Together, the DCC and PAN conducted a stocktake of existing strategies, plans and policies and facilitated a series of workshops with DCC teams, confirming there was already strong alignment with existing environmental efforts and measurement.   PAN then completed a planetary accounting assessment of the Dunedin region – quantifying ten environmental footprints across wai (water), whenua (land), and hau (air), and establishing preliminary science-based targets for each to complete the first iteration of the environmental component of the Otepoti Doughnut. A key focus for this collaboration was to ensure New Zealand's first doughnut had it's own ‘Aotearoa flavour.’ The Ōtepoti Doughnut has been weaved through the newly established Te Taki Haruru (Māori Strategic Framework), and establishes actionable metrics and targets with Planetary Accounting. This not only puts us on the map with the likes of Amsterdam, Leeds, Devon, Sydney, Melbourne, and Brussels, but it also shows how we can adapt the model to suit our indigenous cultural needs, and how to create an action-oriented Doughnut that embeds the ‘how’ as well as the ‘why’ creating a recipe for success.