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Policy Brief: How Thinking Like A Forest Can Build Climate Resilience Throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.

Pure Advantage — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:39:33 +0000

Climate change is influencing increasingly impactful and extreme weather events here in Aotearoa New Zealand. However, our current system for tackling carbon emissions is working against biodiversity restoration and community efforts.

It is clear that our approach urgently needs a rethink.

This briefing aims to advance the urgent conversation about what needs to be done.

Read our Policy Brief.

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Ten asks from the Government to enable progress on Recloaking Papatūānuku

Pure Advantage — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:46:05 +0000

In their recently released climate strategy, the Government signalled their support of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). While the Government is keen to see the private sector design and implement Nature-based solutions, ultimately we need the Government to act as a key enabling and implementing partner to deliver a programme like Recloaking Papatūānuku at the scale and with the urgency needed.

Here are ten key asks from Government that would support Recloaking Paptūānuku:

1. Fast-tracking a high-integrity, internationally reputable ecosystem restoration / nature-positive incentives scheme for landowners.

2. If forestry remains in the Emissions Trading Scheme, exploring the opportunity to qualitatively differentiate forestry credits so as to better reward indigenous forests (and their co-benefits).

3. Driving investor confidence in a robust high-integrity, internationally-aligned domestic Voluntary Carbon Market.

4. Properly recognising our Nationally Determined Contributions on the Crown accounts.

5. Making Recloaking Papatūānuku part of our Global Biodiversity Framework commitments at October’s Convention on Biological Diversity COP.

6. Properly recognising and funding the critical role of the Department of Conservation and Predator Free 2050 in landscape restoration, particularly through the significantly scaling up of animal pest and weed interventions across the conservation and Crown pastoral estate.

7. Enabling Crown Pastoral leaseholders to register indigenous afforestation and restoration efforts in the Emissions Trading Scheme (through legislative amendments).

8. Outlining the role Government sees the private sector performing to support landscape-scale ecological restoration and how it will facilitate nature-positive investments, including by leading the international implementation of Nature-Related Financial Disclosure requirements.

9. Recognising, incentivising, and supporting enhanced measurement techniques in relation to the sequestration effects of pest eradication and other restoration interventions, including additional sequestration gains in pre-1990 forests.

10. An unequivocal, public statement by the Government in support of Recloaking Papaptūānuku for all of its benefits and a commitment to further exploring its implementation as a means to amplify and galvanise collective action.

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S2 Episode 8: Setting the Record Straight

Pure Advantage — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 19:59:01 +0000

Season 2, Episode 8

In this episode, host Vince Heeringa is joined by Dr David Bergin, Prof. Warwick Silvester and Mark Kimberley, the scientists and authors behind the latest O Tātou Ngāhere research paper; Carbon Sequestration by Native Forest: Setting the Record Straight.

The podcast delves into the research, which demonstrates that well-managed planted indigenous forest is better at sequestering carbon than commonly considered, and proposes that the Carbon Look-up Tables for the Emission Trading Scheme should include the option for planted native species as well as regenerating native forest.

The podcast looks at the role this historically significant research plays in supporting the establishment of native forestry at scale in New Zealand, such as that recommended by the Climate Change Commission of 300,000 ha of new native forest by 2035.

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S2 Episode 7: Envisioning the Future

Pure Advantage — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 19:58:41 +0000

Season 2, Episode 7

In this episode for O Tātou Ngāhere ~ Our Forest, host Vincent Heeringa is joined by an accomplished panel of experts featuring Dame Anne Salmond, Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, impact entrepreneur Nathalie Whitaker of Toha Foundry, Peter Berg, Chair of Tānes Tree Trust and brand entrepreneur and farmer Geoff Ross of Lake Hawea Station, who is also a trustee for Pure Advantage.

In this dynamic discussion the panelists compare notes on their vision for more native forests in our whenua – for all the benefits they provide.

How much native forestry is enough?
Where should the forests be?
How should native forests be managed?
All these questions and more as we envision the future and place of New Zealand’s native forest.

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S2 Episode 6: Making it Happen

Pure Advantage — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 19:57:59 +0000

Season 2, Episode 6

In this episode, ‘Making it Happen’ host Vincent Heeringa is joined by a talented group of panelists. Annabell Chartres, a partner at PwC in Auckland, Kevin Prime, a multi-generational farmer from Northand, Waihoroi Shortland, who is recognised within Māoridom as one of the outstanding Te Reo Māori specialists and Dr. David Hall, a senior lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology and a thought leader in the national climate policy and research space.

The group discuss what policy environment is needed to give landowners the confidence to invest in transition and what role a New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme plays, as well as unpacking other investment/finance instruments being developed or available to utilise in the New Zealand context.

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S2 Episode 5: The Carbon Sink

Pure Advantage — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 19:56:27 +0000

Season 2, Episode 5

In this episode, host Vincent Heeringa is joined by Carbon experts Dr. Mark Kimberley, Consultant to Tanes’ Tree Trust, Dr. Sean Weaver of Ekos and Matt Walsh of NZ Carbon Farming.

Forests are considered essential in helping New Zealand meet our emission reduction targets; so how do existing and new native forests genuinely contribute and over what time horizon?

What are the myths and information gaps in evaluating the emissions reduction role of New Zealand native forests?

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