27 August 2025
OraTaiao supports the intent of this long-term insights briefing (‘the briefing’). However, we believe it can be meaningfully improved and wish to make the following recommendations:
- Addition of Te Tiriti as a foundation of resilience building.
- Greater emphasis on the intersection between health and hazards throughout.
- Improved articulation of equity and greater emphasis on the necessity of equity in resilience building.
- Improved articulation of ‘Climate change and environmental stress’ in Section 2: Forces that shape risk and resilience.
- Additions to Section 2: Forces that shape risk and resilience.
- Accuracy on the current status of the Resource Management Act and its relationship to hazards planning.
Read our full submission here.