Climate change and New Zealand: is it doom or can we hope?

Authors

  • Sir Geoffrey Palmer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v11i4.4564

Keywords:

anthropogenic climate change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), international environmental law, Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC), Kyoto Protocol, Paris Accord, binding targets, Resource Management Act (RMA), Emissions Trading Scheme

Abstract

Climate change is a wickedly difficult problem. It involves a complex matrix of scientific, political, social, economic and ethical considerations. While these many different intellectual perspectives are important, they also pose problems in arriving at appropriate solutions. In order to solve the issue of climate change it is necessary to draw on many academic disciplines. Virtually all the sciences are engaged: biology, chemistry, geology, and physics and atmospheric science, ecology, genetics, mathematics and meteorology; also geography, a discipline that spans both natural and social sciences. 

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Policy Quarterly volume 11 issue 4 2015

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2015-05-01

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Vol. 11 No. 4 (2015): Policy Quarterly

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