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.

The goal of this project is to assess whether wetlands in the agricultural landscape receiving nitrogen-rich leachate are a significant source of nitrous oxide emissions in relation to inventory estimates on nitrous oxide emitted from agriculture.

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.

Goal: Improving the confidence in the effectiveness of the nitrification inhibitor DCD as a novel nitrous oxide mitigation technology in a wider range of key dairying soils and as affected by rainfall or irrigation.

The goal of this project is to test the concept that modifications to an existing urine sensor will allow the quantification of urinary nitrogen concentration of individual urination events by grazing sheep. Future use of this tool may then enable quantification of nitrogen load in urine patches which is the precursor of nitrous oxide emissions.

This project aims to design and build automated N2O gas chambers that will be added to the existing automated and mobile gas analysis system to provide a fully automated system for rapid assessment of in-field N2O emissions.

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.

A trend detection study examing frost occurrence in New Zealand in response to feedback from kiwifruit and viticulture industries that frost management is a key tool to adapting to climate change.

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.

A report documenting experimental work and modelling to assess the impact of global change (increased temperature and elevated atmospheric CO2) on the germination and growth of C4 grass species, particularly kikuyu.

This paper focuses on the possible threat that four key pests pose to New Zealand's plantation forestry resource under climate change.

This report identifies a range of impacts arising from a changing climate that affects rural water infrastructure. Climate change will impact on both the performance and long-term operations of irrigation schemes and rural water supply schemes.

This report presents a summary and review of past research on the economic effects of climate on agriculture in New Zealand. These estimated effects are then compared with some new estimates that have been compiled specifically for this report.