What is climate change and how does it affect us? Here you’ll find resources that cover anthropogenic climate change and how you can respond.
Climate Change 101: An introductory guide
What is climate change? How did this happen? What are greenhouse gases, sequestration and the predicted impacts of climate change for Aotearoa?
Read Climate Change 101: An introductory guide
Our Position
Climate change is a reality – and as a profession, we need to unite and act. Why? Because many solutions require engineering, re-engineering or rethinking our engineered environment. To lead, we must understand the issues, develop collective solutions, work in partnership with Māori and take action to ensure our professional work engineers better lives for the people of Aotearoa.
Engineering a Better New Zealand: Cleaner energy
In 2018, we published a report looking at opportunities for meaningful, well-engineered change that will make a difference to our greenhouse gas emissions and our fight against climate change.
Read the Cleaner energy report
New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions
How is New Zealand tracking towards our 2050 net zero emissions target? The Ministry for the Environment is tracking our progress and how this relates to international and domestic targets.
Aotearoa New Zealand climate change projections guidance: Interpreting the latest IPCC WG1 report findings
This report was prepared for the Ministry for the Environment by a consortium of scientists from Bodeker Scientific Ltd, NIWA, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington. It interprets information relevant to Aotearoa New Zealand from the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on ‘The Physical Science Basis’ that was published in August 2021.
