Organisers of an information drop-in session about the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s draft climate strategy say it does not go far enough and needs to be strengthened.
Members of ONE New Zealand, Extinction Rebellion and Protect our Winters hosted the informal drop-in session at the Lake Wanaka Hotel in Wanaka this week.
Spokeswoman Monique Kelly said the motivation behind the session was to get people together to talk about the strategy and also to help anyone struggling with the submission process.
Her view was that the council climate draft policy was only a first step and it needed to be expanded to include a steering committee which had “teeth” and that the council had to adhere to set targets…
Source: https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/wanaka/qldc-urged-adopt-stronger-strategy-climate
