Welcome To Climate School For Ministers Toy Assembly – Parents for Climate Aotearoa

What: Toy Assembly to introduce the Term One Energy curriculum to Ministers who are failing the basics, let alone doing them brilliantly.

When: Wednesday 4 March 11am – 2pm – Delivery of curriculum to MPs likely to be after 1pm

Where: Parliament Grounds

Who: Parents for Climate Aotearoa

Hundreds of toys will be descending on Parliament on Wednesday for this year’s toy assembly, representing the children and young people of Aotearoa.

Parents for Climate Aotearoa are holding the Toy Assembly to welcome the Prime Minister and his team to the Climate School for Ministers to highlight that they alsoneed to get the basics right and do them brilliantly. The Ministers will be assigned a different curriculum each term to support them to get back to basics with an hour a day each of reading, writing and maths.

“What I would say to you is, we need the Government to respect and look after the future hopes, dreams and lives of our children. These toys are assembling on behalf of our young kids, to remind the government that they need to model doing the basics brilliantly and they are failing spectacularly in achieving that” said Parents for Climate Aotearoa’s Founder Alicia Hall.

“It’s hypocritical to expect our tamariki to reach certain standards when Ministers seem to lack the basic understanding of Climate Change 101. With increasing weather events and states of emergencies declared, that is simply unacceptable.

“Just like the government has set targets and outcomes in the education of our tamariki, strong foundations must also be laid for climate action that is critical for our kids’ future health and wellbeing. We would say to them they can’t keep blaming the ‘last lot’ forever.”

“We want to see our Prime Minister and his leadership team taking their time in climate school seriously. A minimum 90% attendance rate is expected and time off spent on climate denying projects like coal and oil exploration, building LNG terminals etc will be marked as unjustified absences which could lead to further interventions.”

“The term one curriculum is on Energy and if they do not achieve the standards expected on accelerating renewable and resilient energy this term, they are in serious danger of failing their final exam in Term 4 and returning to the Opposition Benches.”

The curriculum will be delivered to the ‘Ministers” by tamariki at approx 1pm.