Pippa Coom is a rare Auckland Councillor who is championing climate change action and a faster shift to active transport. So how does she rate the council’s actions on transport, buildings and climate justice? And what’s it like to be an activist on the city’s front bench? Pippa is deputy chair of the Auckland Sustainability and Climate Change Committee and co-chair of the Hauraki Gulf Forum.

Before entering politics, she was a lawyer with Vector Energy and a community organiser of sustainability events, including Frocks on Bikes.