The purpose of this report is to consider emerging global best practice for standards on climate risk disclosure regimes and how they might be adopted into the incoming mandatory regime in New Zealand.

Abstract Climate adaptation is recognised by many of the world’s largest businesses as a global risk and one that requires critical attention. The World Economic Forum’s 2013 Global Risks Perception Survey, identified the ‘failure of climate change adaptation and rising greenhouse gas emissions as among those global risks considered to be the most likely to...

This paper explores the challenges surrounding climate change policy and suggests the adaptation and mitigation frames limit the scope of the policy debate and inhibit the development of local government climate change strategies.

This paper appears in a period of a post-Al Gore 'climatic awakening' in the Australian community. Hardly a week passes without a sensational representation in the media of the potential impact of sea levels and other elements of climate change. In turn the major federal political parties in the pre-election surge have promised an array...