Dr Lyn Carter CRG member

Dr Lyn Carter is the Otago mana whenua representative on the Climate Reference Group and her whakapapa is to Kati Huirapa Runaka ki Puketeraki and Awarua Runaka. Lyn is retired from the University of Otago where she researched and lectured in Indigenous approaches to climate change adaptation.

Kai Tahu has an intergenerational focus to working in partnership with QLDC. Thus ensuring an economic, environmental, cultural, and socially sustainable region for our future generations.

Lyn sees the CRG as a pathway to ensuring mana wheuna values are embedded within all climate change responses in the QLDC region, and that this is achieved through a full and respectful Treaty Partnership.