Opinion – Bike AucklandFormer Waitemat & Gulf Ward councillor Pippa Coom says progressive climate policies come from progressive councils, & those are elected by you. It’s a policy or, if you like, a strategy originally intended to put a big dent in the city’s transport emissions. It arrived at a time when the climate crisis wasn’t being quietly ignored: The city had declared a climate emergency in 2019 and later the following year followed up with Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri, Auckland’s Climate Plan. The new climate plan was ambitious – it aimed to cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 against a 2016 baseline. Former Waitematā and Gulf Ward councillor Pippa Coom says progressive climate policies come from progressive councils, and those are elected by…you.