March - April 2025 Pānui Nau mai, haere mai, welcome to our latest pānui! This pānui contains OraTaiao updates, upcoming events, and news in climate health. Registrations and presentation proposals are now open for the 2025 Taiao. Tangata. Hauora: Climate Health & Sustainable Healthcare Conference . We welcome you to register. As we move into colder months, health and climate spheres remain hotly contested. We are encouraged by the Parliament’s rejection of the Treaty Princip

August - September 2024 Pānui Kia ora, welcome to our latest newsletter. This pānui shares an update on OraTaiao activities over the last two months and opportunities to get involved.  As this was being drafted, we were deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of our friend, colleague, and recent OraTaiao Executive Board member, Dougal Thorburn. Those whose lives he touched as a father, partner, colleague, athlete, and huge environmental advocate will remember his wit, i

Kia ora Friend -- 2024 has certainly carried on from where 2023 left off. It is hard not to be downcast by the growing list of retrograde and damaging decisions being taken by our government such as the (deep breath) repeal of tobacco-free legislation, removal of the clean-car discount, disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora, assaults on Te Reo Māori, threats to undo the role Te Tiriti o Waitangi plays in Aotearoa, the publication of a draft Government Position Statement on tran

Kia ora Friend -- The recent election has been interesting, to say the least. We saw unprecedented outcomes for Te Pāti Māori and The Green Party, who have the best climate health policies of the bunch, but the drift to the right means there will be a period of uncertainty and adaptation for all climate advocacy groups. With the expected ‘coalition of climate chaos’, we are intending to pivot our energy towards the flaxroots of climate advocacy, as we push for evidence-based

Kia ora A hearty start-of-winter welcome to you all. We are pleased to have another packed newsletter for you. Indeed, things have been so busy that we have made the decision to move to a monthly schedule for these and you can expect one at the beginning of every month. We are also delighted to announce that we have crossed the significant threshold of 1,000 members…as every good salesperson knows, 1,000 sounds a lot larger than 999! The past two months has seen a significant

Kia ora Friend -- There has been an enormous amount of climate work over the past month, both here and internationally. The recent climate flooding in the North Island was a real spur to the crowds who attended the School Strike 4 Climate early in the month. OraTaiao extended our Medical Certificate for Climate Health to both the strikers and their supporters- climate action is health action. OraTaiao is also delighted to welcome our latest organisational member, the NZ Hospi

Kia ora Friend -- Though the year is still new, the realm of climate and health have remained eventful. Severe storms and flooding battering Te Ika a Māui continue to be a solemn expression of the critical importance of climate action to protect planetary and human wellbeing. With lives and homes lost, the immediate stress must be on support and recovery for those affected, but we – and our politicians – need to maintain a clear awareness that without a just, equitable and he