Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Plan of Action
Goals for the Plan of Action
The shared goals for climate change and sustainable land management in the Plan of Action are an important first step to ensuring a durable and constructive partnership between the Government, the land management sectors, local government and Māori.
Feedback from consultation in early 2007 provided a number of new suggestions for those goals. The revised goals are that:
- the sectors are positioned to take advantage of the economic opportunities arising from climate change and changing consumer preferences;
- the sectors and their communities are less vulnerable and better able to adapt to a changing climate;
- New Zealand is a recognised world leader in the development of practical technologies and management practices for farmers to measure and reduce agriculture emissions;
- the sectors are internationally competitive and land use flexibility is maintained, taking into account the environmental costs of land use decisions;
- forestry is fully integrated into land use decisions to help deliver sustainable land management outcomes;
- forests and forest products are widely used in adapting to and reducing the impacts of climate change.
These goals will form the basis of discussion between the Government and the land management sectors, local government and Māori as the Plan of Action is developed. They will be considered and final recommendations made by a Peak Group of partners to the Plan of Action.
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Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change
MAF
Pastoral House
25 The Terrace
PO Box 2526, Wellington
Tel: 0800 CLIMATE (254 628)
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