Invest in resilience
Investing in resilience through climate action involves enhancing infrastructure, promoting sustainability, improving community preparedness, protecting natural resources, and supporting innovation. These measures reduce vulnerabilities and ensure a sustainable future.
What is resilience?
Resilience is a way of describing how well we handle challenges. There are a few aspects to consider, like being able to withstand or recover quickly from a shock. Resilience isn’t just about bouncing back from bad events. It’s also about growing and getting better at dealing with future challenges. It means being ready to adapt and finding new ways to thrive.
What makes a community resilient is not always obvious. Access to resources is important, but social cohesion, connection, and the health and wellbeing of individuals in a community play big roles too.
Stories of change
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$600,000 of Climate Resilient Communities Funding allocated
Twenty-two projects around Te Taitokerau are to share $600,000 of Northland Regional Council funding designed to help build climate resilience.
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Water Resilience Case Study 2 – Waikotihe Puna
The drought over the 2019/2020 summer left a lasting impression in Te Taitokerau and exposed significant water challenges, particularly amongst rural communities without access to public water supply.
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Water Resilience Case Study 1 – Tūtū Te Wai
Te Rūnunga o Whaingaroa's partnership with the Northland Regional Council has provided over 300 people in Whangaroa with secure access to clean drinking water, improving community resilience and well-being.
Invest in Resilience
Water resilience for Te Taitokerau
The Northland Regional Council Climate Resilient Communities Fund continues to prioritise water resilience for vulnerable communities.
The fund enabled hapū to devise their own hapori-led solutions
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Building resilience often has a wide range of benefits, including cost savings, reduced emissions, and empowering communities to realise new opportunities. Building resilience ties into regenerating nature, because thriving ecosystems provide for our needs, such as fresh water, fertile soils, and wild foods.
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