Adapt and thrive: Building a climate-resilient Aotearoa New Zealand

Facilitating the growth of private redundant systems of services like water, food.

Fund subsidies and remove consent requirements for larger size water tanks on residential homes. Establish or fund companies or organisation's able to facilitate residential and rural growth of produce via seeds, seedlings, cheaper compost (could come from a state supported company taking residential and commercial food waste also reducing our landfill emssions). Increase availability of public water fountains in high traffic areas across NZ to promote water bottle filling and reuse. This will also lower the massive contribution the drinks market has to environment pollution.

As above.

Yes, residential areas should be treated differently in terms of managing costs of the retreat. Perhaps those homes purchased after a well published date of climate change forewarning should not be subsidized as those owners had much opportunity and information to assess the risk for themselves. For residential areas purchased before that published date, a percentage subsidy should be allowed and land the same size made available elsewhere for purchase, which the government may have to purchase initially if none is available. Commercial areas which have to retreat should be reestablished elsewhere with a low interest loan to private commercial land owners. Commercial activities deem that those properties were developed with the realized ability to sustain a profit or with the perceived increase in the equity of a commercial site/building.