Local body candidates were asked to respond to the following questions:

  1. What changes have you made in your life, personally, in response to the climate crisis?
  2. Will you, if elected as mayor/councillor, vote to reaffirm the Climate and Ecological Emergency Declaration?
  3. Are you willing to make the climate and ecological emergency the overarching priority for everything that you do/every decision you make? How will you do that?
  4. How will you ensure that all voices are heard equally in matters relating to the climate emergency?

(Note that question 2 for ECan candidates was: “Will you, if elected to the ECan Council, vote to reaffirm the Climate Emergency Declaration and to amend it to ‘Climate and Ecological Emergency Declaration’?”)

Responses received can be found by clicking on the links below.

CCC Mayor
CCC Banks Peninsula Ward
CCC Cashmere Ward
CCC Central Ward
CCC Coastal Ward
CCC Fendalton Ward
CCC Halswell Ward
CCC Heathcote Ward
CCC Innes Ward
CCC Papanui Ward
CCC Riccarton Ward
CCC Spreydon Ward
CCC Waimairi Ward
ECan Christchurch Central / Ōhoko
ECan Christchurch North East / Ōrei
ECan Christchurch South / Ōwhanga
ECan Christchurch West / Ōpuna
ECan Mid Canterbury / Ōpakihi
ECan North Canterbury / Ōpukepuke
ECan South Canterbury / Ōtuhituhi

Unfortunately we didn’t get any replies from Burwood, Harewood, Hornby or Linwood Wards.