Inquiry into climate adaptation

LGNZ welcomes the opportunity to submit on the Inquiry into climate adaptation (the Inquiry). This submission supplements our submission on the earlier Inquiry into community-led retreat, which set out the need for local and central government to work together to create an enduring framework for climate adaptation and planned retreat, including national direction for risk assessments and funding. We also encouraged the Committee to develop a more appropriate term than ‘community-led retreat’, we propose that a term such as ‘proactive relocation’ may more positively reflect the forward-thinking nature of the process.

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