Photo: Supplied / National Iwi Chairs Forum

Climate change is a key focus for iwi leaders gathering at Waitangi this week, as coastal communities across the North Island recover from recent severe weather events.

The National Iwi Chairs Forum, representing more than 70 iwi, has been meeting to set priorities for the year ahead, with leaders pointing to the increasing frequency and severity of weather events as a growing concern.

Taane Aruka Te Aho, one of the rangatahi leaders of Te Kāhu Pōkere - the group that travelled to Brazil for COP30 last year - told RNZ that recent weather events across the motu have become a repeating pattern.

"The data shows us that these climate catastrophes are going to keep coming, more frequent, more severe.

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