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Causes (Hazards)
- 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
- Hydrogen
- Greenhouse gases & how they work
- – Carbon dioxide & the carbon cycle
- – Methane: biogenic (mostly cows) & ‘natural’ gas
- – Nitrous oxide (mostly agriculture)
- – Clouds & water vapour
- – Ozone
- – Man-made industrial chemicals
- – Aerosol pollution
- How to start an Ice Age!
- What’s in a name?
Effects (Risks)
- Extreme weather (Event Attribution)
- Climate tipping points
- Feedback effects of warming
- Wildfires increasing
- Antarctica melting
- Antarctic sea ice disappearing
- Arctic sea ice disappearing
- Greenland melting
- Ocean currents changing
- Oceans becoming warmer
- Oceans becoming more acidic
- Melting permafrost & burning ice
- New Zealand’s disappearing glaciers
- Black carbon & ash on snow
- Seasons are changing
- How we know about past climates: proxy data
Impacts
- Irreversible tipping points
- Feedback effects
- Aotearoa’s changing climate
- How hot could it get?
- What will it cost us?
- Food insecurity
- The forecast for Canterbury
- Floods bigger & more often
- Wildfires bigger & more often
- Black carbon & ash on snow
- Losing our glaciers
- Sea levels rising
- Canterbury sea levels
- Ocean acidfication
- Marine heatwaves increasing
- Ocean currents changing
- Animal & plants moving or dying
- Biodiversity vanishing
- Broken life-support systems
- More diseases and pandemics
- Arctic ice loss impacts NZ
- Antarctic sea ice loss impacts NZ
Response
- What is being done?
- Brief history of climate change: who knew what, when
- IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- The Paris Agreement
- NDCs: Nationally Determined Contributions
- Climate Change Commission
- Emissions trading scheme: ETS
- NZ policies & strategies
- Modelling the future climate
- Technology: capture & store CO2
- – Use enhanced rock weathering
- – Store CO2 in trees…but mostly pines!
- – Store CO2 underground
- – Store CO2 in the ocean
- – Store CO2 in concrete
- – Store CO2 in concrete Copy
- Retreat from coasts and rivers
- Managing climate anxiety
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
- Our blue carbon
- Seaweed
- Seagrass
- Ecosystem services: free stuff from Nature
- Losing our biodiversity
- Plants & animals on the move!
Ōtautahi Christchurch
- Can Christchurch plant its way out of climate change?
- Avon Forest Park
- Avon-Ōtākaro Network
- Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust
- Ōpāwaho Heathcote River Network
- Greening the Red Zone
- Travis Wetlands
- Styx Living Laboratory
- Cashmere Streamcare Trust
- Predator Free Port Hills
- Charlesworth Wetlands
- McCormacks Bay Wetland restoration
- Whaka-Ora Healthy Harbour
- Blue Cradle Marine Conservation
- Drinkable Rivers
South Canterbury
Tasman Nelson
Adaptation
- Adaptation
- Interactive datamaps
- Our First National Adaptation Plan
- Low flammability plants
- Flood education resources
- Managed retreat
- Adaptation exemplar: Tūhaitara Coastal Park
- Coastal Adaptation: What does success look like
- Managing climate anxiety
- Degrowth vs Green Growth
- Adaptive tools: water infrastructure compounded by climate change
- ECan: adaptation actions by local authorities
- Future Curious: education resource
- Loss and damage: What happens when climate change destroys lives and cultures?
- Maladaptation: ‘Carbon mining’ short term gain, long term pain
- Maladaptation: Coastal wetlands left high and dry under Ministry proposals
- Innovation
- National Science Challenges (NSC): Innovations for adaptation
- NSC: Adaptation planning – communities
- NSC: Adaptation planning – maraes
- NSC: Embedding adaptation
- NSC: Vision Mātauranga Future Pathways
- NIWA: Serious games as a tool to engage people
- Optimal Adaptation to Uncertain Climate Change
- Zero Hunger Collective
Innovation
- Overview
- Agrivoltaics
- Biocement: bricks grown from microorganisms
- Negative emissions technologies
- Carbon negative concrete
- Enhanced mineral weathering: store carbon in basalt soil fertiliser
- Fungi absorbs 30% of emissions annually
- Hydrogen
- Links below are to other websites_____________
- Algae that cleans waterways & provides energy
- Artificial reefs made from shellfish
- Black flies recycling organic waste
- Carbon Crop: carbon farming assessment
- Carbon negative bio-thermoplastic
- Celllular ag: precision fermentation
- Climate Leaders Coalition NZ
- Creating Azola forests
- Desalination cheaper than tap water
- Dunite: storing carbon in agricultural soils
- EECA: Energy Efficiency Authority
- EmGuard: NZ made biodegradable plant guards
- Environmental Defence Society
- Fungi-based packaging alternatives
- Generation Less
- Living seawalls
- NIWA: climate research
- NZ Lawyers for Climate Action
- Policy & planning: how to avoid maladaptation
- Project Drawdown
- Reducing nitrous oxide in agriculture
- Reducing methane from cows
- Regenerative agriculture: National Science Challenges
- Regenerative agriculture: Quorum Sense
- RethinkX: disruptive technologies
- Transition Engineering: AEMS lab NZ
- Toxic site remediation using plants & fungi
- 100% compostable drink bottles made in NZ
