This guidance document helps ensure coastal hazards and climate change are being factored into planning in New Zealand's coastal areas.

This report explores how and why New Zealand's climate and atmosphere are changing, and considers the current and future effects of the changing climate on the things New Zealanders care about.

This report brings together information on the economic and fiscal implications of climate change and New Zealand’s response to it. The costs of climate change will be large and felt unevenly across different sectors and groups of society. The choices made by governments, businesses and households, domestically and internationally, will all influence how the impacts...

The New Zealand Ministry for the Environment's first long-term insights briefing explores issues and options for how New Zealand can secure a sustainable future for both the land and the generations that follow.

From 30 November 2022, it becomes a legal requirement for local government to ‘have regard to’ the national adaptation plan and the emissions reduction plan when preparing or changing Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) regional policy statements, regional plans, and district plans. This guidance note has been prepared to help local government meet this requirement.