Building a carbon-neutral future
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New Zealand needs to minimize potential risks resulting from climate change to protect the health and wellbeing of our people, the multi–billion–dollar earnings from land–based exports and our unique environment. National commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions set by the Kyoto Protocol must be met by 2012, and post–Kyoto emissions targets are expected to be more rigorous and wide–ranging, requiring greater effort to meet intense international scrutiny. Landcare Research is working with organisations across NZ and internationally to develop innovative solutions to reduce carbon footprints.
This portal provides direct access to Landcare Research’s publications, tools and services on: reducing the carbon footprints of businesses, individuals and organisations; developing regional and local carbon profiles and strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and understanding the impacts of climate change on land-based systems.
Online publications and tools
Free of charge online Landcare Research publications and tools
Carbon neutral responses
A range of programmes, tools and research focused on measuring, reducing and offsetting carbon emissions for businesses, government agencies and households.- Case studies of carboNZero certified businesses.
- EBEX21® programme also enable businesses and landowners to measure, manage and mitigate CO2 emissions.
- Carbon calculator A tool for users to examine the potential viability of “carbon farming.”
- Maori perspectives on Kyoto policy: Interim results – Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the terrestrial biosphere
. Landcare Research Report LC0203/084, November 2003.
Services
Landcare Research consultancy services- carboNZero certification programme
The carboNZero programme encourages and supports organisations and businesses, products and services, conferences and events, travel and tourism, and households and individuals to minimise their climate change impacts by providing the tools for them to measure, manage and mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. - Climate change adaptation and mitigation
Our Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation research is designed identify and develop tools and methods for greenhouse gas emissions measurement, management and reporting for different business sectors. - Socio-economic implications of adaptation to global change
Development of knowledge, networks and strategies to embed mitigation and adaptation practices into regional and national economic and sustainable development initiatives. - Carbon exchange and inventory
Development of least–cost methods to quantify and forecast sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2) and the effects of land–use change and management on land–atmosphere CO2 exchange at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Contacts
carboNZero programme & EBEX21® |
Carbon exchange and inventory |
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Social-economic implications of climate change |
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Research programmes
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the terrestrial biosphere
New Zealand's largest research programme focusing on inventory, mitigation and adaptation of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) from land-based sources and sinks including soils, pastoral farming, plantation forestry and indigenous shrubland. - Predicting land to ocean response to global change
This programme aims to improve understanding of the processes that transfer sediment, nutrients and carbon from land to ocean. Research will provide new knowledge to strengthen the ability to predict and mitigate the effects of changing climate and land use on those transfers, and to underpin an assessment of terrestrial and marine greenhouse gas emissions. - Outline of all of Landcare Research’s current research programmes including FRST funded programmes.