Climate resilience and sustainable design

Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri: Auckland’s Climate Plan is Auckland Council’s roadmap to a zero-emissions, resilient and healthier region that is better connected to the environment and able to thrive in the face of ongoing change and disruption. Auckland’s Climate Plan identifies growing ngahere and implementing nature-based solutions such as green infrastructure as two of the priority action areas towards achieving this goal.

Auckland Transport’s Hīkina te Wero – Environment Action Plan provides outcomes, targets and actions towards protecting and restoring the environment. Targets include increasing canopy cover along road corridors to on average 12 per cent and, increasing pervious surfaces along corridors that connect areas of high ecological value by 10 per cent through planting, green roofs and paving.

Urban ngahere captures the interconnected whakapapa (genealogy) of all living things to the wider ecosystem. It consists  of a complex network weaving through public and private land, and includes the water, soil, air and sunlight that support it. It also involves people, wildlife and the built environment – all of which impact upon, or are impacted by, the urban ngahere.