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The outgoing Buller Mayor has made an impassioned plea for future leaders to continue climate adaptation work to help protect his flood-prone town of Westport.
Jamie Cleine cried as he told the Adaptation Futures Conference about the risk facing his town from multiple and increasingly damaging floods.
Westport has been repeatedly inundated by flooding since European settlement but that had escalated in recent years.
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