A Climate Emergency

The Auckland Council has voted to declare a climate change emergency. At a packed meeting where public submissions were been led by teenagers and young adults, councilors voted to make the declaration and to move towards new policies to prevent climate change.

Generation Zero, representing high school climate strikers, said many of them are about to turn 18 and councilors would lose their votes in this year's election if they didn't act.

We're joined by Professor James Renwick from Victoria University to try and work out what these council decisions mean, and whether they matter.