Zoom with Dr Judy Lawrence - Climate Action in Aotearoa
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Climate Commissioner Dr Judy Lawrence will discuss the independent Climate Change Commission’s draft advice to the Government on the steps Aotearoa must take to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.
Public consultation on the draft advice begins tomorrow (Monday February 1) and runs until Sunday March 14. Written submissions are encouraged that respond to the questions and are supported by evidence and the Commission will consider them all and can make further adjustments to the advice as to what is possible over the three budget periods to 2035 and whether the recommendations will set us on a sustainable path to reaching the emissions targets in the Climate Change Response Act.
Dr Judy Lawrence is a member of the Climate Change Commission. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and Director of PS Consulting Ltd. Judy’s career traverses land use management, natural hazards, climate change adaptation and mitigation policy at central and local government. Her academic work focuses on decision making under uncertainty and changing risks and identifying institutional enablers to facilitate robust decision-making for climate change, for example for sea level rise. Judy works with multi-disciplinary teams in New Zealand and internationally and is a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report.