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Causes
- What causes Earth’s climate to change?
- Climate forcings & Earth’s energy budget
- Brief history of climate change: who knew what, when
- Milankovitch Cycles
- Land use
- Greenhouse gases
- Carbon dioxide
- Methane
- Nitrous oxide
- Water vapour & clouds
- Man-made industrial chemicals
- Ozone
- Hydrogen
- Sunspots & solar activity
- Volcanoes
- Plate tectonics
- Ocean currents
- Early life
- Rocks from space
- How we know about past climates
- How to start an Ice Age
Effects
- Planetary Boundaries & Tipping Points
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- Extreme weather & event attribution
- Feedback effects of warming
- ENSO: El Niño & La Niña Copy Copy
- ENSO: El Niño & La Niña
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- Antarctica melting
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- Antarctic sea ice disappearing Copy Copy
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- Antarctic sea ice disappearing
- Arctic sea ice disappearing Copy Copy
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- Arctic sea ice disappearing
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- Greenland melting
- Ocean currents changing
- Oceans warming
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- Ocean acidification
- Melting permafrost & burning ice
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- New Zealand’s disappearing glaciers
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- Seasons changing Copy
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- Seasons changing
- Wildfires increasing
- How we know about past climates: proxy data Copy
- How we know about past climates: proxy data Copy Copy
- How we know about past climates: proxy data
Impacts
- Irreversible tipping points
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- Feedback effects
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- How hot could it get?
- ENSO: El Niño & La Niña Copy Copy
- ENSO: El Niño & La Niña
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- Aotearoa’s changing climate
- – The forecast for Canterbury
- Rising sea levels
- – Canterbury sea levels
- Floods bigger & more often
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- Ocean heating
- Ocean acidfication
- Ocean currents changing
- Wildfires bigger & more often
- Food insecurity
- Losing our glaciers Copy Copy
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- Losing our glaciers
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- Animal & plants moving or dying
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- Biodiversity vanishing
- Broken life-support systems
- More diseases and pandemics
- What will it cost us?
- Arctic ice loss impacts on NZ
- Antarctic sea ice loss impacts NZ
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Response
- What is being done?
- Restoring our ecosystems
- 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
- – Via enhanced rock weathering
- – Store CO2 in trees…but mostly pines!
- – Store CO2 underground
- – Store CO2 in the ocean
- – Store CO2 in concrete
- Retreat from coasts and rivers
- Managing climate anxiety
Native Ecosytems
- 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!
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Adaptation
- Adaptation
- Interactive datamaps
- Adaptation exemplar: Tūhaitara Coastal Park
- Managed retreat
- Maladaptation: Coastal wetlands left high and dry under Ministry proposals
- Maladaptation: ‘Carbon mining’ short term gain, long term pain
- OTHER WEBSITES:
- National Climate Change Risk Assessment: 2026
- First National Adaptation Plan: 2022
- Climate Adaptation Platform
- NIWA: Serious games as a tool to engage people
- National Science Challenges (NSC): Innovations for adaptation
- NSC: Adaptation planning – communities
- Coastal Adaptation: What does success look like
- Environment Defence Society
- Lawyers for Climate Action
- Solutions: Project Drawdown
- Future Curious: education resource
- Adaptive tools: water infrastructure
- Low flammability plants
- Loss and damage: What happens when climate change destroys lives and cultures?
- Urban Intelligence
- Zero Hunger Collective
- NSC: Adaptation planning – maraes
- NSC: Embedding adaptation
- NSC: Vision Mātauranga Future Pathways
- ECan: adaptation actions by local authorities
- Optimal Adaptation to Uncertain Climate Change
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
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- OTHER WEBSITES:
- Algae that cleans waterways & provides energy
- Artificial reefs made from shellfish
- Aspiring Minerals
- Black flies recycling organic waste
- Carbon Crop: carbon farming assessment
- Carbon negative bio-thermoplastic
- Celllular agriculture: 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
- Generation Less
- Land Scanner
- 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
Ōtautahi Christchurch
- Christchurch Envirohub
- 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
