Atmospheric analysis

Adapting to climate change is dynamic and uncertain. This step provides guidance on how you can keep your analysis, decisions and responses relevant and up-to-date in a continually changing environment.

This step will help you identify options for action, bearing in mind that often decisions have to be made with limited information.

In this step you will identify your climate change risks, compare them to other (non-climate) risks affecting you face and piroritise your responses.

This step helps you assess your resilience to current climate risk.

This step helps you understand risk, climate and adaptation, as well as reasons to adapt.

A Tauranga school student has solved a crucial problem for dog owners in the face of a ban on plastic bags.

A project to restore a stream catchment in Kaikōura—damaged in the 2016 earthquake—is being described as inspirational by NIWA scientists.

What do taewa Māori (Māori potatoes) and Swiss cheese have in common? For NIWA social scientist Stephen FitzHerbert it’s much more than a tasty snack.

Cathy Kilroy is quick to admit she’s a person who doesn’t like throwing anything away.

NIWA is helping young people get involved in air quality research. With funding from Unlocking Curious Minds children from Alexandra Primary School are becoming junior scientists and learning about air quality in their town.

A senior NIWA scientist is concerned many councils are having difficulty “getting off the starting blocks” when it comes to planning for coastal climate change.