Latest International Panel for Climate Change report released
The report, agreed to by 195 countries, includes a whole chapter dedicated to Australia and New Zealand.
Specific impacts for Aotearoa New Zealand include:
- more rain
- clean ice glacier retreat
- more droughts and extreme fire weather
- increased rainfall intensity
- more severe cyclones.
Read the report: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability [IPCC website]
Read Minister of Climate Change James Shaw’s media release: Climate adaptation is crucial but emissions must still come down [Beehive website]
Find out about What the Government is doing on climate change