The objective of this study is to quantify the risk posed by wind damage to
planted forests in New Zealand and to investigate different options that owners of
forests registered under the Emissions Trading Scheme can use to manage this risk.

This report focuses on the identification and analysis of voluntary carbon market opportunities for agriculture and forestry sectors in New Zealand given current rules and New Zealand's policy settings and implications for these opportunities under future scenarios. Three key research activities are: creating an inventory of opportunities; assessing these opportunities in a global market context; and suggesting ways in which MAF may best guide these opportunities.

This report provides an initial assessment of the current state of awareness of and anticipated response to the proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS) and associated afforestation policies among pastoral farmers in New Zealand.

The goal of this research is to identify key risks for forest managers in New Zealand for participation in a domestic ETS, to discuss the effect of these risks on viability of forestry businesses, and to assess management strategies to deal with these risks.

This study looks at likely impacts of assumed values of climate change on plantation productivity, focusing on the relationships between climate and forest productivity.

This project explores the accounting systems for forests and their products. It examines guidance on forestry, national greenhouse gas inventories and accounting systems under the Kyoto Protocol and raises a number of issues.

Research and analysis to underpin and support climate change policy implementation, forest management decision-making and future policy development. Build future capacity by having final year BForSc students carry out basic analysis as Management Case Studies.

The objective of this report is to identify how New Zealand planted forest
management could change to effectively manage carbon sequestration and
carbon-price risk. This study involved evaluating existing knowledge in a literature review, and carrying out a comprehensive stand and estate-level modelling exercise. Results were used to identify core knowledge gaps and provide a research plan for addressing these gaps.

The objective of this research was to develop datasets for New Zealand building materials for use in research, policy analysis and building code development.

The goal of this research is developing a theoretically robust but practically applicable methodology for valuing forests and forest land in New Zealand in the presence of carbon pricing.

This report presents the results of a MAF-commissioned feasibility study of voluntary greenhouse gas reporting of agricultural emissions. Voluntary greenhouse gas reporting (VGGR) is the voluntary monitoring and reporting of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions at the enterprise (farm) level.

The Ministry for Primary Industries asked climate researchers to consider what New Zealand might look like in 2100 – and the possible consequences for the country’s primary producers – should we indeed see global warming of around 4oC compared to pre-industrial times (c. 1750).

The Ministry for Primary Industries asked climate researchers to consider what New Zealand might look like in 2100 – and the possible consequences for the country’s primary producers – should we indeed see global warming of around 4oC compared to pre-industrial times (c. 1750).

The Ministry for Primary Industries asked climate researchers to consider what New Zealand might look like in 2100 – and the possible consequences for the country’s primary producers – should we indeed see global warming of around 4oC compared to pre-industrial times (c. 1750).

A paper discussing biocontrol systems as a mainstream pest management tool for the productive and environmental sectors in the light of adapting to changing climate.

This study provides expert opinion and case study examples of the likely responses of biological control agents and systems to key climate change threats with a focus on the impact on the productive part of the land-based sectors.