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Chapter 2: The evidence
- Dangerous tipping points
- Antarctica
- Greenland
- Arctic sea ice
- Melting permafrost & burning ice
- Ocean currents inc. El Niño/La Niña
- Animals and plants are moving & dying
- New Zealand’s disappearing glaciers
- Glacial or Ice Age…who cares?
- How to start an Ice Age!
- How we know about past climates: proxy data
- How we know if extreme weather is due to climate change
- IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Back to: nuts & bolts of climate change
Chapter 3: The impacts
- What will it cost us?
- Floods : bigger and more often
- How hot could it get?
- New Zealand’s changing climate
- Canterbury’s changing climate
- More wildfires, less snow and ice
- More pandemics
- We’re losing our critical life-support systems
- Vanishing biodiversity
- Increasingly acidic oceans
- Rising sea levels
- Canterbury sea levels : case studies
- Marine & lake heat waves
- Canterbury climate risk screening
- Losing your insurance?
- Back to: nuts & bolts of climate change
Chapter 4: The Response
- A short history of climate change: who knew what, when
- Is New Zealand doing enough?
- How much time do we have?
- Plant trees…but mostly pines
- Native ecosystems are climate superheroes
- Negative emissions technology
- Predicting the future climate: how climate models work
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: IPCC
- The Paris Agreement
- New Zealand policies and strategies
- Nationally Determined Contributions : NDCs
- The emissions trading scheme : ETS
- The ‘carbon free’ economy
- The NZ Climate Change Commission
- Back to: nuts & bolts of climate change
Chapter 5: Our Ecosystems
- Our natural heritage
- Our native ecosystems are climate superheroes
- The villains: predators & pests
- Our soils: carbon super-sponges
- Our forests
- Our rivers & lakes
- Our wetlands
- Our dunes & coastal wetlands
- Our estuaries
- The ocean
- Blue carbon
- Ecosystem services: free stuff from nature
- Plants and animals are on the move!
- The cost of losing biodiversity
- Back to Nature-based solutions
Chapter 7: Innovation
- Start here
- Negative emissions technology
- Carbon negative concrete
- Biocement : bricks grown from microorganisms
- Lawyers for Climate Action
- EmGuard : NZ made biodegradable plant guards
- 100% compostable drink bottles made in NZ
- Carbon negative bio-thermoplastic
- Regenerative agriculture : Quorum Sense
- Regenerative agriculture : National Science Challenges
- Adaptation : National Science Challenges
- How to avoid maladaptation
- NIWA : climate research
- Landcare Research : greenhouse gases
- Govt. investment in decarbonising industry : GIDI
- Transition Engineering : AEMS lab NZ
- Carbon Crop : carbon farming assessment
- Callaghan Innovation : clean tech
- Storing CO2 in our rocks
- Reducing nitrous oxide in agriculture
- Generation Less
- Creating Azola forests
- Blue carbon: seaweed
- Depave – Community Storm Water Management using native plants
- FRENZ eggs: Feeding mussel waste to chickens