How will climate change impact Māori wellbeing?

How will climate change impact Māori wellbeing?

Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2025-12-15 03:00

New Zealand

A new policy paper brings together 20 years of research from Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga around how our warming world will impact Māori wellbeing.  When it comes to Māori enterprise, for example, Māori own nearly 40% of commercial forestry plantations, which face increasing wildfire risk. Cultural infrastructure is also likely to be increasingly affected, where marae and urupā located on erosion-prone land or in low-lying areas are under threat from flooding. The paper recommends 15 policy actions, such as maintaining consistent emissions targets that aren’t subject to election cycles, and including Māori in climate change planning.