Climate change adaptation & mitigation

Vision

To enable creation of multi-functional landscapes in Aotearoa New Zealand where climate change mitigation and adaptation are synergistic and deliver a range of other ecosystem services.

Strategic goals

Providing national research leadership for:

measurement of carbon storage and cycling in soils and indigenous vegetation.
simultaneous measurement and modelling of all greenhouse gas emissions/removals from terrestrial ecosystems.
integrated modelling to determine spatial configurations of land-use and management that will lead to climate-smart landscapes.
Mātauranga Māori informed advice on climate change adaptation and mitigation to lead government agencies and hapū/iwi.

Key outcomes

Greenhouse gas emissions and removals are managed to mitigate climate change.
Communities and regulators have adaptation pathways for climate change.
Hapū and iwi act confidently as kaitiaki of their whenua using science and mātauranga Māori.