Climate change

Since 1990, New Zealand’s agricultural greenhouse gas emissions have grown by about 1% each year. Intensified farming has led to added emissions of nitrous oxide and methane in particular.

Climate change – as a wicked problem – can form a rich real-life context for developing students’ thinking, visioning and problem-solving skills, action competence and an array of key competencies.

Focusing on one main issue – the science and innovations of reducing dairy sector greenhouse emissions – can provide an opportunity for students to develop a deeper understanding.

• The primary sector and climate change – article

• Climate change – implications for dairy farming – article

• Dairy innovations – targeting climate change – article

• Measuring greenhouse gas emissions – article

• Farming and environmental pollution – article

• Inhibiting nitrous oxide emissions – article

• Climate change – a wicked problem for classroom inquiry – PLD

• Climate change, science and controversy – PLD

• Climate change – challenging conversations – PLD

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