Building Resilience to Hazards Long-term Insights Briefing - Topic Consultation

Overview

We are seeking feedback on our Long-term Insights Briefing Topic

On behalf of the National Hazards Board, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC), and the Ministry for the Environment are seeking public feedback to help develop a Long-term Insights Briefing that explores how New Zealand can strengthen its resilience to future disasters and crises caused by major hazard risks (e.g. earthquakes, pandemics, severe weather).

This is your opportunity to help shape our Briefing topic and let us know what is of most importance and interest to you.

Our proposed topic is:

Everyone plays a part – building New Zealand’s resilience in the context of global trends and our unique natural environment.

What are Long-term Insights Briefings?

Long-term Insights Briefings look at future challenges and opportunities for New Zealand and are a requirement under the Public Service Act 2020.

Why are we consulting?

The future affects us all, and this consultation is an opportunity to have your say on what you think this Briefing could cover.

The Public Service Act 2020 requires agencies to undertake public consultation on the subject matter to be included in their Long-term Insights Briefings and helps ensure the Briefings explore problems impacting New Zealanders, by sharing useful information to inform public debate, academic research, and potential future policy initiatives.

Topic for consultation

This Briefing will consider how global trends (e.g., climate change, technological development, and geostrategic instability) and New Zealand’s natural and social features (e.g., its natural landscape, people, political economy, and demography) will shape our future experience of significant hazards.

It will consider implications for New Zealand and identify opportunities to increase our resilience to make New Zealanders safer.

Why this topic?

In response to New Zealand’s experience of several significant hazard events (such as severe weather and the COVID-19 pandemic), numerous reviews and inquiries have highlighted the importance of increasing our focus on building resilience to risks we face ahead of time.

Our goal is to make New Zealanders safer and reduce the economic and social costs associated with disasters and crises caused by major hazard risks. Resilience-building efforts require everyone working together and a common understanding of the challenges we face.  

Consultation document

You can read our consultation document here.

Submissions are official information

Submissions you make become official information, and the content of submissions can be asked for under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). Under the OIA, we must make information available unless there is good reason for withholding it.

What happens next

Thank you for providing your feedback. We'll update our website (dpmc.govt.nz) with more information on next steps soon.