Debate and policy development around how New Zealand cities should prepare for and respond to climate change impacts — including flooding, urban heat, infrastructure investment, managed retreat, and frameworks for building climate-resilient urban environments.
How the framings classify across 7 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
urbanisation subtly alters storm patterns
Cities are making it rain more – but not as much as scientists thoughtageing population, climate resilience, future readiness
\\ \\ 20 May 2026\\ \\ Press Release\\ \\ **New report calls for stronger use of cost–benefit analysis in infrastructure investment** \\ \\ A new research report from engineering firm WSP and the Helen Clark Foundation is calling for a more consistent, disciplined, evidence-led approach to infrastructure investment across Aotearoa New Zealand.\\ \\ H\\ \\ Helen Clark FoundationLobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
ageing population, climate resilience, future readiness
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
Well, this is the problem though, isn't it, Katie? Is that Nick Blakely basically lies to MPs but then doesn't have to go. And then Marty Grenfell has a report …
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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