feature Some thoughts about MAF’s Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change: Options for a Plan of Action (Wellington, 2006)

must adopt a national stance to address problems created by concerns about global climate change brought on by rising accumulations of greenhouse gasses. This has further prompted the development of a series of policies to detail responses to those varied aspects of New Zealand life expected to be affected. What has brought on this concern about climate change? What kinds of response are being mooted? What sorts of effects will such responses bring? In response to mounting acknowledgement of worrisome climate change, the unwitting role humans have played in it, and the call to do something about it internationally, the United Nations adopted its Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. Following this, th