Chapter 9: Climate Action, Biodiversity and Environment
Each section of the WCCC Draft Development Plan needs to be revised and changed in order to make it into the WCCC Survival Planas does the information from the documents the Draft Development Plan is based on in so far as those documents are out of date in relation to climate change. There is no point in relying on past documents unless they are based on the IPCC AR6 projections for 2030 and 2050. The IPPCC AR6 is based on 10,000 scientifically peer-reviewed up to date papers so it can be relied upon. Step 6 in this submission includes some more of the latest thinking on climate change. The WCCC expert staff are well aware of this thinking but now need to be given the licence by our Councillors and by national Government to bring the whole process of producing a development plan up to date too so that Survival is the priority right now and for the next 30 years.