Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change

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Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change

• Detail on Pillars 1, 3 and 4

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Plan of Action

• Government wants a single Plan of Action covering
  climate change and the land management sectors
  (agriculture, horticulture and forestry
• Climate change measures are a key component of
  sustainable land management many actions will
  be mutually supportive
• It is proposed that the Plan of Action will
  comprise 4 Pillars
• Pillar 1 Adapting to Climate Change
• Pillar 2 Reducing Emissions and Enhancing Sinks
• Pillar 3 Capitalising on Business Opportunities
• Pillar 4 Working Together

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Climate change in New Zealand

• Increasing frequency of severe climatic events
  droughts, floods, storms, wind
• Wetter in west, drier in east
• Sea-level rise
• Increased risk of forest fires
• Changing growing seasons and regions
• Biosecurity risks
• Market issues
• In New Zealand
• Drought costs in 1997/98 estimated at 1 billion
• Lower North Island floods in 2004 estimated at
  over 300 million

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Pillar 1 Adapting to climate change

• How can Government and the sector work together
  to help land managers adapt to changes in the
  climate?
• research
• information dissemination and technology transfer
• improved planning
• infrastructure (e.g. flood works, water storage,
  irrigation)
• forest establishment and catchment management.
• What processes do we need to put in place to
  enable government and the sector to work together
  on adaptation?

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Pillar 3 Business opportunities

• Many opportunities including
• technologies to reduce methane and nitrous oxide
  
• low energy systems and products (biomaterials)
• renewable energy carbon farming advisory
  services
• marketing initiatives international
  opportunities e.g. Clean Development Mechanism.
• Response could include
• identifying specific initiatives (e.g. PFSI)
• improving commercialisation of research
• creating markets resourcing research and
  development
• raising public awareness considering role of
  regulation and procurement policies
• How can we work together to capitalise on
  business opportunities?

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Pillar 4 Working together

• Climate Change isnt going away
• We need to find ways to work together in the
  future
• Build on the work of other initiatives
• Post 2012
• Strategic advice on climate change
• Government wants enduring and constructive
  relationships
• What process do you think we should put in place?