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A radically different world: preparing for climate change

6 Aug 2024


Media release | In his new book, A Radically Different World: Preparing for Climate Change, Jonathan Boston underscores a critical need for societies to supplement urgent measures to mitigate climate change with robust adaptation strategies.

"Earlier this century I hoped that humanity – through multiple endeavours globally, nationally, regionally and locally – would rise to the challenge and rapidly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, bequeathing a relatively safe and hospitable planet to future generations.’

 

But in 2024 these emissions are still rising. 

 

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions remains crucial, but Professor Boston argues that the escalating impacts of climate change make adaptation unavoidable. ‘Climate change is a game changer. Among many other things, it will increasingly determine where people can live. Indeed, it will render many places around the world unliveable,’ he writes. Severe storms, wild fires, rising sea-levels and floods are now altering our world, globally and locally.

 

The book addresses the adaptation challenges ahead, assessing the impact on communities, the necessity for robust relocation policies, and the development of a fair and effective compensation scheme for residential property losses. There is also the troubling prospects for property insurance. ‘Property owners in vulnerable locations are facing the unenviable question: will insurance remain available and affordable? If not, what then?’

 

Jonathan Boston, an Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington, brings extensive expertise to these pressing issues. With a career dedicated to researching and confronting major issues for Aotearoa, including climate change, child poverty, governance and welfare state design, he brings insights that are both profound and practical.

 

A Radically Different World is a call to action. It asks us ‘to imagine and prepare for a different world – a world where the longstanding assumptions of spatial, geographical and physical permanence must inevitably yield under the increasing impacts of climate change to an acceptance of a more dynamic and transitory sense of “place”.’

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Media release | Local Government New Zealand is welcoming the Government’s new National Adaptation Framework, while cautioning that councils will struggle to meet its new expectations without additional funding tools.

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Unlocking the national potential of flexible energy use through residential appliances – EECA calling for submissions

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Media release | EECA is asking for feedback from the energy sector on a newly published green paper about unlocking the potential of demand flexibility through end-use products, such as appliances, used in New Zealand homes.

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Media release | Solar farm developer, Lightyears, has refinanced with Australian renewables lender, Infradebt, to take their portfolio of solar farms to 27MW, split across five farms. Three farms are already operational and two more are under construction.

Te Kāhu Pōkere prepare to take flight for COP30

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Media release | With just weeks until they depart for Brazil, Te Kāhu Pōkere – the first iwi-mandated Māori youth delegation to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference – will gather for their final wānanga in Pōneke next week.

European Union invests into groundbreaking Christchurch environmental projects

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Media release – Christchurch City Council | Two Christchurch City Council restoration projects in the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor have been selected to partner in a significant European Union environmental initiative.

Climate change could strain GP access, research warns

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Media release - University of Canterbury | New UC research shows the serious effects that climate change could have on New Zealand’s health system, making it even harder for people to see a GP.

Bottom trawling a triple threat to marine environments - new report

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Media release | Greenpeace is calling for urgent action to restrict bottom trawling after a new government report highlights the compounding effects this destructive fishing method has on climate change, habitat degradation and biodiversity loss.

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