Expert briefings aim to reshape New Zealand’s election conversation about the future

As New Zealand heads towards a pivotal general election, organisers of the 26 June Reality of Everything Symposium are urging New Zealanders to engage with the defining challenge of our time: the planetary polycrisis.

Organisers of the sold-out symposium (with hundreds more participating via livestream) have now made recordings of expert briefings, along with transcripts and key points, freely available online, with the aim of shifting the national conversation towards the interconnected challenges that will shape our nation’s future. The recordings represent New Zealand’s first freely accessible, cross-disciplinary briefing series on the polycrisis, covering climate change, biodiversity collapse, Te Tiriti issues, energy realities, food security, public health, trade and public finance.

Now there is recognition from the political sphere that these interconnected crises require urgent attention. Symposium organisers have been invited to present a “mini symposium” at Parliament covering food security, trade and public finance.

“Unless we understand the whole system, we risk treating symptoms rather than causes.”

The recordings, transcripts and key points are available for free at https://realityofeverything.org.