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indigenous climate action

Delegates from Te Kāhu Pōkere at COP30 in Belém, Pará, Brazil.

From the Amazon to Aotearoa: Māori rangatahi on the frontlines of Cop30

Inside Cop30 with the first iwi-mandated Māori delegation.
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By Shannon Mihaere
Guest writer
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 & Waimārama Hawke | 28th November, 2025
Guest writer
Hank from Taiao points out his marae on the hill. (Photo: Nadine Anne Hura)

A single light on the mahau: On the parallel worlds of climate change storytelling

The skills, way of life and collective mentality that the climate crisis is forcing upon us are those that tūpuna Māori always had.
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By Nadine Hura | 30th January, 2024
Contributing writer
Rāwiri Tinirau and members of Te Morehu Whenua’s research team (Photo: Nadine Anne Hura, additional design Tina Tiller)

Five climate lessons from Māori communities (that are guaranteed not to depress you)

Lesson 1: Hope is shaped like a shovel and will give you blisters.
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By Nadine Hura | 23rd January, 2024
Contributing writer
Aperahama Edwards, Mere Takoko and Lisa Tumahai are the trio behind Hinemoana Halo Ocean Fund (Image: Archi Banal)

Māori climate startup secures multimillion-dollar investment at Cop28

A potentially game-changing initiative from Aotearoa has just received a US$50m investment in Dubai.
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By Laura Gemmell | 13th December, 2023
Guest writer
The author and her son visit her dad on the job (Photos: Supplied)
Opinion

Once were maunga: What’s crushed when roads are built

Dad still remembers how the earth used to shake with every blast at the quarry. He could feel the ground trembling and shivering through his boots.
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By Nadine Hura | 12th December, 2023
Contributing writer
Kaeden Watts (Image design: Tina Tiller)

A rangatahi Māori perspective on Cop28

It's more crucial than ever that young indigenous people get along to events like Cop, says Kaeden Watts.
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By Tommy de Silva | 8th December, 2023
Guest writer
Prince Harry with Rhys Darby and Dave Fane in his promotional video for Travalyst (Photo: Screenshot, additional design by Tina Tiller)

If New Zealanders won’t listen to Māori, maybe they’ll listen to Prince Harry

Cringe value aside, In the context of continuing attacks on mātauranga Māori, Prince Harry's video almost felt like progress.
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By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes | 19th May, 2022
Contributing writer
New subdivisions spring up around the wading birds in Papakura (Photo: Supplied; additional design by Tina Tiller)

Riding the tide home

As sea walls are chewed up and spat out like loose teeth, coastal property owners are scrambling to sell. All the while, Māori are packing up their cars and driving headlong into the eye of it.
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By Nadine Hura | 11th May, 2022
Contributing writer
Te Aomihia Walker in Iceland (Photo: Supplied; additional design by Tina Tiller)

The ocean that binds us: How indigenous collaboration is helping to protect the moana

Thousands of years of indigenous knowledge can help rebuild our marine environments – and one Ngāti Porou wahine is leading the way.
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By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes | 28th April, 2022
Contributing writer
Photo: Supplied
Opinion

Being an Indigenous woman at Cop26

Amplifying our voices in spaces made to keep us quiet.
By Taylor Jo Aumua | 1st December, 2021
Guest writer
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Te taiao under threat: Indigenous voices speak up on climate change

Climate change has already irreversibly changed the maramataka, the Māori lunar calendar.
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By Leonie Hayden | 3rd November, 2021
Contributing writer
Nadine Anne Hura and her daughter Bobbie, riding shotgun (Photo: Supplied)

The day is new, but this road is old

How can we talk about solving this sickness if we don’t acknowledge its fundamental causes? We are unwell because Papatūānuku is unwell.
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By Nadine Hura | 30th May, 2021
Contributing writer
Waitangi Day 2014 (Photo: Jason Oxenham/Getty Images)

On the waka to carbon zero: Where have we come from, and where are we going?

For Māori, if our whenua drowns, we drown.
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By Nadine Hura | 1st March, 2021
Contributing writer
One great lesson from this absolutely awful year

One great lesson from this absolutely awful year

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By José Barbosa | 18th December, 2020
Senior Content Creator
Photo: Sylvie Whinray

Give power to Māori and marginalised communities and we’ll get through the climate emergency

Today, our parliament will declare a climate emergency. Three young climate leaders say it’s a grim marker of the scale of human-caused planetary collapse, but we need to ensure the government does not sacrifice the important for the urgent. 
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By Áine Kelly-Costello, Kaeden Watts & Adam Currie | 2nd December, 2020
Guest writer
Te Ara Whatu climate activist Haylee Koroi. Photo: Nicole Hunt

How to centre indigenous people in climate conversations

We need to amplify indigenous voices around the climate emergency, but what does that mean in practice?
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By Nadine Hura | 1st November, 2019
Contributing writer
L-R: Helena Gualinga, India Logan-Riley, Brianna Fruean and Autumn Peltier.

It’s not just Greta: the Nobel Peace Prize belongs to indigenous climate activists

Adam Currie questions why the public are so keen to hear the Swedish teen's message over the indigenous youth who raised their voices long before Greta.
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By Adam Currie | 11th October, 2019
Guest writer
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim with Getrude Clement, youth representative from Tanzania, and Leonardo DiCaprio at the signature ceremony for the Paris Agreement at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York (Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

‘We are the victims but we are also the solution’: Indigenous climate activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

She was recently named by Time as one of the 15 women leading the fight against climate change. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim tells Kera Sherwood-O'Regan about the effects of the changing climate on her village growing up in Chad, especially on women and girls, and what spurred her to action.
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By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 27th September, 2019
Guest writer
Image: Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho

Step up for Tāmaki: Rangatahi are ready to take action on climate

A new web series challenges the false idea that rangatahi Māori “aren’t engaged” in politics or civic participation, and presents what aims to be a more hopeful and inclusive alternative. 
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By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 19th September, 2019
Guest writer
S.O.U.L activist Pania Newton addresses UN Secretary General António Guterres and Minister for Climate Change James Shaw. (Photo: Kera Sherwood O’Regan)

Breakfast with the Secretary General: Māori activists press the UN on climate change

The United Nations Secretary General has given a nod to indigenous rangatahi in their fight for climate justice.
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By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 14th May, 2019
Guest writer

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