi ki te rōpū Climate Action Network-International for taking up the wero to challenge these norms and push for more inclusive climate movements that center communities on the frontlines of this crisis.

Follow along for a full of Indigenous perspectives on climate change and climate action, and critical tips for how we can all play our part in dismantling colonialism in our movements.

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Kicking off our Decoloniality Programme for 2022, this week CAN International is ceding our digital space to Indigenous activists and creators for a week of dedicated Decoloniality content.

Our social media channels will feature profiles of Indigenous activists, useful resources, and helpful guides for campaigners and activists committed to climate justice to improve your practice and be in better relationship with Indigenous Peoples and frontline communities.

We hope that this will also fuel our collective learning ahead of the Festival of Ideas next week, where we will have three engaging workshops on Decoloniality, Indigenous Rights, and Story Sovereignty, as well as the opportunity for you all to contribute to transforming our organisation and network at the Annual Strategy Meeting.

We know that real climate action must tackle the systemic and root causes of climate change, including structures of oppression like colonialism, capitalism, ableism, and white supremacy that harm our planet and harm frontline communities.

We must push for justice and equity, centering the communities who are most affected and whose leadership and wisdom has been excluded from mainstream activism and decision making.

This , we invite you to learn from Indigenous perspectives on climate change, and amplify amongst your networks.