Kaeden Watts

Guest writer

Kaeden Watts (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāi Tūhoe) works at the intersection between climate change and Indigenous sovereignty, including within the international framework convention on climate change, and spent his formative years in Napier.

Image: Getty Images; additional design Tina Tiller

Cyclone Gabrielle showed us that climate change is a health emergency, too

From the immediate horror of death and injury to the more insidious aftereffects, severe weather events prove climate change is a matter of survival.

By Kaeden Watts

& Isabella Lenihan-Ikin | 3rd March, 2023