Indique cuáles han sido los resultados/logros obtenidos en el marco de las actividades realizadas:
There is a rising tide of demand for the removal of sections from the Resource Management Act and the EEZ and Continental Shelf Act that prohibit consideration of the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from activities on land and sea. We have not yet overturned this unhelpful law.
We have with many others, achieved the block on new government block offers for oil and gas exploration and extraction everywhere but in the Taranaki area, but there remain many permits in operation and exploration permits still allow conversion to extraction. Greenpeace NZ, and ECO member, and many others, are doing a great job of raising the political and public attention to the recklessness of allowing more extraction of oil and gas in the climate crisis.
The Wellington Community Trust is intent on giving strategic support to community groups working on climate.
Local authorities are increasingly working on sea level rise and climate-oceans connections and disruptions in their planning, though ECO is by no means the only group working on this.
¿Qué esfuerzos se están llevando a cabo para superar dichos obstáculos?:
Resistance by vested interests to necessary change and this translates to lack of action. The government has an unrealistic faith in the Emissions Trading Scheme which is manifestly inadequate at current settings with very many exemptions. So the community is mobilising and trying to use democratic forces to change the law and to pressure councils into taking action. ECO's capacity is inadequate
