EBCRN is focussed on the need to act now to both mitigate the causes of accelerating climate change as well as prepare for the impact on our community. You can find out more about Eastbourne and the Network here. If you have climate related events, resources, requests, suggestions or any other information you would like to share please send it to us.
Eastern Bays Climate Response Network on Facebook. Feel free to comment or post on topics related to the goals of this group on the Facebook page.
Public opening of the first completed section of Tupua Horo Nuku in Mā-koromiko this Sunday 19 November, starting at 10:00am at Days Bay.
The Climate Change and Sustainability Committee agenda for 14 November at 2.00 pm is available to view via the following link:
Learning from each other: what are the prospects for environmental policy mobility between Wales and New Zealand? A seminar by Gareth Enticott and Iain White *ONLINE*
Navigating choppy waters: understanding perceptions of risk and uncertainty in marine management. A webinar by Shaun Awatere, Paula Blackett and Joanne Ellis *ONLINE*
Rescuing a cross-party inquiry into ‘humanity’s most costly challenge’
This provides a very revealing background to the decision to set up a parliamentary Environment Committee into Climate Adaptation - really a last effort by James Shaw to lock in some kind of examination into adaptation, given that the proposed Adaptation Bill never got to be introduced before the change of government. We'll see how that all plays out!
The Climate Science Breakthrough : an urgent and ongoing project to help climate science breakthrough to many more people - and unlock action.
The “Protect/Accommodate/Retreat/Avoid” or “PARA” framework to categorize and examine flood disaster risk reduction approaches used to build climate change resilience.
Resilience to Nature's Challenges
GNS Science hosts this National Science Challenge programme, whose purpose is to accelerate our resilience to natural hazards.
Overview
This is one of 11 National Science Challenges set up by government to tackle the big science questions facing Aotearoa New Zealand. We bring together physical science, mātauranga Māori, social science, and engineering research to develop policies and tools that reduce the social and economic impacts of future natural hazard events.
The Resilience Challenge is a formal collaboration between thirteen partner organizations. The programme is hosted by GNS Science, and other partner organisations host individual research programmes and projects.
Resilience Challenge features 10 research programmes focused around two major themes:
Understanding Hazard & Risk
Earthquake & Tsunami
Volcanoes
Coastal Hazards
Weather & Wildfire
Multihazard Risk
Accelerating Resilience
Rural Communities
Urban Communities
Built Environments
Whanake te Kura i Tawhiti Nui
Resilience, Policy & Governance
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