Abstract
Awareness of climate change is increasing, as more is understood about change in Aotearoa/New Zealand (A/NZ) and across the Pacific. The Pacific strategies are the results of long-standing observation, planning, and action. Māori too utilise regionally based traditional knowledge frameworks to find solutions to new challenges and are well placed to lead attempts to lessen the impact from climate change in A/NZ. This chapter summarises the efforts so far, and also introduces new technological initiatives that could assist in the future such as blue carbon, salt-water resistant crops, and ‘floating houses’. The Pacific Island Countries have shown the way and A/NZ can learn from the many ways that indigenous Pacific knowledge’s have been utilised to help lessen the impact from climate change in the Pacific.
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Ngāi Tahu Iwi mission statement, in Development strategy Vision 2015. ‘www.ngaitahu.iwi.nz’.
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The Third Pacific Islands Development Forum Leaders Summit, held in Suva in September 2015 had as its overarching theme “Building Climate Resilient Green Blue Pacific Economies”.
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It is fully understood that despite the absence of Australia and New Zealand at the PIDF meetings, other powers, such as China, were welcomed.
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Vierros, 2013.
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Carter, L. (2019). Where to from Here? Learning from Our Pacific Neighbours. In: Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change. Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96439-3_7
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