Communities must be central to climate adaptation strategies – 10 insights to guide national policy
Communities must be central to climate adaptation strategies – 10 insights to guide national policy
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Communities must be central to climate adaptation strategies – 10 insights to guide national policy
Adaptation and planned relocation are unaffordable for at-risk communities and tangata whenua. Government cost-sharing is essential.
While both major political parties agree on the need for a nationally coherent adaptation plan, there is an impasse between the previous Labour government’s Treaty-based, equity-centred approach and the current National-led coalition’s fiscal discipline and burden-shifting logic.