Review of sectoral climate change scenarios - Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment

As part of the first round of Climate Related Disclosures, 13 key sectors across Aotearoa New Zealand have produced climate scenarios. This was the largest consistent and coordinated exercise in futures thinking completed across Aotearoa New Zealand to date, and comprises an impressive body of work.

Climate change is likely to be one of the biggest challenges that our society faces in the coming decades. How big that challenge is depends largely on how quickly we, as a society, act. Many industries will need to change how they operate, both to reduce emissions and to adapt to a changing climate. The sectoral climate scenarios reviewed in this report cover all these issues.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment is currently undertaking a separate futures thinking exercise as part of the next phase of the work programme on “Resource flows and waste generation.