As the climate crisis deepens, we are becoming more aware of just how badly we have failed to respect our most precious asset: nature. We depend entirely on it for our food, our air, our water and our shelter, and yet, we have been neglecting and exploiting nature for decades, even centuries.
Nature-based solutions (NbS) promise to redress the balance by restoring habitats and ecosystems. In doing so, we can tackle the biodiversity crisis, meet our climate targets, adapt to flood and drought and improve public health and wellbeing, all at comparably low-cost.
One of New Zealand's advantages are the strengths of our natural systems including the primary sector that is at the heart of our traditional economy. But tradition has proved detrimental to the environment and throws into doubt our social license to operate which is why regenerative models agriculture and forestry underpin solutions and enable stewardship of the environment, profitability and positive social outcomes.
Join us for a series of conversations with farmers, foresters, scientists, entrepreneurs and business leaders to explore the opportunities for regeneration in the New Zealand setting, the role of market mechanisms, funding models, soil science, near to nature forestry, urban agriculture and native forests, systems-thinking and more. Enjoy! https://pureadvantage.org/
In this episode, host Vince Heeringa is joined by Dr David Bergin, Prof. Warwick Silvester and Mark Kimberley, the scientists and authors behind the latest O Tātou Ngāhere research paper; Carbon Sequestration by Native Forest: Setting the Record Straight.
The podcast delves into the research, which demonstrates that well-managed planted indigenous forest is better at sequestering carbon than commonly considered, and proposes that the Carbon Look-up Tables for the Emission Trading Scheme should include the option for planted native species as well as regenerating native forest.
The podcast looks at the role this historically significant research plays in supporting the establishment of native forestry at scale in New Zealand, such as that recommended by the Climate Change Commission of 300,000 ha of new native forest by 2035.
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8 Nov 2021
Envisioning the Future (Season 2, Episode 7)
In this closing episode for O Tātou Ngāhere ~ Our Forest, host Vincent Heeringa is joined by an accomplished panel of experts featuring Dame Anne Salmond (https://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/msal020), Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, impact entrepreneur Nathalie Whitaker of Toha Foundry (https://www.toha.nz/), Peter Berg the Chair of Tānes Tree Trust (https://www.tanestrees.org.nz/) and brand entrepreneur and farmer Geoff Ross of Lake Hawea Station (https://lakehaweastation.com/), who is also a trustee for Pure Advantage.
In this dynamic discussion the panelists compare notes on their vision for more native forests in our whenua – for all the benefits they provide.
How much native forestry is enough?
Where should the forests be?
How should native forests be managed?
All these questions and more as we envision the future and place of New Zealand's native forest.
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1 Nov 2021
Making it Happen (Season 2, Episode 6)
In this episode host Vincent Heeringa is joined by a talented group of panelists. Annabell Chartres is a partner at PwC in Auckland, Kevin Prime is a multi-generational farmer in Northand, Waihoroi Shortland is recognised within Māoridom as one of the outstanding Te Reo Māori specialists and Dr. David Hall is a Sr. Lecturer at Auckland's University of Technology and a thought leader in the National climate policy and research space.
The group discuss what policy environment is needed to give landowners the confidence to invest in transition and what role a NZ Emissions Trading Scheme plays, as well as unpacking other investment/finance instruments being developed or available to utilise in the NZ context.
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