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Community-Led Retreat and Climate Change Adaptation: Why a New Framework and Approach is Required
The Resource Management Review Panel, in their report ‘New Directions for Resource Management in New Zealand’, proposed that a separate piece of legislation addressing climate change adaptation and managed retreat be developed, called the Climate Change Adaptation Act (CAA). The CAA was intended to work in tandem with the two other pieces of legislation that would eventually replace the Resource Management Act 1991, which are now signaled for repeal. In August 2022, an inquiry into community-led retreat was initiated by the Ministry for the Environment, with an Expert Working Group report released to inform that work. In drawing on recent experience and challenges across Aotearoa in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle and other severe weather events, it is clear that a new framework, approach and tools and mechanisms are needed to achieve retreat and relocation.
- How will that framework impact on local government, in terms of its strategic planning, funding, community engagement and decision-making roles?
- What will new legislation mean for liability risk, and how will council policy development and regulation of natural hazard related risk need to change?
- What do councils need to be aware of now, and what are the opportunities to inform the preparation of the CAA?
- How will that framework impact on local government, in terms of its strategic planning, funding, community engagement and decision-making roles?
- What will new legislation mean for liability risk, and how will council policy development and regulation of natural hazard related risk need to change?
- What do councils need to be aware of now, and what are the opportunities to inform the preparation of the CAA?
Presented by Mike Wakefield, Partner, Simpson Grierson
Chair
Lizzy Wiessing, Barrister, Kate Sheppard Chambers
Learning Objective:
- Examine the implications of the proposed Climate Change Adaptation Act on local government
Presenters
Mike Wakefield, Partner, Simpson Grierson
Mike is a partner in Simpson Grierson’s planning and environment group, specialising in local government and environmental law. His experience covers all aspects of the regulatory functions of local government (including under the RMA), strategic policy development (under the LGA, RMA and other legislation) and the decision-making and governance requirements of local government. Mike regularly appears at Council hearings, before the courts and specialist tribunals, with a particular interest in policy related challenges.
Lizzy Wiessing, Barrister, Kate Sheppard Chambers
Lizzy Wiessing is a member of Kate Sheppard Chambers and has been at the Independent Bar since June 2021. She has a professional background in policy analysis, and local government, public law and civil litigation legal issues, having worked in the local government space throughout her career. She has advised on a wide range of local government matters, including matters arising from the national and local emergencies of the last few years.
