Agenda of Joint Climate Change Adaptation Committee

Joint Climate Change Adaptation Committee item: 5.1

30 August 2021

TITLE:	Endorsement of Draft Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy
From:	Matt De Boer, Climate Change Resilience Coordinator
Authorised by Group Manager/s:	Jonathan Gibbard, Group Manager - Environmental Services, on 24 August 2021

Executive summary/Whakarāpopototanga

The impacts of climate change are already affecting people and natural systems in Northland. Climate impacts are projected to continue on an upward trend, with the expected severity of impacts depending on the success of global emissions reductions efforts.

Climate change adaptation, that is responses to the current and projected impacts of climate change, is a key responsibility for local government.

Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy (draft) (the Strategy) has been developed by staff and was presented at a workshop of the Joint Climate Change Adaptation Committee on the 9 August. An updated version of the strategy is presented here that incorporates many of the suggestions and comments from the workshop.

The Strategy has been developed with the knowledge that the drafting of new government legislation is likely to change the landscape within which local government will need to implement adaptation.

The purpose of the Strategy is to set the direction for a robust, collaborative approach to developing adaptation responses to the impacts of climate change in Te Taitokerau, by building a foundation for action while acknowledging the changing legislative environment and remaining agile.

Key objectives of the Strategy include:

· improving understanding of the risks of climate change to our region

· clarifying adaptation needs and responsibilities

· identifying opportunities to improve local government adaptation responses

· recommending priority actions for local government

A full-length version of the draft Strategy is presented Attachment 1, alongside supporting documents Priority Actions (Attachment 2) and technical report Climate Risk Overview (Attachment $). Priority Actions recommends 46 short, medium and long-term actions to help achieve the objectives of the Strategy. A conceptual summary of the draft Strategy is also presented (Attachment 3) and will be further progressed into a more publicly digestible summary of the Strategy..

The Strategy documents will undergo further editing, prior to being presented to each council for discussion in a workshop setting with elected members, tangata whenua representatives and senior management.

The final draft version of the Strategy documents will be presented to the Joint Committee at the 30 November meeting for endorsement. Once endorsed, the Strategy documents will be presented to each council for approval and adoption.

A joint staff communications working group on climate change adaptation has been established, and is developing a communications plan to assist the public release of the Strategy once adopted by all councils and will be presented to the November joint committee meeting for feedback.

Recommendation(s)

1. That the report ‘Endorsement of Draft Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy’ by Matt De Boer, Climate Change Resilience Coordinator and dated 16 August 2021, be received.

2. That the Joint Committee endorses the attached draft Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy to be further developed by staff through workshops with individual councils and tangata whenua representatives, with the final version of the Strategy presented to the Joint Committee for endorsement at the 30 November Joint Committee meeting.

Options

No.	Option	Advantages	Disadvantages
1	That the committee endorses the attached draft Strategy documents to be further developed by staff through workshops with individual councils and iwi/hapū, with the final version presented to the Joint Committee for endorsement at its meeting on 30 November.	Allows additional time to develop a more refined Strategy, and incorporate comments from councils and iwi/hapū prior to adoption by councils.	Delays the adoption of the Strategy, potentially until February 2022.
2	That the Joint Committee does not endorse the attached draft Strategy documents.	None are apparent.	Lack of coordination across councils on climate change adaptation.

The staff’s recommended option is Option 1: That the committee endorses the attached draft Strategy documents to be further developed by staff through workshops with individual councils and iwi/hapū representatives, with the final version presented to the Joint Committee for endorsement at the 30 November meeting.

Considerations

1. Environmental Impact

This decision will increase the ability of the region to proactively respond to the impacts of climate change now and in the future by enabling coordinated and aligned approaches to climate change adaptation between councils and iwi/hapū.

2. Community views

Formal consultation through the long-term plan process for each council has indicated significant community support for councils to actively engage in climate change adaptation.

3. Māori impact statement

We have heard from iwi and hapū that climate change is a significant issue for Māori in Northland. The proposed draft Strategy includes a specific analysis on risks to Māori and proposes a number of targeted actions to enable improved adaptation processes and outcomes for Māori in Northland.

4. Financial implications

While the majority of recommended actions are funded, there are unfunded actions and implementation of some of the initial actions will also require additional funding. I should be noted that the Joint Committee does not have delegated authority to adopt the Strategy or approve funding. Unfunded Strategy actions or resourcing will be required to go through standard annual funding processes at relevant councils.

5. Implementation issues

Climate change has implications across many council business areas. The draft Strategy specifically acknowledges the need for a more coordinated and aligned approach, both within and between councils. The vast majority of the recommended actions in Appendix 1 of the draft Strategy have existing funding and resourcing. However, the ongoing need for sufficient staff resources and funding has been raised as a concern and is included as a recommended Strategy action.

6. Significance and engagement

In relation to section 79 of the Local Government Act 2002, this decision is considered to be of low significance when assessed against council’s significance and engagement policy because it has previously been consulted on and provided for in council’s Long-Term Plan and/or is part of council’s day to day activities. This does not mean that this matter is not of significance to tangata whenua and/or individual communities, but that council is able to make decisions relating to this matter without undertaking further consultation or engagement.

7. Policy, risk management and legislative compliance

The proposed draft Strategy acknowledges the complexity of how climate change will impact the activities of local government, given the current lack of clear direction from central government on climate change adaptation, and work in progress on new legislation that may affect the roles and responsibilities of central and local government (i.e. RMA reforms, Climate Adaptation Act). In addition, different councils’ policies and risk management frameworks differ in regards climate change adaptation. However, staff believe that the proposed draft Strategy illustrates the need for a coordinated approach, and proposes targeted actions to help build a strong foundation to ensure Northland councils are prepared for the expected increase in focus on proactively anticipating the impacts of climate change.

Background/Tuhinga

Rationale

The impacts of climate change are already affecting people and natural systems in Northland. Climate impacts are projected to continue an upward trend, with the expected severity of impacts depending on the success of global emissions reductions efforts.

Climate change adaptation, that is responses to the current and projected impacts of climate change, is a key responsibility for local government, particularly as it relates to natural hazards, the provision of infrastructure and statutory planning. Climate change adaptation forms the focus of the Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy (draft) (the Strategy) presented in this paper.

Current legislative settings provide limited direction or tools to assist councils in applying adaptation principles in practice. The Randerson review of the Resource Management Act recommended the development of new resource management legislation, that will potentially strengthen functions relating to climate change adaptation. However, key pieces of legislation including the new Climate Change Adaptation Act, a proposed funding mechanism for adaptation, the National Adaptation Plan, as well as the Spatial Planning and Built and Natural Environments Acts, are all yet to be released, resulting in some uncertainty as to the specific adaptation tools and methods local government will be able to draw on.

The Strategy has been developed with the knowledge that the drafting of new legislation is likely to change the landscape within which local government will need to implement adaptation. Regardless of these uncertainties, there are actions (no brainers) councils can take now that will help put councils and our communities in a good position to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

The express aim of the Strategy is to identify opportunities to improve the knowledge, processes, partnerships, coordination and capacity of councils. This will help ensure we are building stable foundations to respond to climate change impacts in anticipation of new legislation. A small number of recommended priority actions (e.g. review of the Regional Policy Statement) will be directly affected by new legislation; this is reflected in both the description of the action, and its delivery timeframes. Most of the actions are aimed at taking sensible steps to ensure councils are effectively and consistently building our ability to anticipate and respond to climate change impacts, and are prepared for the requirements of the new legislation.

While this Strategy focuses on Adaptation, responses by councils to climate change should also look at the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at both the organisational and community level. At present this is being pursued both at the national level, through government legislation such as the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon Amendment) Act and the emissions trading scheme, as well as by individual councils though operational decisions and policy settings. Work on a collaborative Northland-wide approach to emissions reductions is in initial planning stages.

Background

At a recent (9 August) Joint Committee workshop, staff from all four Northland councils presented working drafts of the Strategy alongside supporting documents Appendix 1. Priority Actions, and technical report Climate Risk Overview.

Following the workshop, the documents were updated to reflect comments and suggestions received by committee members – the updated draft documents are attached to this paper. Due to restricted timeframes, not all changes were able to be completed in full (see ‘future actions’ section below).

These documents were prepared collaboratively by staff from across the four Northland councils, working together as the joint group Climate Adaptation Te Taitokerau (CATT). The delivery of the Strategy is one of the key actions outlined in the terms of reference for CATT, and is the product of over three years of regular meetings with staff and tangata whenua representatives, sharing knowledge and understanding, developing risk assessments, adaptation methodologies and programmes, and hosting workshops across councils.

The Strategy

Key objectives of the Strategy include:

· improving understanding of the risks of climate change to our region

· clarifying adaptation needs and responsibilities

· identifying opportunities to improve local government adaptation responses

· recommending priority actions for local government

The Strategy is set out in the following manner:

Section	Aim
Foundational elements · Scope and purpose · Whakatauki · Vision · Mission statement · Principles	Provides scope and strategic direction, and sets out principles
Key adaptation issues, responses and opportunities · Governance and management · Impacts on Māori · Coastal communities · Water availability · Natural hazards · Ecosystems and biosecurity · Public infrastructure	Discusses main themes where climate change adaptation intersects local government responsibilities. This section includes some details for different areas, as well as providing local examples. Links are given to relevant Priority Actions in Appendix 1.
Enabling effective adaptation 1. Improving knowledge and understanding 2. Growing relationships 3. Reducing risk and vulnerability 4. Building capacity	Outlines key themes and areas for action to improve councils’ adaptation responses, that are further developed in Priority Actions Appendix 1.
Appendix 1. Priority actions	Sets out specific actions to achieve above
Technical report - Climate risk overview	Provides context and background on climate change risks

Changes made since the workshop

Many changes were made to the draft documents following the workshop, and it is not possible to provide details of all amendments. Major changes are indicated in the below table:

Document component	Changes made	Additional changes needed
Scope	Reference to primary need for mitigation, adaptation being secondary, but necessary, response. Bullet points moved to ‘objectives’ heading.
Principles	Various amendments
Kaupapa	Translation added
Detail vs brevity of document	Full document not shortened. Additional references added. Proposed summary document (<10 pages) with suggested format supplied (see attached Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy Summary)	Further references required for full document. Summary document requires completion.
Legislative changes	More reference to the purpose of the Strategy to anticipate and prepare for legislative changes and the need to review strategy as required
Treaty-Te Titiri references	Further references added to clarify local government responsibilities under RMA and LGA
Content	Further details added re biodiversity conservation, wildfire. Reference to Department of Conservation and other documents Reference to Deep South Challenge research Call-out box placeholders for specific examples (e.g. Ruawai) Additional references to Iwi-hapū planning documents Language around infrastructure risk assessments, reference to three waters reform.	Call-out box examples to be completed
Links to priority actions	References to specific actions made in the ‘Key issues’ section Call-out boxes placeholders for Priority actions	Additional Priority actions references required Call-out boxes Priority actions details to be inserted
Weaving Māori narrative through document	Integration of Māori commentary throughout document	Integration of Māori commentary – more work required Possible use of weaving or taniwha reference to be investigated Proofreading to check macrons required Te reo translations for headings
Consistency between documents	Headings in Strategy and Priority actions made consistent	Complete proofread and edit required
Consistency of language	Limited changes made	Complete proofread and edit required
Layout/ pictures/graphs	None Proofreader/designer engaged	Complete set-out and design required

It was suggested at the Joint Committee workshop that both a more detailed and more concise version of the Strategy would each be useful. Staff therefore propose that a full-length version of the Strategy be developed, with additional references to research as well as links to Priority Actions. A separate summary document of under ten pages is proposed that will contain key messages, infographics and tabular information to provide a high-level overview. Examples of the proposed summary document are presented as an attachment. Please note this is shown as an example only and additional work is required to develop and complete the document.

Future directions

It is intended that the draft Strategy documents will have further refined prior to being presented to each council for discussion in a workshop setting with elected members, tangata whenua representatives and senior management. Comments and suggestions will be collated and incorporated into the draft documents. Where there are irreconcilable conflicting requirements between councils, differences will be noted and highlighted to the Joint Committee November meeting.

Once the final Strategy contents are drafted, the executive summary and Strategy Summary will be finalised, and forewords from the chair and deputy of the Joint Committee will be added.

The final draft version of the Strategy documents will be presented to the Joint Committee at the 30November meeting. Once endorsed, the Strategy documents will be presented to each council for approval and adoption.

Communications

A staff joint communications working group on climate change adaptation has been established, including staff from each of the four Northland councils. The group is developing a communications plan to assist the public release of the Strategy once adopted by all councils. The group is also beginning work on developing a broader communications plan for climate change adaptation in Te Taitokerau. This work will be presented to the November Joint Committee meeting.

Attachments/Ngā tapirihanga

Attachment 1: Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy DRAFT V2.0 ⇩

Attachment 2: Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy Appendix 1. Priority Actions DRAFT V2.0 ⇩

Attachment 3: Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy Appendix 2. Summary (proposed concept) ⇩

Attachment 4: Te Taitokerau Climate Adaptation Strategy Technical report Climate Risk Overview DRAFT ⇩

Joint Climate Change Adaptation Committee item: 5.4

30 August 2021

TITLE:	Update on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR6 report: Climate Change 2021: the physical science basis
From:	Matt De Boer, Climate Change Resilience Coordinator
Authorised by Group Manager/s:	Jonathan Gibbard, Group Manager - Environmental Services, on 23 August 2021

Whakarāpopototanga / Executive summary

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released ‘Climate Change 2021: the physical science basis’ as part of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

The report compiles recent scientific understandings of climate science and presents modelling of emissions scenarios to give projections of global warming and its impacts on earth systems, climate and weather. The report contains four main sections: A. Current state of the climate, B. Possible climate futures, C. Climate information for risk assessment and regional adaptation, and D. Limiting future change.

Improvements in scientific methodology have increased the ability to track global temperatures and climate impact-drivers, which show that the world is already experiencing significant impacts from climate change. Scientific advances also mean that the resolution of modelling and projections can give greater detail about the degree and timing of warming and associated climate impacts. New future emissions scenarios are presented (called shared socio-economic pathways) that enable climate impacts to be modelled both over time as well as for different regions across the globe.

The report shows that without rapid decarbonisation and negative emissions by atmospheric carbon removal, by 2040 humanity is likely to use up the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to under 1.5^o above pre-industrial global temperatures, and by 2060, to under 2^o. This is likely to result in increased extreme weather, heatwaves, sea level rise and drought across the world, with the degree of warming directly related to the amount of future greenhouse gas emissions. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the report a ‘Code Red’ for humanity.

The report is one of three working group reports that will be released prior to the AR6 synthesis report in September 2022.

Ngā mahi tūtohutia / Recommendation

That the report ‘Update on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR6 report: Climate Change 2021: the physical science basis’ by Matt De Boer, Climate Change Resilience Coordinator and dated 16 August 2021, be received.

Background/Tuhinga

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released an important document that forms part of the Sixth Assessment report (AR6)^{^[1]}. ‘The Physical Science Basis’ is the contribution from the IPCC’s Working Group I, a group of 244 authors drawn from 66 countries. There are an additional 517 contributing authors, over 14,000 cited references and over 78,000 expert and government review comments.

Assessment reports are generally released every 5-7 years, and have contributions from thousands of scientists, authors and reviewers. The previous report AR5, released in 2014, is the basis for much of our current climate change projections, including NIWA’s 2016 ‘Climate impacts and implications in Northland’ report^{^[2]}, and Ministry for the Environment guidance on sea level rise and coastal hazards^{^[3]}, which help guide regional coastal hazards mapping.

The AR6 Working Group I report addresses the most updated physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, global and regional climate simulations. It shows how and why climate has changed to date, and the improved understanding of human influence on a wider range of climate characteristics, including extreme events. There is a focus on regional information that can be used for climate risk assessments.

The report shows some changes from the previous AR5 report. Attempts have been made to better integrate knowledge and evidence from different scientific disciplines into focussed chapters. More regional information is given, which can help develop regional risk assessments. There are also changes to the methodologies and terminology used in modelling of future emissions scenarios and pathways. In the Fifth Assessment Report, four Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) were used to simulate future climate change. This time the IPCC uses Shared Socio-Economic Pathways (SSPs) that look at a greater range of options / scenarios. There’s a greater focus on lower degrees of warming because of these scenarios. Levels of warming like 1.5°C and 2°C can be assessed more rigorously than in AR5.

Notably, the language from scientists has become more certain, urgent and solutions-oriented. While the underlying message may not have changed much since the AR5 report, advances in science mean that uncertainty has been reduced, and the resolution and predictive power of models has improved. This generally tells us a more detailed, but no less grim, picture of the direction we are headed under the current regime of global carbon management policies, but also shows that we have an opportunity to reverse the current trends with determination and dedicated leadership.

The report contains four major sections.

A. The current state of the climate

Human influence on global temperature rise is ‘unequivocal’, causing widespread, unprecedented changes in various earth systems, resulting in extremes of weather and climate. One example is the observed increase in the rate of sea level rise from 1.3mm/yr (1901-1971), to 1.9mm/yr (1971-2006), to 3.7mm/yr (2006-2019). New calculations for the earth’s equilibrium climate sensitivity - the amount of long-term warming resulting from a doubling of CO2 levels - is now estimated to be 3^o Celsius.

B. Possible climate futures

Five emissions scenarios are presented as a result of intercomparisons between a large number of leading global climate models. These are called SSP’s – Shared Socioeconomic Pathways.^{^[4]} Each describes a different emissions trajectory, ranging from very low (SSP1-1.9 - immediate reductions including net negative emissions shortly after 2050), to very high (SSP5-8.5 - a constant rise in emissions, peaking just before 2100). All scenarios project continued warming until at least 2050, with 1.5^o warming above 1900 levels reached by 2040 in all scenarios, and 2^o reached by 2060 in all but two scenarios. Global changes such as extreme weather, heatwaves and reduction in snow cover are amplified by increased warming, with an intensification of the wet and dry events in the global water cycle. In addition, the ability for land and ocean to uptake CO2 will be increasingly limited. Major changes to earth systems including oceans and cryosphere are likely to be irreversible for centuries to millennia.

Global mean sea level is ‘virtually certain’ to continue rising over the 21^st century, the rate dependent on global emissions. There is limited evidence for high-impact, low-likelihood outcomes resulting from the crossing of systems thresholds causing Antarctic ice-sheet collapse; sea level rise of up to 5m by 2150 ‘cannot be ruled out’ under a high emissions scenario.

C. Climate information for risk assessment and regional adaptation

Natural variability in climate systems will continue to interact with human-caused warming in the short and medium-term, and should be considered in planning. With an increase in global heating, ‘climate impact-drivers’ (physical climate system conditions such as means, events and extremes, for different categories including heat/cold, wet/dry, wind, snow/ice, coastal/ocean) will increasingly and concurrently affect regions around the world. This will likely result in increased glacial/ice melting and extreme heat; heavy rain and flooding; agricultural and ecological drought; and sea level rise and coastal flooding/erosion. Compound events where multiple climate impact-drivers intersect are also increasingly likely, such as extreme fire weather, heatwaves with drought, and combined coastal/fluvial flooding. Low-likelihood/high-consequence events carry high risks for human and ecological systems and need to be considered in risk assessments.

D. Limiting future change

There is a linear relationship between the amount of greenhouse gases emitted and the level of global heating caused. For every 1000 Gt CO2 emitted, the global temperature is expected to increase by 0.45^o, implying not only that net-zero emissions are required to stabilise temperatures, but that to limit warming to a specific level (as in the Paris Agreement) there is a finite budget of greenhouse gases we will be able to emit. If current annual global CO2 emissions (~35Gt/yr) continue unabated, after 12 years we will have used up the remaining carbon budget required to limit global heating to 1.5^o (i.e. global temperatures exceeding 1.5^owill be more likely than not). Removal of carbon from the atmosphere (CDR) to achieve negative emissions, thereby reducing total atmospheric CO2, is technically feasible and is included in the very-low and low-emissions SSP emissions scenarios. Rapid reductions in emissions, as portrayed in very low- and low-emissions scenarios, can result in discernible effects on greenhouse gases and air quality in the short to medium term.

Future reports to be released as part of the IPCC’s AR6 include the Working Group II report ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’, which will focus on complex risks, adaptation, regional focus chapters and cross-sectoral issues. AR6 will also include the Working Group III report ‘Mitigation of Climate Change’ which addresses sustainable development, the intersection of mitigation and adaptation, and associated risks and opportunities. In September 2022, the IPCC will also release a synthesis report which will include the three working group reports as well as three previously released IPCC special reports, ‘Global warming of 1.5^o’, ‘Climate Change and Land’ and ‘Oceans and the cryosphere in a changing climate’.

Implications for Northland

It is likely that in light of updated projections contained in AR6, councils will need to review some of the climate projections we currently use. Given the recent release of the report, a detailed analysis has not yet taken place, although there are indications that the updated projections are more extreme than data currently used by Northland councils. For instance, the sea level rise values used in NRC's coastal hazards mapping for 2080 (0.6m) used the 'RCP 8.5M' emissions scenario. At the time of the AR5 report, this scenario represented a 'business as usual' case where the burning of fossil fuels continued largely unabated with very high greenhouse gas concentrations to 2100 and beyond. However, a quick look at the AR6 sea level rise projections (AR6 WGI Summary for Policy makers, p29, table d) shows that 0.6m by 2080 is projected to take place in emissions scenarios SSP2, SSP3 and SSP5 (i.e. all but the two lowest emissions scenarios). Staff anticipate that there will be other difference in projections of climate impact-drivers such as mean temperature, heatwaves, rainfall intensity, wind, and drought.

The recently released coastal hazard maps use sea level rise values taken from the IPCC's previous AR5 report, as referenced in the Ministry for the Environment 'Coastal hazards and climate change; guidance for local government' (2017). Over the next 1-2 years, sea level rise values for New Zealand will be updated by NIWA using the recent data from global climate models and published in an updated MfE guidance document. While the current sea level rise values used in the regional hazard maps for coastal erosion and coastal flooding will eventually require updating, they represent the best available data for Northland at the present time. Compared to AR6 sea level rise values, the levels used in NRC's current hazard maps appear to have more likelihood of occurring than previously thought, thus reinforcing the need to bring them into the statutory planning regime as soon as possible. NRC’s approach is to update hazard maps as new data becomes available - updates will be completed within five years of the recent map release, giving adequate time for the recent data to be provided at the regional scale.

Once updated regional climate projections have been finalised, these will need to be assessed against current settings in relevant council policies and standards such as engineering design standards and hazard maps.

Attachments/Ngā tapirihanga

Attachment 1: IPCC AR6 WGI Headline statements ⇩

Attachment 2: IPCC AR6 WGI Summary for Policymakers ⇩

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-i/

[2] https://www.nrc.govt.nz/environment/climate-change/climate-change-in-northland/useful-resources

[3] https://environment.govt.nz/publications/coastal-hazards-and-climate-change-guidance-for-local-government/

[4] Shared Socioeconomic Pathways include SSP1-1.9, SSP1-2.6, SSP3-4.5, SSP5-7.0, and SSP5-8.5. SSP’s refer to the projected ways in which society achieves projected levels of emissions, and will be examined in detail in a future IPCC report. The number following the hyphen (e.g. SSP1-1.9) relates to the ‘radiative forcing’ – that is, the amount of additional warming (measured in Watts per m2 of earth surface) as a result of the combination of greenhouse gases in the model.

Deputy Chairperson, WDC Representative Delaraine Armstrong	FNDC Councillor David Clendon	KDC Representative Fiona Kemp
WDC Councillor Anna Murphy	KDC Mayor Jason Smith	FNDC Representative Antony Thompson
NRC Representative Rihari Dargaville

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Authorised by Group Manager/s:	Jonathan Gibbard, Group Manager - Environmental Services, on 23 August 2021

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