Changes to the climate mean our weather is becoming more unpredictable and more extreme. In the years ahead, people in Matamata-Piako are likely to face increasingly frequent and severe storms and floods, and at the other extreme, more hot days, water shortages and risk of drought and wildfire.

These changes will have impacts for people across our district, and on our ability to provide services to our communities.

As part of the Long Term Plan 2024-34, we developed the Climate Change Rivermap which outlines the actions we are taking to adapt to changing conditions and safeguard the services we provide. We’re growing our understanding of the risks we face, and building the resilience of our key assets and services.

We are also developing a Climate Resilience Strategy, with input from our communities, to capture our shared aspirations and priorities for protecting the places, people, taonga, and ways of life we care most about – now and for the future.