This is a proposed amended version of Our Climate Declaration, which will become official if it is accepted at our Special General Meeting at 4pm on Friday 28 March 2025.

OUR CLIMATE DECLARATION

We commit to doing what is necessary to restore te taiao and ensure a safe earth for future generations. We believe the changes we need to make are profound and urgent.

We will begin by:

• Acknowledging that we live on a finite planet. The damage already caused to the climate, biodiversity, fresh water and the ocean puts the future of humankind at risk.
• Abandoning the economic paradigm of limitless growth and replacing GDP with an indicator of social wellbeing for all.
• Reducing our dependence on fossil fuels by rationing carbon to all citizens with equal quotas and a declining cap, and then repealing the ETS.

This means we must:

• Close all coal mines, stop importing coal and phase out natural gas.
• Change the way we farm. Support diversification, organic and regenerative agriculture.
• Fund electrified public and active transport
• Extend and protect native forests
• Plant trees in towns and cities for shade and biodiversity
• Make electricity a 100% renewable public service
• Reduce socio-economic inequality
• Prepare to welcome climate refugees

Short term, free market policies have allowed us to overshoot climate boundaries. We need to engage all actors at all levels because science shows us there is no time to lose.