‘Significant’ gap in climate adaptation law: Environmental Defence Society

Sea-spray hits houses in Lyall Bay on the South Coast of Wellington in a July storm that brought 130km/h winds and seven metre swells. PHOTO: Lana Young / NIWA

The lack of a legal framework for climate risk assessments at a regional or local level is a gap in law that should be fixed by a proposed Climate Adaptation Act, says the Environmental Defence Society.

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