Formats
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Ministry for the Environment have released this draft Long-term Insights Briefing for public consultation between 6 and 27 August 2025. For more information, see the Building Resilience to Hazards Long-term Insights Briefing page. Once the briefing is finalised it will be presented to the House of Representatives and published on the DPMC website.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Ministry for the Environment have developed this hazards-focused Long-term Insights Briefing on behalf of the National Hazards Board, to consider how New Zealand might better prepare to meet the challenges presented by future hazard events.
While Long-term Insights Briefings are not government policy, they are focused on the future, with the intention of supporting New Zealanders to consider and better plan for challenges we expect to face on the horizon. The content of this briefing is intended to spark thinking, conversation and, ultimately, action – by people, institutions and communities.
In this briefing we explore and share information on:
- New Zealand’s evolving hazard landscape and how we can manage risks more proactively to protect people and assets
- the trade-offs and tough decisions New Zealand will need to make in building resilience, as well as the difficult realities we will need to understand
- opportunities for action, using case studies to illustrate potential ways we could strengthen resilience, leverage technology and develop innovative infrastructure.