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Across
- 3. a Māori system that emphasises taking an intergenerational approach to combatting climate change
- 5. the removal and loss of trees and vegetation
- 7. this substance takes 20 - 500 years to fully decompose
- 10. to use something more than once
- 11. second hand shopping
- 12. earth is losing 1.2 trillion tons of this every year
- 14. what happens to coral when the ocean warms
- 16. new zealand's most climate polluting company
- 17. a greenhouse gas commonly associated with the dairy industry
- 19. an action we can take to minimise our consumption
- 20. the preservation of our biodiversity and natural landscapes
- 22. a type of vegetable oil that drives deforestation
- 23. the process of converting waste into reusable material
Down
- 1. an industry that constitutes 10% of all human carbon emissions
- 2. an international school student climate strike movement
- 4. a natural process of recycling organic matter
- 6. a prominent swedish environmental activist
- 8. the amendment the government passed in 2019, which promises to reduce new zealand's greenhouse gas net emissions to zero by 2050
- 9. a programme in new zealand schools aimed to support young people in designing and implementing sustainability actions
- 13. the variety of life on earth
- 15. dioxide the most prominent green house gas in our atmosphere
- 18. an international treaty created in 2015 that seeks to combat climate change
- 21. the layer in our atmosphere that absorbs uv radiation from the sun