The Wellington City Council's making climate change and our rising sea levels a $280 million priority for the next ten years.

It's earmarked the money to spend on resilience projects to protect against earthquakes and major weather events.

The draft budget will be released later this week, with deliberations set to start next week.

$300,000 has been put towards coastal erosion repairs in Worser Bay, Seatoun and Evans Bay.

Mayor Justin Lester says being a coastal city means Wellington is first off the rank for the effects of rising sea-levels so they have to act now.

He says the city needs to be ready to face events like earthquakes or cyclones with minimal disruption.