We have all heard about climate change and its potential effects. Its impact on the sea levels. The melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves and land ice. The pending local changes to climate that will affect the incidence of storms, droughts and bush fires.

Whether you believe in it or not, increasingly we are all of the view that everyone needs to be aware of the phenomenon and to start the process of being prepared.

Here are the facts:

(from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Synthesis Report 2014)

• Human influence on the climate system is clear and that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are the highest in history.
• Warming of the climate is unequivocal and the atmosphere and ocean have warmed. The amounts of snow and ice have diminished and the sea level has risen.
• The amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are at unprecedented levels in at least the last 800,000 years.

Climate Change and Maori Resources

Taking a long term intergenerational view for effective resource management is important to Maori. Maori resource owners and managers need to know about climate change and its impact on the future environment. The development of strategies is needed to maximise returns to iwi and hapu over the next 50 years and beyond.

This conference focuses on how you, your business, your community and region can start preparing and building resilience for the future. There are many things we can do to mitigate and respond to climate change. Local, regional and national planning is increasingly important but this planning must to take into account policy, business, environmental management, social change, hazard assessment, land use, communities and urban areas and ways to change community behaviour.

Key Conference Themes

• Identifying opportunities arising from climate change
• Climate change and economic growth
• Business opportunities and responses
• Environmental impacts and implications for communities
• Thinking global acting local
• Regional planning and responses

Speakers Include:

• Government ministers (tbc)
• Sector leaders
• Policy makers
• Science and research leaders
• Business leaders
• Regulators
• Planners
• Maori economic development leaders

You will leave the conference well informed, up-to-date and full of new ideas and strategies to take back to your businesses, trusts, incorporations, communities and organisations which are practical and focus on actions you can take now and into the future.

Climate Change 2016
Sustainable economic growth that doesn’t cost the Earth!

Holiday Inn, Tryon Street, Rotorua 9 - 10 March 2016

REGISTRATION: $345 inc GST per person
Secure your registration online at tearawafoma.co.nz or download the registration form below.

SPONSORSHIP: Gold, Silver and Bronze packages are available. Refer to the website tearawafoma.co.nz

ACCOMMODATION: Use our Holiday Inn discounted rate. Book here.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Jeanette Watkins - jacwatkins@xtra.co.nz
or John Gifford - john@giffordconsulting.co.nz

Registration Form

Conference Programme