Resources
Please see below for a collection of useful resources which provide further information, insight, guidance and tools.
Climate Change in Aotearoa New Zealand
Statistics NZ: Our Atmosphere & Climate
Our changing climate is explored in five chapters that show how, why, and what is happening to our climate and how the changing climate is beginning to affect the things we care about.
Ministry for the Environment Climate scenarios list
The existing climate scenarios presented in this list are those commonly applied or used as the ‘building blocks’ for scenario development in the New Zealand context.
Ministry for the Environment: Aotearoa New Zealand Climate Change Projections
Projections show how the climate change could change in Aotearoa New Zealand over the rest of this century.
Open data, visualisations and analysis to help policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders gather insights on New Zealand's climate progress
Deep South National Science Challenge
Science programme on a mission is to enable New Zealanders to adapt, manage risk, and thrive in a changing climate
Governance
The Climate Governance Initiative empowers board directors on every continent to take climate action by enhancing their knowledge and skills in climate governance.
Systems Innovation & Transformation
The Good Shift: Problem framing canvas
Handbook on organising for systems innovation at scale.
Griffith University: Challenge-led Innovation
Handbook on organising for systems innovation at scale.
Europe's leading climate innovation agency and community.
Global Association for Transition Engineering
Transition Engineers design and carry out the projects of change that lead to the future we want. They work from a systems perspective to strategically plan changes to today's engineered systems that downshift the fossil energy they require.
The Startup: How Futurists Cope with Uncertainty
Article by Amy Webb, outlining a s simple tool you can use to see plausible future states early
Risk Management
World Economic Forum: Global Risk Report (2025)
The 20th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report reveals an increasingly fractured global landscape, where escalating geopolitical, environmental, societal and technological challenges threaten stability and progress.
New Zealand's National Climate Change Risk Assessment (2020)
Report on the findings of New Zealand’s first National Climate Change Risk Assessment, which gives a national picture of the risks faced from climate change, and identifies the most significant risks to help us prioritise action.
New Zealand's National Climate Adaptation Framework
The Framework sets out the Government's approach to prepare for the rising risks from natural hazards, such as floods or storms.
Climate Compass: A Climate Risk Management Framework for Commonwealth Agencies (2018)
A framework designed to help Australian public servants manage the risks from the changing climate to policies, programs and asset management. Builds on the best climate change adaptation research and science over the past decade. Climate Compass reflects the current leading practice in guidance for climate risk management and planning for long-term, uncertain, pervasive change.
Emissions Measurement, Reporting & Reduction
Ministry for the Environment: NZ's Greenhouse Gas Inventory
The official annual estimate of all human-generated greenhouse gas emissions and removals that have occurred in New Zealand since 1990.
Ministry for the Environment: Measuring, reporting and offsetting greenhouse gas emissions
Quick and detailed guidance to help New Zealand organisations measure and report their greenhouse gas emissions. It also has guidance on how to credibly and robustly offset greenhouse gas emissions
Ministry for the Environment: Marginal Abatement Cost Curves Analysis for New Zealand (2020)
Report describing progress and stage 1 results of work to develop marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) analysis for New Zealand.
Daily reporting of NZ's carbon (NZU) prices