KiMuaNZ: Exploring climate futures

3-5 July 2019

About

The KiMuaNZ workshop brought together 40 young New Zealanders between the ages of 18 and 25 who have a connection with the Pacific. They shared experiences and understandings of climate change issues in order to develop different scenarios for New Zealand and our Pacific neighbours.

The workshop was intended to amplify Pasifika voices, develop futures thinking capability and help build a more informed and cohesive society. It aimed to also contribute to a continued conversation about climate change allowing us to develop potential responses for adapting to and mitigating climate-related risks.

Workshop Publication

Finale Presentation
at Government House

At Government House the participants of the KiMuaNZ workshop shared their ideas after three days of listening to expert speakers and developing scenarios. The finale presentation sought to add to the national conversation on how to mitigate and adapt to climate change in New Zealand and the Pacific.

Watch the full presentation here. 

Participants

Dylan Apera

Melanie Atonio

Nicholas Bing

Mitchell Chandler

Heleine Chankay

Adam Currie

Matalima Enosa

Mapu Faleolupe Aiiloilo

Mariner Fagaiava-Muller

Chesta Fa’otusia

Anzac Gallate

Freya Hargreaves-Brown

Aaron Itinteang

Sulu-Danielle Joshua

Miimetua Kino

Andre Kologeto

Hulita Koloi

Meiema Laupepa

Sisifa Lui

Tumaru Mataio Tairi

Renali Narayan

Faithing Notoa

Nikolao Omari Cockerell

Allanah Petersen

Fereni Peti

Ella Rooney

Rosie Semu

Freya Schaumkel

Rebecca Shaw

Brittany Tapusoa

Elijah Tauelima

Nicole Taunga

Janet Tekori

Samu Telefoni

Renee Topeto

Angelica Tovia

Maryanne Tupou

Louisa Vaeluaga

Kaeden Watts

Cameron Young

Speakers

Her Excellency – The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy

Hon Aupito William Sio

Tim Grafton

Dr Richard Lum ​

Mele Tabukovu ​

Saia Mataele ​

Gina Lefaoseu ​

Neville Peat ​​

Wendy McGuinness ​​

Michel Tuffery ​​

Laavaneta Juliano ​​

David Crosbie ​​

Vicki Plater

Natalie Labuschange

Su’a Thomsen

Trevor Moeke

Rima’ati Moeka’a

Bryan Chapple

Resources

Map of Pacific connections

Workshop Flyer

Workshop Programme

Pre-workshop resources

The Climate Crisis: Defence Readiness and Responsibilities
(Ministry of Defence – 2018)

Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
(Global Compact for Migration – 2018)

Pacific Climate Change-related Displacement and Migration: a New Zealand Action Plan
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade – 2018)

How is our climate changing?
(Met Office – 2018)

Public opinion may move surprisingly fast on climate change
(Stuff – 2019)

Homework resources

Zero Carbon Bill
(New Zealand Parliament – 2019)

Existential Climate-related Security Risk
(Breakthrough – National Centre for Climate Restoration Australia)

13 Minutes to the Moon: Kids in control
(BBC Podcasts – 13 Minutes to the Moon)

Dame Patsy grew up in the Waikato and graduated from Victoria University with an LLM (First Class Honours). Before becoming Governor-General, she had a career in law, business, and the public sector. Dame Patsy was the first female partner in the law firm Watts and Patterson. She spent 11 years at Brierley Investments, and co-founded Active Equities Limited. Dame Patsy had governance roles at several leading New Zealand companies. Her public sector work has included work on pay equity, and reviews of New Zealand Intelligence and Security and the performance of several government agencies. She also acted as Chief Crown Negotiator of Treaty Settlements for Tauranga Moana and Te Toko Toru.

Dame Patsy’s passion for the arts is reflected in her past governance roles at the New Zealand Film Commission, the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, the Victoria University Foundation, the Victoria University Art Collection Trust, the Spark Art Trust, the Wellington Jazz Festival Trust, the Symphony Orchestra Foundation, and the New Zealand Film Archive. As Governor-General, Dame Patsy’s focus is on support for the arts, innovation, cultural diversity and initiatives that support sustainability and the environment. Dame Patsy is married to Sir David Gascoigne.

Hon Aupito William Sio arrived in New Zealand as an eight year old when his parents migrated from Samoa to live in Otahuhu in 1969. His father comes from the village of Letaupe in the district of Lotofaga, Samoa, while his mother’s side is from the village of Satapuala.

Aupito William has been the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Mangere since 2008. Previously he was a City Councillor in Auckland for the Otara ward, and the first Pacific Deputy Mayor for Manukau City. In 2017 he was sworn in as Minister for Pacific Peoples, Associate Minister for Courts, Associate Minister for Justice.

Aupito William is passionate about advocating for diversity and the needs of Pacific peoples. In addition, he has been very vocal about climate change and how it is affecting the smaller islands and atolls in the Pacific region.

Tim Grafton has been Chief Executive of the Insurance Council since November 2012. He has extensive experience in providing strategic, policy and communications advice to public and private sector leaders. Prior to taking up his position with ICNZ, he was an executive director of a leading market research company.

Tim has a strong understanding of the machinery of government, having been an adviser to former Prime Ministers and Ministers of Finance as well as leading private companies. He has extensive knowledge of post-disaster recovery issues and insurance regulation.

He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors and holds several governance roles. He is on the Executive Committee of the Global Federation of Insurance Associations, Chairs the Code Compliance Committee of the Fair Insurance Code, Chairs the Representative Users Group of the Deep South Science Challenge which focuses on research to adapt to climate change, and is on the New Zealand Advisory Board of the Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance and the Advisory Board of Victoria University, Wellington’s Chair in the Economics of Disasters.

Dr Richard Kaipo Lum is the founder and chief executive of Vision Foresight Strategy, which offers a range of foresight-based and strategy planning services. He is an academically trained futurist with a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawai‘i’s Alternative Futures Program. Along with various research articles in journals such as Futures and Journal of Future Studies, he also published his book 4 Steps to the Future: A Quick and Clean Guide to Creating Foresight in 2016. (Complimentary copies of this book will be provided to workshop participants.) He specialises in foresight and strategy development, planning implementation, political design and constitution making in the 21st century. His previous consulting work includes government clients such as the European Commission, the UK government and the US Department of Defence, as well as corporate clients such as Grant Thornton, IBM and PepsiCo. He lives in Honolulu.

Mele Tabukovu is of Fijian descent and moved to New Zealand when she was 11. This has influenced her passion in helping New Zealand and Pacific Island countries tackle serious climate change issues. Mele studied Political Science at the University of Canterbury. She has worked on climate change policy, at the Ministry for the Environment and Ministry for Primary Industries, for over five years. During this time, she has worked on developing policies in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, New Zealand’s transition to a low emissions economy and agricultural emissions.

Saia is a young Tongan, passionate about enabling and connecting people, business, entrepreneurship and achieving equitable outcomes. He is currently a Management Consultant at PwC, and a Board Member at Business Central NZ. He is also involved with many community initiatives and not-for-profits such as Navigators of Success (a social enterprise that aims to inspire and connect Māori and Pacific people) and TupuToa (a not-for-profit dedicated to growing Māori and Pacific leaders).

Gina is the current Deputy Principal of Holy Family School in Cannon’s Creek. (Holy Family School is a decile 1 school that serves an almost entirely Māori and Pacific Community). Holding various roles within the school over a number of years has enabled Gina to have an insight into the daily struggles that are present for those most in financial need in our society. Gina has a strong ability to think critically about the delineation between the impact of culture/s and the impact of poverty in its various guises on family life. Gina has a husband in I.T. and three teenage daughters.

Neville Peat is an award-winning Dunedin writer and environmentalist. His books, ranging from Afghanistan to Antarctica, span the themes of geography, biography, history and the natural world. His 22 books on the natural environment include Forever the Forest (1987), The Falcon and the Lark (1992), Wild Dunedin (1995), Seabird Genius (2011) and Rivers Rare (2016). Neville has been involved in nature conservation and environmental advocacy for over 30 years. He led the establishment of the Dunedin Environmental Business Network in 1993, and for six years, 2010-16, he chaired the Otago Natural History Trust, which established Orokonui Ecosanctuary. He has chaired the Pukekura (Taiaroa Head) Reserves Co-Management Trust Board since its inception in 2015. In 1998, he wrote the Government nomination of the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Area, and in 2007 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, New Zealand’s largest literary prize, to write a book about the Tasman Sea. He has been an Otago regional councillor (nine years) and Dunedin city councillor (three years) and was a member of the Government-appointed South-East Marine Protection Forum from 2014 to 2017. In summer, he works as a lecturer and guide on small expedition cruise ships touring the mainland New Zealand coast and the subantarctic islands.

Wendy McGuinness is the founder and chief executive of the McGuinness Institute. Wendy has studied at Manukau Technical Institute (NZCC), University of Auckland (BCom), University of Otago (MBA), Massey University (a range of environmental papers) and Harvard (Executive Programme on Driving Corporate Performance). In 2009 she became a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) for outstanding contribution to the accountancy profession and service to the community. She prepared the 1988 report Implementation of Accrual Accounting for Government Departments for the New Zealand Treasury. Wendy has worked in both the public and private sectors specialising in public sector reporting, risk management and future studies. In 2004 she established the Institute as a way of contributing to New Zealand’s long-term future. Since then she has, with her team, published a range of reports under the title Project 2058, written the book Nation Dates: Significant events that have shaped the nation of New Zealand and attended four World Futures conferences.

Read Wendy's Whakapapa (1,156KB PDF) or resume (25KB PDF).

Michel Tuffery is a New Zealand artist of Samoan, Tahitian and Cook Islands descent. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known artists and his work is held in many art collections in New Zealand and around the world. He lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand. Renowned as a printmaker, painter and sculptor, Tuffery has gained national and international recognition, and has made a major contribution to New Zealand art. He was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to art in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Structural Engineer - Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy, Kiribati

“Known to the world, Kiribati is one of the small developing countries that continues to face the effects of Climate Change, hence advanced engineering is needed to help design Kiribati to be a resilient country.

As a structural engineer, it is my dream to help build my country to adapt to the harsh environment through innovative and resilient designs of  its structures”

David is a social and urban development specialist with 18 years’ of international experience gained from over 30 countries, advising multilateral development banks (IFC, World Bank, ADB, Caribbean Development Bank, EIB, EBRD), Governments, the United Nations and the private sector on social, poverty, indigenous, land and gender issues.

Currently David is based in Wellington, with Jacobs engineering addressing fragile situations and resilience for atoll communities and small island developing states (SIDS). He is advising NZ MFAT on methods to address Coastal inundation and climate change in the Pacific, namely in Kiribati and Tokelau.

David integrates social development with a rights-based approach to social development using participatory methods to infrastructure development projects.

Formerly based in Fiji, with the Asian Development Bank’s he was ADBs first civil society advisor for the Pacific region with the objective of strengthening participatory approaches in project design.  He was the former social safeguards specialist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank managing the social and indigenous people (IP) impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects. David contributed to the revisions of the both EBRD and the World Bank’s revised IP policy. He has produced several Country Poverty Assessments for SIDS in the Caribbean.