Otago Takes Three Years to Develop Climate Action Plan
University hopes the climate will wait for them to get their shit together Otago Uni approved a Carbon Zero Programme in 2019, but did not hire a staff member to work on it until last month. The programme was first proposed in 2018. “The programme business case, including a road map to carbon zero, will be created approved and well underway by the end of 2021,” said Otago’s Sustainability Office Head, Ray O’Brien. He explained that “Covid impacted the recruitment of the Programme Manager.” “We’re in the middle of a climate crisis, yet Otago is not going to have their climate ...