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Risk frameworks need 'fundamental rethink' to cope with climate change
New Zealand’s risk and resilience frameworks need a “fundamental rethink” if communities are going to adapt to the greater potential risks arising from climate change, Local Government New Zealand says. The country is a collection of seaside communities and they have to be bet...
Primary Sector
National Party open to higher methane targets
Methane reduction targets proposed as part of the country’s climate change response should be determined by the Climate Commission, even if that results in higher thresholds than those proposed now, National Party climate change spokesman Scott Simpson says. His party supports...
Infrastructure
Transmission Gully contractor suing NZTA for $352m
Transmission Gully contractor Wellington Gateway Partnership is seeking $352 million from the New Zealand Transport Agency over delays in starting the work. The claim would increase the $850 million construction cost to almost $1.2 billion, amounting to a 41 percent increase....
Primary Sector
NZ to go Dutch to battle climate change
Dutch and Kiwi farmers must innovate together, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte said, announcing a joint cooperation statement on climate change with New Zealand today. Today’s cooperation statement reiterates the commitments both countries have towards climat...
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