Environmental indicators

Listed below are the environmental indicators incorporated in this report, including nine updated indicators in bold:

  • Annual glacier ice volumes
  • Atmospheric ozone
  • Coastal sea-level rise
  • Drought
  • El Niño Southern Oscillation
  • Frost and growing degree days
  • Extreme rainfall
  • Extreme wind
  • Indigenous land cover
  • Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
  • Livestock numbers
  • New Zealand’s greenhouse gas concentrations
  • Nitrogen dioxide concentrations
  • Ocean acidification
  • Predicted pre-human land vegetation
  • Rainfall
  • Sea surface temperature
  • Southern Annular Mode
  • Temperature
  • Wetland area
  • Wildfire risk.