Over 260 agricultural climate change focused scientists, policy makers, farmers and industry representatives made the trip to the Palmerston North Convention Centre to attend the 2019 Agricultural Climate Change Conference. The two days provided an excellent opportunity to reflect on the role that NZ can play in meeting the challenges of climate change.
 
The two days included 20 presentations from NZ experts in their fields. Time was also set aside for panel discussions and questions from the floor 
 
Programme for the two day NZACCC conference:  (0.67MB)
 
Topics and speakers as follows:
  



DAY 1:
 
 


Title
 Speaker
 PDF


General introduction to the challenges raised by climate change
John Roche (MPI) 
(5.97MB)


What are NZ's current emissions and what is the future forecast? How are we tracking?
Andrea Brandon (MFE)
(2.08MB) 


How will agriculture in NZ be impacted by climate change? 
Andrew Tait (NIWA)
 (2.87MB)


Attitudes to climate change - Nielsen survey results 2009-2019
Wendy Stockwell (Nielsen)
(2.79MB)


Adaptation - Climate Change Adaptation Technical Working Group conclusions
Judy Lawrence (VUW)
(0.99MB)