Consideration of the Dunedin City Council's draft zero-carbon plan has been postponed by at least a few weeks.
The plan, which sets out the shifts Dunedin will need to make to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, was to be discussed yesterday but will now come before the council next month or in October.
"A couple of the key staff involved in this work are away sick, and we have received feedback from councillors that it would be best to consider this report alongside another on the costs of implementing the plan, which is also being prepared," a council spokesman said.
The council aimed to have both reports ready for a meeting scheduled for September 26.
Cr Lee Vandervis noted the absence of budgetary information and asked if this would be rectified.
Council chief executive Sandy Graham said planned investment scenarios signalled in the withdrawn report’s "next steps" were due to be considered about September and the two items would soon be presented together.
The council declared a climate emergency in 2019 and set a target for the city of getting to net-zero emissions of all greenhouse gases other than biogenic methane by 2030.
The council has said achieving targets is "possible if organisations, businesses and communities in Ōtepoti Dunedin collectively pull all the available levers as hard as possible to achieve the scale of change required".
