Rising costs and rising seas: Parliament’s climate adaptation inquiry

Posted: 01 Sep 2024

When New Zealand's colonial founders built our cities and towns, they clearly lacked flooding and coastal erosion modelling in their town planning.
Climate change is a pretty ubiquitous topic in Parliament. It’s the subject of so many debates and conversations in the House, which tend to get pretty heated at the best of times.
 

Invariably, this is an issue that transcends generations, and indeed governments. Hence the need for bi-partisan collaboration and consensus on lawmaking in this area.

Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee (FEC)  is currently leading the charge on this, with an inquiry into climate adaptation. 
 

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