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1. What is your name?
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Robin Gunston
5. If on behalf of an organisation, what is its name?
Name of organisation
Paraparaumu Baptist Church
Our climate reality: why we need to adapt to the impacts of climate change
1. How is climate change impacting you? This could be within your community and/or hapū and iwi, and/or your business/organisation, and/or your region.
Please explain your answer here
Locally we have seen some heavy rainfall events which closed local roads and disrupted services especially in the rural part.
2. The national adaptation plan focuses on three key areas. Please indicate which area is most important for you:
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Focus area one
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We are part of an Institution- The Church, and more specifically the Baptist Union of NZ, that will need reforming in some aspects to adapt to all aspects of climate change.
3. We all have a role to play in building resilience to climate change, but some New Zealanders may be more effected and less able to respond.
What are the key actions that are essential to help you adapt? Please list them
1. Set national direction on natural hazard risk management and climate adaptation through the National Planning Framework
2. Produce guidance on using different socio-economic scenarios for adaptation
planning
3. Produce guidance for preparing adaptation plans
4. Regularly update the guide to local climate change risk assessments
2. Produce guidance on using different socio-economic scenarios for adaptation
planning
3. Produce guidance for preparing adaptation plans
4. Regularly update the guide to local climate change risk assessments
Which actions do you consider to be most urgent? Please list them
All above
Homes, buildings and places
19. Do you agree with the outcome and objectives in this chapter?
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21. Do you agree with the actions set out in this chapter?
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22. Are there other actions central government should consider to:
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Please explain your answer here
In any community there are limited social gathering buildings eg Schools, Churches and Community Halls, which may all have differing climate change risk profiles. There needs to be a matching of probable community needs to the available resources so that improvements can be made ahead of time.
23. Do you think that there is a role for government in supporting actions to make existing homes and/or buildings more resilient to future climate hazards?
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If yes, what type of support would be effective? Please explain your answer here
Ensuring community buildings would be fit for climate change adaptation purposes eg were a refuge, an Emergency Centre, an advice centre etc. This could be by means of a loan and/or a specific purposes grant.
25. What are some of the current barriers you have observed or experienced to increasing buildings’ resilience to climate change impacts?
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Limited availability of capital is a major constraint for small community building owners.
Communities
32. Do you agree with the outcome and objectives in this chapter?
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Everything about community relates to human capital and its effective deployment and support. This will be a variabe as climate changel effects are felt. It is importnat thatse are broad wellbeing objectives due to the uncertain times ahead.
33. Do you agree with the actions set out in this chapter?
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There is an absence in the descriptions about how communities of people will engage in all these actions. As much is being asked of people to change perhaps their whole way of living, it is imperative that there is adequate time to listen and to wrestle with abstract concepts that will be foreign to many people. There will the need to mobilise an "army" of good communicators throughout Aotearoa who can assure people their vocies have been heard effectively. This will take a lot longer than these plans outline.
34. What actions will provide the greatest opportunities for you and your community to build climate resilience?
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Understanding the climate change risk profile for our specific geographic community
35. Are there additional actions central government should consider to:
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See above comment, trusted Community agents have to be delegated a role to keep bringing communities together and hui about the adaptaion and response plans
36. What do you think are the most important actions that will come from outside of central government to strengthen community resilience in the face of climate change?
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Community wellbeing organisations, like most churches, will taken on the role of being climate change agents in teir communities.
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