Everyone, from homeowners to policy makers, from marae committees to corporations, is asking, “How much will climate change cost us, and how much will it cost to adapt?” But are these the best questions? How are the assessment tools and frameworks we currently use to guide investment considering the “costs” of climate change, or the benefits of adaptation?Do we risk embedding an unbalanced future, because we’re struggling to step back and consider the full extent of what’s at stake? This fourth and final podcast, with key thinkers in the space, will examine what we know about “costing climate change”, what we don’t know, and perhaps even what we don’t know we don’t know.Episode 4 | Framing the costs of climate change, with Sacha McMeeking, Anita Wreford, Jodie Kuntzsch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do we currently price, pay for and transfer “climate risk”? Are these methods reducing danger or delaying what we do about it? Insurance only works when you can afford it; who will be (or is being?) most harmed if we don’t support different ways of protecting ourselves and our communities? This third podcast, with experts from within and outside of the insurance industry, interrogate the role of insurance now, and what it might need to play an effective and equitable role in climate adaptation.Episode 3 | Insurance for adaptation, with Ronji Tanielu, Carolyn Kousky and Belinda Storey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To understand the paradigm within which we consider concepts of value, cost and risk, we need to grapple with our past and reconsider our present. In this second podcast, senior economist Shaun Awatere and Te Tiriti educator Jen Margaret look backwards and forwards, exploring how our economy and economic frameworks have evolved and been impacted by past decision-making, and what this could mean for our future with a changing climate.Episode 2 | Ka mua ka muri, with Shaun Awatere & Jen Margaret Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first podcast in our rolling symposium is a conversation with the Pou Tikanga of the Deep South Challenge Ruia Aperahama, and our Climate Change Knowledge Broker Kate Turner, exploring the symposium’s name.Within mātauranga Māori, the concept of “utu” suggests that if something is taken, permission must first be requested. Once taken, something of equal or greater value must be returned. Further obligations are in this way generated, and a relationship becomes reciprocal. In the pūrākau of Papa and Rangi, for choosing to separate his parents, Tāne repays them over and again, with his heart forever to Papa and his feet always striving for Rangi – an expression of ever growing love. With this image, we see Tāne as upside down. But perhaps it is we who are the wrong way up? Are we capable of making decisions that return to Papa and Rangi value greater than what we have taken?Episode 1 | Ko Papa Ko Rangi: Up or Down? With Ruia Aperahama, Alexandra Keeble and Māni Dunlop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Work is underway across Aotearoa to quantify the costs of climate change, including the costs of adaptation or of failure to adapt. But how do we understand “cost” and will our economic paradigm really lead to effective climate adaptation? If we can’t or don’t quantify/consider some costs of climate change (and benefits of adaptation!), how can we ensure these are factored in our adaptation decisions? On the one hand, we need frameworks and tools that help us analyse our adaptation decisions (and indecisions). On the other, we need to consider the paradigm driving our current thinking, and the limits of current economic tools and frameworks to help us make collectively oriented, intergenerational decisions. Are we capable of making decisions that return to Papa and Rangi value greater than what we have taken? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.