Past events

Extreme storms are likely to become stronger, more frequent and more damaging as our climate changes. These storms can cause real harm to communities and entire regions. Increasingly damaging extreme weather events also pose long-term sustainability challenges for public risk transfer mechanisms (such as the Earthquake Commission or EQC). This seminar with Ilan Noy (Victoria University of Wellington) will provide an overview of his research into climate change and the EQC.

The Deep South Challenge is proud to be a silver sponsor of the 2019 Eco Design Advisor Conference, with its focus on the convergence of housing and climate change. The conference will look at both the contribution housing makes to climate change and how our housing needs to respond to the impact of changing climate. 

New Deep South Challenge research on flood management funding shows a need for a more coordinated approach between regional councils, particularly with more storms and sea-level rise on the horizon. This seminar with Patrick Walsh (Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research) will explore council-run "flood mitigation schemes" - both their effectiveness in reducing flood damage and whether they're a fair way to manage flood risk.

The Deep South Challenge: Changing with our Climate is excited to once again be partnering with the Climate and Business Conference, "An Eye to the Future: Defining business in a climate change resilient world and exploring how to get there."

We make decisions based on what we think will happen in the future, and where climate is concerned, these decisions often involve a cost. There’s a balance between the costs involved in preparing for future change now, and the cost of being unprepared for change when it arrives. To assess this balance and prepare effectively, we need to understand how reliable the evidence from climate models is.

The Deep South Challenge is proud to sponsor the 2019 the NZ Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (NZARES) Conference in Hamilton. The theme of the 2019 conference is “Policy and Planning under Uncertainty” and sessions include panels on climate change policy pathways and on climate adaptation.

Councils across New Zealand are declaring climate emergencies. But what climate information are they using to make their decisions and inform their communities? In this seminar, we'll hear from Ryan Paulik and Rob Bell (NIWA), whose ground-breaking research investigates how flooding will get worse under climate change - both at the coast and inland, alongside our rivers.

This three-part webinar series draws from the Climate-Adaptive Communities research project of the Deep South Challenge.

The LGNZ 2019 conference, "Riding the localism wave: Putting communities in charge", is all about communities and empowering them to take charge of their social, economic, environmental and culture well-being through localism. The Deep South Challenge is proud to be a gold sponsor and to continue our important and ongoing partnership with LGNZ, supporting our local communities to adapt to our changing climate.