Climate actions

With a changing climate, our ecosystems, biodiversity and freshwater resources are at risk from more frequent droughts, floods, pests and invasive species and wildfire.

We are focused on addressing these risks and achieving our climate change outcomes through implementing nature-based solutions, enabling habitat shift in the future and removing carbon from the atmosphere. These are all a co-benefit to providing this core service.

Other climate changes related actions we are also looking to take include:

• Working with others to develop a connected network of climate-resilient ecosystems across Canterbury from the mountains to the sea
• Leading collective efforts in climate-smart pest management to respond to climate risks
• Enhancing carbon removal and promoting forest management processes which reduce climate risks.

We also play a key role in implementing Government direction on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial processing.

These actions are included in all the options for this core service.