Insurance companies are the climate change canaries-in-the-coal-mine. Many are pulling back or excluding forseeable risks.
https://www.reuters.com/business/fin...es-2023-07-11/
Meanwhile there is very little intelligent discussion in the current lead up to the election even though the effects of climate change are will increasingly bite NZ hard with so much investment on low lying flood plains around the coast.
The pollies and media seem eager to beat up on the already beaten up people.