Nau mai, haere mai, and welcome to the interim home for information about the Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform. 

The Platform was included in the 2024 Budget as a collaborative natural hazards resilience research programme, with funding of $70 million over seven years delivered through the Strategic Science Investment Fund. Like the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge (RNC) (2014-2024), the Platform will be mission-led, multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational. The Platform will be hosted by GNS Science with broad collaboration across research organisations. 

The purpose of the Platform is to enhance New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards. It will deliver science across the 4 Rs (reduction, readiness, response, recovery) to underpin New Zealand’s Disaster Resilience Strategy, and support science capability important for New Zealand’s resilience and emergency management.  

The Platform will have a strong focus on working with research users including central and local government, iwi/Māori, communities, and the infrastructure, insurance and other industry sectors. 

As well as delivering research, the Platform will provide science capability during emergencies, and fulfil a coordination function for event science response.