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Property rights and insurance: two thorny issues for climate change adaptation
The government says NZ has to face up to difficult questions as it adapts to the extreme of climate change.
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Pattrick Smellie: Climate change and the 'last person standing' conundrum
Severe flooding and sea level rise are existential threats for property owners, but expecting the government to carry the can in perpetuity is a pipedream.
Energy
Decarbonising subsidies leverage $185m investment from businesses
Energy minister Megan Woods today announced the latest allocation of money from the government investment in decarbonising industry (GIDI) fund.
Economy
Housing credit demand and availability expected to fall
Lending to small and large businesses and to farmers is a little stronger.
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Pattrick Smellie
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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.
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