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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
Not important to me whatsoever. The main impact it is having on our whanau is higher costs for things such as fuel and taxes etc, as the government is wasting an astonishing amount of money on climate change, and taking that money from kiwis. It is a complete and utter waste of money. No one i know cares about climate changeRedacted text.

2. The national adaptation plan focuses on three key areas. Please indicate which area is most important for you:

Please select one item
Focus area one
Focus area two
Focus area three
Other (please explain)
Please explain your answer here
None of these are of remote importance to our whakapapa

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 
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level. Cut all taxes and regulations associated with climate change. Start petitioning countries such as china who are the ones actually producing all the climate changes gases. Redacted text
Which actions do you consider to be most urgent? Please list them 
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Are there any actions that would help ensure that existing inequities are not exacerbated? Please list them 
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Are there any actions not included in this draft national adaptation plan that would enable you to assess your risk and help you adapt?
Dont care about climate risk and am unwilling to adapt my behavior in any regard to address climate change. I literally could not care less about it

4. Central government cannot bear all the risks and costs of adaptation. What role do you think asset owners, banks and insurers, the private sector, local government and central government should play in:

Improving resilience to the future impacts of climate change?
None. It is a complete and utter waste of money, will make no difference to the outcome and will increase taxes and costs to whanau already struggling
Sharing the costs of adaptation?
No way, we are not sharing any costs of this. We will cone to parliament in protest of it though, and you better believe that. This is a disgusting waste of money. Redacted text

5. The National Climate Change Risk Assessment recognised that there may be economic opportunities in adapting to a changing climate.

What opportunities do you think could exist for your community or sector?
None. Just higher taxes and food and energy and everything is literally negative in my assessment
What role could central government play in harnessing those opportunities?
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level. Cancel all climate change legislation. Cancel carbon credits. Cancel the entire climate change response, it is a waste of money

System-wide actions

6. Do you agree with the objectives in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
Absolutely idiotic and pointless objectives that will only have a negative affect on our whauau

7. What else should guide the whole-of-government approach to help New Zealand adapt and build resilience to a changing climate?

Please explain your answer here
Money considerations. We as a whanau want value for money for pur taxes. Climate change is the biggest waste of resources imaginable

8. Do you agree that the new tools, guidance and methodologies set out in this chapter will be useful for you, your community and/or iwi and hapū, business or organisation to assess climate risks and plan for adaptation?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
Tool is of little value or useRedacted text

9. Are there other actions central government should consider to:

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
We will not be adapting, period
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Complete and utter waste of money again
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Complete waste of taxpayers moneyRedacted text

10. What actions do you think will have the most widespread and long-term benefit for New Zealand?

Please explain your answer here
Doing absolutely nothing. Living like our forefathers. Not caring whatsoever about climate change. Thats how our whanau wants to do it. And cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

11. Are there additional actions that would strengthen climate resilience?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Strengthening climate resilience is of no value or use, just a complete waste of resources

12. There are several Government reform programmes underway that can address some barriers to adaptation, including the Resource Management (RM) reform. Are there any additional actions that we could include in the national adaptation plan that would help to address barriers in the short-term before we transition to a new resource management system?

Please explain your answer here
Cancel everything related to climate change response with the utmost urgency. Complete waste of money

13. In addition to clarifying roles and providing data, information, tools and guidance, how can central government unlock greater investment in resilience?

Please explain your answer here
By ignoring climate change completely. It is not worth spendibg 1 cent on
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Just a rip off is all i am hearing. Taxes and increased costs all round for zero benefits

Natural environment

14. Do you agree with the actions set out in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Stupid idiotic and not considering overall costs versus benefits

15. What else should guide central government’s actions to address risks to the natural environment from a changing climate?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

16. Are there other actions central government should consider to:

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

17. What do you identify as the most important actions that will come from outside of central government to build the natural environment’s resilience to the impacts of climate change?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

18. Are there additional actions that would advance the role of Māori as kaitiaki in a changing climate?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Waste of time mobey and resources. The benefits are zero

Homes, buildings and places

19. Do you agree with the outcome and objectives in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
Cost versus benefits don't add up. People having affordable housing is the priority, not climate change taxes increasing costs severely for kiwis

20. What else should guide central government’s actions to increase the resilience of our homes, buildings and places? 

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

21. Do you agree with the actions set out in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

22. Are there other actions central government should consider to: 

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

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?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
If yes,  what type of support would be effective? Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

24. From the proposed actions for buildings, what groups are likely to be most impacted and what actions or policies could help reduce these impacts?

Please explain your answer here
Everyone in country will be negatively impacted by these short sighted idiotic proposals

25. What are some of the current barriers you have observed or experienced to increasing buildings’ resilience to climate change impacts?

Please explain your answer here
What a stupid question. Obviously it is money. All these stupid proposals are of no benefit to kiwis, yet are prohibitively expensive to implement

Infrastructure

26. Do you agree with the outcome and objectives in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
Cost versus benefit clearly shows the benefit is minimal next to zero and associated costs are huge. Anyone with half a brain can see this doesn't add up

27. What else should guide central government’s actions to prepare infrastructure for a changing climate?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

28. Do you agree with the actions set out in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
The actions have been written by someone with no rational or critical thinking abilitiesRedacted text

29. The national adaptation plan has identified several actions to support adaptation in all infrastructure types and all regions of Aotearoa.

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Same treatment for everyone we are all equal
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Absolutely not. The tools and guidance are nothing short of a complete and utter disregard for everyday kiwis

30. Are there additional infrastructure actions that would help to strengthen Māori climate resilience?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
We are all equal

31. Are there any other tools or data that would help infrastructure asset owners make better decisions?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

Communities

32. Do you agree with the outcome and objectives in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
Again cost versus benefits dont add up. Waste of money with no benefits is all the outcome and objectives confer to me

33. Do you agree with the actions set out in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
Absolutely not. The actions are completely over the top and will negatively impact ordinary kiwis while providing bo real value

34. What actions will provide the greatest opportunities for you and your community to build climate resilience?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

35. Are there additional actions central government should consider to:

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
An inclusive response is just nonsense, all this proposal would do is gut, tax and destry communities
Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
We are all equal

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?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

37. Are there additional actions that could be included in the national adaptation plan to help strengthen climate resilience for iwi, hāpu and whānau?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
We are all equal

Economy and financial system

38. Do you agree with the outcome and objectives in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
Cost versus benefits dont agree again

39. What else should central government do to realise a productive, sustainable and inclusive economy which adapts and builds resilience to a changing climate?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

40. Do you agree with the actions set out in this chapter?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Partially
Please explain your answer here
The actions are simply stupid, costly, and provide little tp no benefit

41. Are there other actions central government should consider to:

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Central government shpuld focus on real issues, not fake ones like climate change
Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Who does this benefit? Not my whanau thats for sure

42. What do you think are the most important actions that will come from outside of central government to reduce the economic and financial risk they face from climate change?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

43. Are there additional actions within the financial system that would help strengthen Māori climate resilience?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
We are all equal

44. In the context of other risk management options (eg, flood barriers, retreat from high risk areas), what role should insurance have as a response to flood risk?

Please explain your answer here
None

45. Should the Government have a role in supporting flood insurance as climate change risks cause private insurance retreat?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Please explain your answer here
Waste of taxpayers money as usual
Please explain your answer here
No

46. If you think the Government should have a role in supporting flood insurance as climate change risks cause private insurance retreat, how do you envision the Government’s role, and how is this best achieved (eg, direct support and/or indirect support such as reducing underlying flood risk)?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

47. If the Government were to directly support flood insurance:

What is the best way to provide this direct support?
Let home owners deal with it through their insurance companies
Should the Government’s focus be to support availability or affordability of insurance, or both?   
Neither
How should the costs of that support be funded, and by whom?
Land owner. If someone wants to live near sea or river, they cover the costs of that risk should they be flooded.
What are the benefits and downsides of this approach?
This is only fair approach
Should this support be temporary or permanent?
Permanent
If temporary, what additional measures, if any, do you think would be needed to eventually withdraw this support (eg, undertaking wider flood protection work)?
None
What would the risks or benefits be of also including non-residential property, such as commercial property?
Obviously wiuld cost alot more to do that. Best if they arrange their own private insurance
What design features or complementary policies are needed so any flood insurance intervention retains incentives for sound flood-risk management (eg, discouraging development in high-risk locations)?
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

48. How effective do you think the insurance “price signal” (eg, higher premiums or loss of insurance) is for providing incentives to reduce flood risk?

Please explain your answer here
Very much effective

49. In your view, should a scheme similar to Flood Re in New Zealand be used to address current and future access and affordability issues for flood insurance?

Why or why not? Please explain your answer here
No. Waste of money

50. How do you think a scheme similar to Flood Re in New Zealand could support or hinder climate change adaptation initiatives in New Zealand?

Please explain your answer here
Climate change adaptation is just a load of garbage. A waste of money, resources and time full stop. Sone of us live in real world and have real problems, and Climate change is not even on my list of problems. I literally could not care less abput it.

Monitoring and reporting

51. Do you have any other thoughts about the draft national adaptation plan that you would like to share?

Please write your answer here
It is lacking in intelligence and foresight, and is going to cost so much resources to our whanau and community and country as a whole it needs to be immediately discarded into the nearest refuse binRedacted text.

Managed Retreat

52. Do you agree with the proposed principles and objectives for the Climate Adaptation Act?

Please explain why or why not
No. I do not think climate change is anything to be concerned about, period

53. Are there any other principles or objectives you think would be useful?

Please explain why here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

54. Do you agree with the process outlined and what would be required to make it most effective?

Please explain your answer here
Absolutely do not agree

55. What do you think should trigger the process?

Please explain your answer here
I dont think the process is worth triggering or supporting in any way, shape or form
What data and information would be needed?
None. Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level. That is all that is needed.

56. What other processes do you think might be needed, and in what circumstances?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

57. What roles and responsibilities do you think central government, local government, iwi/Māori, affected communities, individuals, businesses and the wider public should have:

In a managed retreat process?
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level. Let people make up their own minds. Most people i know dont believe in climate change, for good reason.
Sharing the costs of managed retreat?
Absolutely not. Waste of resources for zero benefit. I will not bbe sharing any of these wasteful costs

58. What support may be needed to help iwi/Māori, affected communities, individuals, businesses and the wider public participate in a managed retreat process?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

59. A typical managed retreat will have many costs, including those arising from preparation (including gathering data and information), the need to participate in the process, relocating costs and the costs of looking after the land post-retreat. In light of your feedback on roles and responsibilities (question 57), who do you think should be responsible for or contribute to these costs?

Please explain your answer here
They are unworthy of undertaking. Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level. This is the most essential thing that needs to be done.

60. What do you consider the key criteria for central government involvement in managed retreat?

Please explain your answer here
No involvement. Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

61. Should commercial properties/areas and residential properties/areas be treated differently in the managed retreat process?

Please explain why or why not
No

62. Are there circumstances in which people shouldn’t be able to stay in an area after community services are withdrawn?

Please explain your answer here
No i dont think this is fair

63. In what situations do you think it would be fair for you to be required to move from where you live?

Please explain your answer here
None. Unacceptable behavior is all this is. Abusing whauau and ripping people off is clearly the crowns intent

64. Many residential communities are made up of a combination of renters, owner-occupiers and people who own a property and use it as a second/holiday house. Do you think there are reasons for these groups to have different levels of involvement in a managed retreat process?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

65. Do you think different approaches should be taken for those who purchased properties before a risk was identified (or the extent or severity of the risk was known) and those who bought after the risk became clear?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

66. Under what circumstances do you think it would be fair or necessary for government to take approaches with a greater or lesser degree of intervention or support?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

67. How do you think land with historical, cultural, social or religious significance (eg, cemeteries or churches) should be treated?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

68. How do you think managed retreat would affect Māori?

Please explain your answer here
We are all equal

69. What do you see as being most important in developing a managed retreat system for Māori?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

70. How do you think Māori land (including Treaty settlement land) should be treated?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

71. How do you think post-event insurance payments could support managed retreat?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

72. Should insurability be a factor in considering the option of managed retreat from an area?

Please explain your answer here
Cancelling all government mandated responses to climate change, at a local and central government level.

Provide further feedback

Any general feedback on the consultation

Add your comments, ideas, and feedback here
I think the proposal is a complete and utter disgrace, and i will be back at parliament protesting should this disgraceful document ever be implemented. Redacted textour whanau sees straight through your lies and we will push back hard against people interfering with our whenua or whanauRedacted text.