Past events
Climate Change and Local Government Forum
The Climate Change and Local Government Forum is an exciting new event featuring New Zealand experts in this area. Mainly (but not exclusively) for local government professionals, it's an opportunity to hear from both climate researchers and local government practitioners facing the challenge of adapting to our changing climate.
Climate Change, Stormwater and Wastewater Systems Webinar
A webinar hosted by SOLGM (the New Zealand Society of Local Government Managers) with Professor Iain White, presenting findings from our Impacts and Implications paper outlining current knowledge and priority areas of research needed to prepare our stormwater and wastewater systems for a changing climate.
DSC Seminar #6 | Counting the cost of climate change: Treasury seminar redux
With Dave Frame, Belinda Storey and David Fleming
Treasury Guest Lecture: Climate Change, Counting the Cost
With guest lecturers and Deep South Challenge researchers Dave Frame, Belinda Story and David Fleming.
Pacific Climate Change Conference 2018
Climate change is already changing the nature of the weather and the seasonal climate, and raising sea levels across the globe. Left unchecked, climate change presents huge risks for food security, water availability, and habitability. It is the number one problem facing humanity.
DSC Seminar #5: Drew Lorrey & Petra Pearce on historic weather and the NZ earth system model
Rescuing historic weather to understand New Zealand’s future climate
Creating a climate-safe Dunedin through community-driven climate action
A community-driven initiative in South Dunedin is getting the rolling on climate adaptation. “Our City, Our Climate,” led by the Blueskin Resilient Communities Trust and supported by the Deep South Challenge, is calling in the big guns – key climate scientists, local and central government decision makers, iwi with cultural and financial assets at stake, and property and business owners with livelihoods on the line, to find ways to break through the red tape that currently hinders progress on climate adaptation.
SCANZ (Science Communicators Association of NZ) Conference 2017
This year at SCANZ, members of the Deep South Challenge as well as science communicators from other National Science Challenges, will be participating in a panel exploring the challenges and highlights of communicating about New Zealand's most pressing social and scientific issues.
Sustainable Healthcare in Aotearoa NZ: 1 Day Forum
Human health relies on a healthy planet – health care without harm?