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section: The causes
- A brief history of climate change: who knew what, when
- What causes climate change?
- Would the climate be warming without humans?
- Is it just a cycle? (Earth’s wobbly orbit)
- Sunspots & solar activity
- Land use: agriculture & cities
- Volcanoes
- Ocean currents
- Black carbon & ash
- Greenhouse gases & how they work
- – Carbon dioxide & the carbon cycle
- – Methane
- – Nitrous oxide
- – Clouds & water vapour
- – Ozone
- – Man-made industrial chemicals
- How to start an Ice Age!
- What’s in a name?
Section: The evidence
- How we know if extreme weather is due to climate change
- Planetary boundaries & dangerous tipping points
- Warming feedback effects
- Antarctic melting
- Greenland melting
- Arctic sea ice loss
- Ocean currents changing
- Melting permafrost & burning ice
- Marine heatwaves
- New Zealand’s disappearing glaciers
- Black carbon & ash on snow
- Oceans becoming more acidic
- Seasons are changing
- How we know about past climates: proxy data
- IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
section: The impacts
- Irreversible tipping points
- Aotearoa’s changing climate
- The forecast for Canterbury
- How hot could it get?
- What will it cost us?
- Floods: more & bigger
- Rising sea levels
- Canterbury sea levels
- Increasingly acidic oceans
- Marine heatwaves
- Changing ocean currents
- More wildfires, less snow
- Black carbon & ash on snow
- Losing our glaciers
- Animals & plants are moving
- Biodiversity vanishing
- Broken life-support systems
- More diseases and pandemics
- Vanishing Arctic ice impacts NZ
Section: The response
- What are we doing about it?
- Adaptation: managed retreat from coasts and rivers
- Plant trees…but mostly pines!
- The emissions trading scheme: ETS
- The ‘carbon free’ economy
- Negative emissions technology
- Enhanced mineral weathering
- Predicting the future: how climate models work
- Restoring nature, our climate superhero
- What local people are doing
- How nature-friendly are my farm actions?
- IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- The Paris Agreement
- NDCs: Nationally Determined Contributions
- COP26: Bankrupting the carbon budget
- COP26: Outcomes and pledges
- New Zealand policies & strategies
- Climate Change Commission
- A brief history of climate change: who knew what, when
Section: Native Ecosystems
- Native ecosystems: our climate superheroes
- Our natural heritage
- The villains: predators & pests
- Our native forests
- Our soils: carbon super-sponges
- Our rivers & lakes
- Our wetlands
- Our dunes & coastal wetlands
- Our estuaries & hapua
- Our oceans: the ultimate climate superheroes
- Our blue carbon
- Seaweed
- Ecosystem services: free stuff from Nature
- Losing our biodiversity
- Plants & animals on the move!
Section: Our places
section: Innovation
- Start here
- Negative emissions technology
- Storing CO2 in our rocks
- Carbon negative concrete
- Enhanced mineral weathering: store carbon in basalt soil fertiliser
- Biocement: bricks grown from microorganisms
- Cellular agriculture: lab grown meat & milk
- Blue carbon: seaweed
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- Adaptation: NZ National Science Challenges
- Breaking Boundaries: how you can be part of the solution
- Callaghan Innovation: clean tech NZ
- Carbon Crop: carbon farming assessment
- Carbon negative bio-thermoplastic
- Climate Leaders Coalition NZ
- Creating Azola forests
- EECA: Energy Efficiency Authority
- EmGuard: NZ made biodegradable plant guards
- Environmental Defence Society
- Farm actions: assessing how nature-friendly they are
- Fungi-based packaging alternatives
- Generation Less
- GIDI: NZ Govt. investment in decarbonising industry
- Geoengineering
- Landcare Research: greenhouse gases
- International legal action to ‘stop ecocide’
- NIWA: climate research
- NZ Lawyers for Climate Action
- Policy & planning: how to avoid maladaptation
- Project Drawdown
- Reducing nitrous oxide in agriculture
- Regenerative agriculture: National Science Challenges
- Regenerative agriculture: Quorum Sense
- RethinkX: disruptive technologies
- Sustainable Seas: National Science Challenge
- Transition Engineering: AEMS lab NZ
- 100% compostable drink bottles made in NZ