Building a safer and more resilient New Zealand
The Government has published a Long-term Insights Briefing on building New Zealand’s long-term resilience to hazards, such as severe weather, pandemics, volcanic activity, and earthquakes.
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See Building Resilience to Hazards: Long-term Insights Briefing the Briefing.
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Read a summary of the Long-term Insights Briefing (PDF 800KB)
The briefing looks at how New Zealand’s hazard landscape is shifting, the major national risks we face and what we can do as a nation to help build Aotearoa’s resilience to hazards.
Building national resilience will help us manage the impacts of more frequent and severe disasters and provide economic, social and environmental benefits.
Long-term Insights Briefings serve as a conversation starter to help people plan for future hazards. They look at future challenges and opportunities for New Zealand and are a requirement under the Public Service Act 2020, developed independently of Ministers, so not Government policy.
National resilience is a shared responsibility. It’s not just about big infrastructure or government policy – it’s about everyday actions.
There are many ways we can shape our future together, through technology, investment strategies, and green design
Recent severe weather events show why building resilience can’t wait.
Acting now through a proactive, all-of-society approach will help us protect what matters most. National resilience is a long game, requiring sustained investment, strategic thinking, collaboration and the courage to make tough decisions today for a safer tomorrow.
Consider the briefing and how it can inform your business, organisation, community and household’s resilience planning.