The highly anticipated Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) just announced by the New Zealand Government has been welcomed by the Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects.
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Professor Richard Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, professor and chair of landscape architecture, and co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Weller will be presenting virtually at the 2022 NZILA Firth Conference.
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New Zealanders can now see how sea level rises will affect them, with the release of special maps by NZ SeaRise, a research programme funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
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It could be weeks before conservationists know how significant the biodiversity loss is at Awarua-Waituna wetland, as fire continues to destroy the area.
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A major UN report on climate adaptation calls for indigenous knowledge and science to be brought together to help secure a liveable future.
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Wellington’s climate adaptation planning project Digital Twin has won global recognition and a big funding boost after being named a winner in the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge.
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The hotly contested Three Waters reform could be an opportunity for landscape architects to take the lead in designing a new green stormwater infrastructure.
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Following a recent storm surge in Wellington, some media coverage expressed surprise that 30cm of sea-level rise – an unavoidable amount projected to happen by the middle of this century – would turn a one-in-100-year coastal flood into an annual event.
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The United States Government has approved the country’s largest commercial offshore wind farm, 24 km off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
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The NZILA has welcomed aspects of the just-released Climate Change Commission's final advice to the government.
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Lake Hawea Station is the first farm in New Zealand to be certified carbon positive by environmental certifications provider Toitū.
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Environmentalists are warning New Zealand needs to save its wetlands to achieve its climate goals. They say peat wetlands are more powerful than tropical forests at absorbing carbon, and our Government needs to devise a plan to protect and recharge them.
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The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has added to its online exhibition which demonstrate how landscape architects are designing smart solutions to climate impacts.
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Heatherwick Studio, along with 20-member team EPX2, have developed The Cove for San Francisco.
It’s an essential upgrade of Piers 30-32 at the Southern end of the Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District, and is designed to protect against the effects of climate change.
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From today (Monday February 1) New Zealanders can have their say on the long awaited draft package of advice to the government from the Climate Change Commission.
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New Zealand has joined 32 other countries in declaring a climate emergency. At the same time the Government has promised all its departments and ministries will be carbon neutral by 2025.
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Vienna’s hit on a cultural way of cutting carbon emissions - rewarding car-free travel with free tickets to museums and concerts.
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Even if your holiday took you off grid over the last few weeks, chances are you’d have been struck by the orange haze that cloaked swathes of New Zealand as smoke from the horrific bushfires in Australia drifted 2,000km across the Tasman Sea.
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On the eve of a year in which nations are due to strengthen their Paris climate pledges, a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report warns that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by 7.6 per cent each year between 2020 and 2030, the world will miss the opportunity to get on track towards the 1.5°C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.
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Australia is at the beginning of what promises to be a “catastrophic” fire season with no “meaningful reprieve” in sight, according to NSW’s Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons.
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