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Strategic assessment of the impacts of climate change on the Waikato region

TR 2011/37
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Report: TR 2011/37

Author: Y Li, L Storey, W Ye and JF Bornman (University of Waikato)

Abstract

Climate change will modify average climate and climate variability, thereby modifying the frequency and intensity of existing risks and hazards, as well as introducing some long-term shifts in climate regimes across New Zealand (MfE, 2008; IPCC, 2007b).

Local government agencies are responsible for a range of functions that may be affected by climate change. For regional councils, these functions  include management of regional water and land resources, biosecurity, natural hazards management, emergency management, and regional land transport. Local authorities own community assets that may be vulnerable to climate change effects (MfE, 2008).

Based on this recognition, Waikato Regional Council requested a strategic assessment of the impacts of climate change on the Waikato region. The results in this assessment are intended to show the broad patterns of change for the region both in terms of
projections of spatially-explicit climate changes and climate variability and extremes. They are also intended to provide strategic information that is relevant to planning adaptation strategies for the region.

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