Community is Climate Resilience is a timely webinar exploring how communities responded to the North Island severe weather events of early 2023, and what these experiences can teach us as extreme weather becomes more frequent and more disruptive.
Drawing on the Community is Climate Resilience report published by Environment Hubs Aotearoa in early 2026, this session brings together those who lived the response and those who helped document it.
We will hear from Georgina Morisson and Jen Pannell, who produced the report, alongside community responders Harata (Char) Gibson and Emma Horgan, who played key roles in their regions’ responses and will share what unfolded on the ground during and after the events.
David Hall, co-founder of Toha Network, will also reflect on the potential of new knowledge and digital technologies to enable and empower community-led responses to climate-related impacts.
The webinar explores what worked, what didn’t, and where gaps in official responses were felt most strongly. Rather than focusing solely on systems and institutions, this kōrero highlights the strength, adaptability, and local knowledge that communities bring to crisis response.
As climate-related emergencies increasingly affect communities across Aotearoa, there is an urgent need to learn from those with lived experience. This webinar invites participants to reflect on how community-led knowledge, relationships and preparedness are critical components of climate resilience — now and into the future.