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Experts and web conferences

Web conferences

Fiona and Davina answered the following questions from students in web conference 1:

  1. What action do we have to take to help our rivers' ecosystems?
  2. How does pollution affect the weather patterns?
  3. How can we encourage people to get connected with nature?
  4. How did climate change not get noticed as a major problem by governments until recently?
  5. Why and how is agriculture such a big polluter?
  6. Why do we as children need to make change if we've done nothing wrong?
  7. How has renewable energy changed over time?
  8. How does climate affect the environment?
  9. Is landscape a factor in climates of different areas?

CORE Education · LEARNZ Our changing climate NZ podcast 1 of 2

Fiona and Justin answered the following questions from students in web conference 2:

  1. When you use water to generate power and you take it through the Coleridge penstocks and Power Station doesn’t that affect the water quality?
  2. How can we spread awareness to the people who don’t know or believe that climate change is real?
  3. Is there any way to not only stop climate change but to reverse it?
  4. With the rising sea levels and the risk of erosion, where would they have to prioritize the coastal protection levels?
  5. Why do people worry about 1℃ or 2℃ in temperature change when that's really not that much and we deal with that much change every day?
  6. In New Zealand what is the largest cause of global warming or climate change?
  7. What do you say to people who agree there is global warming and climate change but say people have not caused it?
  8. When will climate change affect people in a bad way?

CORE Education · LEARNZ Our changing climate NZ podcast 2 of 2

Meet the experts

Meet Fiona: Chief scientist at Environment Canterbury (ECAN)

Meet Davina: Science team senior leader at ECAN

Meet Mananui: Regional Leader - Pou Mātai Kō ECAN

Meet Duncan: Freshwater ecologist

Meet Ben: High country farmer

Meet Erana: Mana Whenua member of Environment Canterbury Youth Rōpū