These two Bills will replace the Resource Management Act. They are intended to provide for the management of the natural and human environment through a 30 year spatial planning framework.
Our submission outlined recent science brought together by the Planetary Solvency programme, which indicates the IPCC’s models have underestimated Earth’s climate sensitivity. Higher sensitivity means more warming for any given level of emissions, and faster approach to dangerous temperature thresholds. This poses a high level of under-appreciated risk for many of the concerns the two Bills seek to address, notably the economic.
The submission noted the almost complete absence of climate change in the two Bills. It recommended additions to their Goals sections to include climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to support climate-resilient development.
More information by EDS covering other serious concerns about these two Bills here.
See the submission prepared by the NTCF Submissions group here: 2026-02-13 NTCF Natural Environment and Spatial Planning Bills Submission