Land use change

We need to change the way we use our land if we are to hold the line on environmental quality, let alone improve it.

How do we respond to the environmental challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and water quality while looking after the economic, social and cultural life of our regions?

By the second half of the century, carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion needs to be eliminated, and methane and nitrous oxide from agriculture need to be reduced. How that is done will have long-lasting impacts on New Zealand's landscape, communities and our wider environment. 

How much forestry would be needed to offset warming from agricultural methane?

This animation explores some of the concepts introduced in Farms, forests and fossil fuels: The next great landscape transformation?, and looks at how policy decisions could affect Aotearoa New Zealand's landscapes.

This report explores a different approach to framing New Zealand’s long-term climate change targets and policies, and what that could mean for our landscapes.