WCC 2016 Rec 107 - Activity Report

ECO is a member of Climate Action Network NZ and ECO itself is a network and a member of various climate and biodiversity networks. We have worked within these networks to press the case for greater public awareness and action.
Within professional and official circles we have also worked with the Ministry for the Environment making connection to biosecurity, biodiversity and climate connectedness.

ECO has pressed for the protection and restoration of native ecosystems to help maintain soil and biodiversity carbon stores and to enhance biodiversity.
We have also met with, submitted to, and in various other ways urged the NZ government to favour the protection and planting - of native species in the Government's "One Billion Trees" programme of planting trees for carbon sequestration.


ECO has also pushed for an emissions trading system with the whole of the economy involved with agriculture included since agriculture accounts for half of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions.
We have urged that fossil fuels be left in the ground and that we should adopt plantation grown wood for construction purposes, increase solar and wind power.