Learn about Climate Change

In a nutshell

The climate is in crisis and time is running out. There is no Planet B. The Copenhagen climate summit in 2009 may have failed, but world leaders still have a chance to secure a global deal to save the climate. We must not let them fail again. To help progress a fair, ambitious and legally binding deal, New Zealand needs to adopt a 40% by 2020 emission reduction target.

The science of climate change and global warming

The massive and rapid change to our climate that we are now seeing is like nothing humankind has seen before. Consequently, the science around it has traditionally been cautious and careful in reaching consensus.

The impacts of climate change and global warming

Disturbing new developments

Melting Icecaps
There has been dramatic loss of ice in both the Arctic and in Antarctica. The Arctic icecap has entered what's been called a 'death spiral' and for the first time in human history, you can take a ship around the North Pole.

Global campaign for Climate Action

Tck tck tck ..... Climate change is putting life on earth in peril. There is still time to build a greener, safer world. But thanks to the failure of Copenhagen, the clock is ticking even louder.

Take action now and Sign On to ask Prime Minister John Key to Sign On to a 40 per cent emissions reduction target by 2020. This is what scientists say developed countries like New Zealand must do to help the world avoid catastrophe, and will help secure a global climate deal.

The economics of climate change

Let's not kiss global prosperity goodbye by ignoring climate change.

Climate change waits for no one

From the outcome of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, you’d think we had all the time in the world to deal with climate change. Unfortunately, just because global leaders failed to agree on a treaty to reduce the world’s emissions, climate change is not slowing or stopping. It is only going to get worse, and fast.

Copenhagen failed. What happens now?

The UN climate summit at Copenhagen in December 2009 was tipped as one of the most important meetings of our time. 

Tens of thousands of delegates, leaders, protestors, interest groups converged in Copenhagen - the vast majority convinced of the need for a binding global deal to reduce emissions. So how is it that the summit so miserably failed to produce one?

There was a lot of talking in Copenhagen, but very little listening. Many demands were made, but few concessions. Domestic priorities and personal political survival won out.
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