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Submission: Options available to reduce GHG emissions 2022-2035
Ralph Chapman, Helen Viggers and Philippa Howden-Chapman, members of the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities, recently sent a submission to the Interim Climate Change Commission: Response to Call for evidence on Options available to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the period 2022-2035. READ MORE
Posted in climate change and energy and health and housing & building and news & events and NZ policy issues and transport and urban design on 27 November 2019 – 8:21 amSubmission on the National Policy Statement on Urban Development
Two of our researchers, Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman and Associate Professor Ralph Chapman, wrote a submission on behalf of the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities to the Ministry for the Environment on the National Policy Statement on Urban Development. Chapman, R. and Howden-Chapman, P. READ MORE
Posted in climate change and energy and health and housing & building and news & events and NZ policy issues and research and transport and urban design on 18 October 2019 – 2:40 pmSubmission on the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill
The NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities recently made a submission to the Environment Select Committee on the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill. Chapman, R., Howden-Chapman, P., Randal, E., & Ombler, J. (2019). Submission to the Environment Select Committee on the Climate READ MORE
Posted in behaviour change and climate change and energy and health and housing & building and news & events and research and transport and urban design and urban governance on 28 August 2019 – 3:58 pmVideo: Community severance – the barrier effects of busy roads
We held a seminar with speakers Professor Jennifer Mindell and Dr Nadine Dodge. What happens when you can’t get where you need to go because of busy roads? Apart from feeling frustrated is it bad for your health? Watch the video.
Posted in behaviour change and energy and health and news & events and transport and urban design and video & audio on 7 March 2019 – 2:59 pmSeminar: Slowing down for a healthier, wealthier and more sustainable city
We held a seminar with speaker Rodney Tolley. For more than a century, a principle goal of transport strategies in the city has been for us to ‘go faster’, in order to save time. What do we do when we see that going faster isn’t saving any time?
Posted in behaviour change and climate change and health and news & events and NZ policy issues and transport and urban design on 20 February 2019 – 5:43 pm