Energy Sector Climate Change Scenarios
Overview
Aotearoa is dependent on a thriving and efficient energy sector, which now faces many challenges in the face of the urgent realities of climate change. Extreme weather events, rising temperatures and the increasing regulatory pressure to decarbonise mean stakeholders in the energy sector must adapt, evolve, and explore a range of plausible climate futures to become climate resilient.
The Aotearoa Circle, with PwC as Secretariat, convened leaders from across the energy sector to develop a set of climate change scenarios. These scenarios provide visibility to the potential impacts of climate change across the sector’s value chain and provide a comparable and consistent basis for the participating organisations own risk assessments and scenario analysis.
Energy Sector Climate Change Scenarios released
This report provides a set of Climate Change Scenarios for New Zealand energy sector. These scenarios explore what the sector could look like under different, hypothetical climate futures. This report is designed to be used by Climate Reporting Entities (those required by law to report on their climate impacts and dependencies) and others who are adhering to XRB standards. It will also be of use to any person or entity with a stake in the future of our energy sector, as New Zealand considers how to prepare for the impacts of climate change.
Click here or on the image to download the report.
Launch of the Energy Sector Climate Scenarios
On the 20th of June, the Aotearoa Circle and PwC hosted an online webinar to introduce the report, hearing from Annabell Chartres (Partner, Sustainability, Climate & Nature, PwC New Zealand), James Ayling (Senior Manager, Sustainability, Climate & Nature, PwC New Zealand), and Hunter Douglas (Climate Scientist, Sustainability, Climate & Nature, PwC New Zealand).
Leadership Group
Wider Interest Group
Business New Zealand Energy Council (BEC)
Bioenergy Association of NZ
EECA
Energy Resources Aotearoa (ERA)
External Reporting Board
Gas Industry
NZ Geothermal