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New Zealand Emissions Trading System (Motu page) |
Jim Renwick |
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Leader of research in soil and ecosystem carbon dioxide exchanges with the atmosphere at GNS. Current research focus is modelling greenhouse gas emissions and sinks at scales ranging from sites to national, and incorporating this information in economic models. Expert Reviewer for the IPCC Working Group III Fourth Assessment Report. |
Leader of NIWA’s research on adaptation to climate variability and change. Regional climate modelling, economic impacts of climate variability, dynamics of the climate system. Lead author for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
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Suzie Greenhalgh |
Adolf Stroombergen |
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(PhD Resource Economics) |
(PhD Economics) |
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From March 2007, Leader of Landcare Research's policy analysis relating to climate change. Specializes in environmental issues, particularly water quality and climate change, nutrient trading, hypoxia, the Kyoto Protocol, and greenhouse gas project accounting. |
Chief Economist, Infometrics. Specialises in economic modelling, econometrics and public policy research in areas such as education, taxation, savings and retirement, energy, trade and transport. Expert Reviewer for the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report |
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David Whitehead |
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(PhD Economics) |
(PhD Environmental Biophysics) |
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| Director and Senior Fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. Current research work empirically and theoretically investigates domestic and international emissions trading issues with special emphasis on land use and climate change in both the tropics and New Zealand and domestic carbon permit market design. | Leader of Global Change Processes research at Landcare Research investigating biophysical regulation and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from forest and agricultural systems. Specialist in measuring and modelling carbon and water exchange in terrestrial ecosystems. | ||||
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Paul Newton |
David Wratt |
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(PhD Atmospheric Physics) |
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Leader of the AgResearch programme on impacts and adaptation of the pastoral sector to global change. Current experimental and modelling research is to quantify the effects of global change for ecosystem services provided by pastoral ecosystems and to devise and test adaptive strategies. Expertise in plant-soil-animal interactions. |
Leader of the National Climate Centre, NIWA. Specialises in climate change science, scenarios, impacts, risk management, and adaptation. Member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, leader of projects to provide guidance to local government on impacts and adaptation. |
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