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Sustainability Reporting is here. How should Kiwi Businesses respond?
This Climate Business - May 23, 2024 21:00 - 24 minutesThere’s a fast-growing thicket of regulations and trade agreements standing between corporate New Zealand and its overseas markets. This emerging landscape has been mapped out by law firm Chapman Tripp in Protecting New Zealand’s Competitive Advantage, a report for the Aotearoa Circle. Co-autho...
Is civil disobedience effective? David Williams, Newsroom
This Climate Business - May 14, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutesDavid Williams is a journalist with Newsroom. He recently interviewed Extinction Rebellion protesters, Nick Hanafin and Siana Fitzjohn who climbed aboard the oil rig COSL Prospector in the Cook Strait in 2020 and were subsequently prosecuted. The interview piqued my interest, as it got into the ...
Disrupting the bottle business – Jayden Klinac, Anew
This Climate Business - May 01, 2024 05:00 - 32 minutesIs another plastic bottle the way to disrupt the plastic bottle business? Jayden Klinac of Anew believes so. The Anew system builds on years of trying to find a sustainable, commercially viable plant-based, recyclable, compostable, cradle-to-cradle plastic packaging solution. Brave man. Vincen...
Unilever as B Corp - Why and what’s changed?
This Climate Business - April 16, 2024 22:00 - 38 minutesTwo years ago Unilever Australia-NZ became a B Corp. It was the first really large corporate, with household brands Surf and Persil, to join a scheme that’s been home to environmental hero brands such as EcoStore. Why did Unilever join? What did they discover in the process? And what impact has...
Climate Change Activism heads to the courts – Nick Chapman, Simpson Grierson
This Climate Business - April 09, 2024 21:30 - 23 minutesClimate change activism is everywhere: in politics, in business, on the streets and, increasingly, in the courts. Simpson Grierson’s Nick Chapman tells Ross Inglis what’s driving the movement towards climate change litigation and just where might it take us.
Electric Homes - Mike Casey, Rewiring Aotearoa
This Climate Business - March 27, 2024 06:30 - 46 minutesMike Casey is the CEO of Rewiring Aoteraoa, part of an international movement to accelerate the shift to a renewable, electric-powered economy. Rewiring’s first report is all about the electric home - think rooftop solar, heat pumps, EVs and so on. But Mike is also a horticulturist and a passion...
Disinformation exposed – Byron Clark and Mandy Henk
This Climate Business - March 25, 2024 04:00 - 40 minutesWhether it’s swallowing bleach to treat Covid or casting climate change as a Chinese conspiracy, disinformation takes nutty ideas from fringes and mainstreams them into our popular discourse. At best, it's hilarious - seen how windmills kill dolphins anyone? But mostly it's just sad and sometime...
A Sustainable Commute at a Discount – Connor Read, Workride
This Climate Business - March 12, 2024 04:15 - 15 minutesIf you’ve wanted to get yourself a discounted bicycle or scooter under something like the UK’s Cycle to Work Scheme, here’s the good news: you can. Ōtautahi Christchurch-based WorkRide now offers a national ride-to-work scheme that uses a Fringe Benefit Tax exemption to slice up to 63 percent of...
How to change carbon behaviour, big time - Ben Gleisner, Cogo
This Climate Business - February 21, 2024 13:00 - 33 minutesThe conscious consumer movement has an impact but it’s still small - a minority of people choose to change their behaviour. Imagine if you could make your carbon footprint your bank's problem. Imagine these large institutions, with millions of customers and insights into their spending, worry ab...
Copping flak: Rod Oram at COP28
This Climate Business - December 21, 2023 22:15 - 31 minutesThe United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed last week with a notable first: an agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. Not quite the phase out most countries had wanted, and reflective perhaps of the influence of petrostates, including the host Dubai. Indeed, the chair i...
Scope 4 and the new reporting - Dr Jodi York, Climate VC Fund, Kilara Capital
This Climate Business - December 11, 2023 13:00 - 18 minutesHeard of Scope 4? Us neither. If you thought Scope 3 emissions are hard to count and reduce then Scope 4 lifts the ambition yet again. Scope 4 or so-called avoided emissions ask businesses to create products that replace dirty ones and thereby avoid emissions – think renewables replacing gas or ...
The Kiwi Company taking the pain out of Climate Disclosure - Dougal Watt, ClimateTracker
This Climate Business - December 06, 2023 07:15 - 20 minutesClimate-related disclosures are on their way. Auckland-based ClimateTracker has cloud-based software that eases the compliance overhead and makes sense of the data. Co-founder and data architecture heavyweight Dougal Watt backgrounds the new era of climate disclosure and tells Ross Inglis it’s a...
Watts up with car charging in NZ? Stephanie Smits O’Callaghan, Hikotron
This Climate Business - November 27, 2023 13:00 - 27 minutesArmed with its own IP, Hamilton-based car charging innovator Hikotron is rolling out a national network of charge points. Ross Inglis asked co-founder Stephanie Smits O’Callaghan how Hikotron tackles the chicken-or-the-egg dilemma of building a network for a small but fast-growing market, how to...
Climate Leaders Coalition turns five – Jolie Hodson of Spark and Mike Burrell, SBC
This Climate Business - November 27, 2023 05:30 - 23 minutesThe Climate Leaders Coalition turned five years old. Its signatories, which include some of NZ’s largest polluters, are a group of 88 companies that have committed to climate agenda and they’ve notched up some impressive achievements. Collectively they’ve reduced emissions by 3.6 million tonnes,...
What’s behind the sunny spell in solar power? Matt Ward, solarZero
This Climate Business - November 16, 2023 13:00 - 45 minutesEvery 35 minutes solarZero installs a new residential solar system. It plans to invest $1 billion in new solar and battery systems over the next decade and already has 12,000 installations. It made headlines this time last year when it was acquired by Blackrock, the world’s largest investors. An...
Around the world in an ETS – Ian Parry, IMF
This Climate Business - November 06, 2023 21:00 - 20 minutesIan Parry is the Environmental Fiscal Policy Expert at the International Monetary Fund. He came to speak at a series of events in New Zealand about tax. It doesn’t get more exciting than that. But there’s more. Ian is a specialist in carbon pricing, emission trading schemes, and the role of fisc...
Will Auckland’s climate plan survive a change of government? Richard Hills & Parin Rafei-Thompson
This Climate Business - October 30, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutesHow is the Council progressing with Te Tāruke ā Tāwhiri, Auckland’s Climate Plan? In the three years since it was ratified, we’ve had Covid, a change in council, and now a change of government. Will it survive and how much progress has been made? We check in with its architects, councillor Richa...
Sustainability? We’ve got a Strategy for that
This Climate Business - October 24, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutesSustainability’s elevation into corporate strategy suggests it’s on its way to becoming integral to New Zealand businesses. But why are businesses writing sustainability strategies? What do they look like? And how often do they translate into real action? For answers, Ross Inglis talked with Va...
NZ’s Biggest ever Windfarm - Giacomo Caleffi, Taranaki Offshore Partnership
This Climate Business - October 18, 2023 08:45 - 31 minutesIn June this year, a new piece of equipment was anchored 37km off the coast of Pātea in the South Taranaki Bight. Called the Floating Light Detecting and Ranging device, FLiDAR will measure wind speeds at heights of up to 300m as a well as waves and currents to provide data critical for assessi...
Farming indoors - Darryn Keiller, Way Beyond
This Climate Business - October 09, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutesThe future of farming may be indoors. With eroding coastlines, droughts and unpredictable downpours, farming may be better done in controlled, indoor environments. Better for GHGs emissions too. We know that’s already happening for tomatoes and leafy greens – but what about large scale crops lik...
This Climate Business - Live! James Shaw, Sophie Handford, Alec Tang
This Climate Business - October 03, 2023 00:45 - 58 minutesHow does change happen? And what can we learn from political and community leaders? Vincent hosted a live event during the Auckland Climate Festival to learn how three experienced climate leaders crossed the chasm from intention to action: ● Sophie Hansford - School Strike 4 Climate founde...
Climate Investing: Panel Discussion from Auckland Climate Festival
This Climate Business - September 25, 2023 13:00 - 47 minutesWhat does climate change mean for investing - is it a disaster, creating havoc due to storms and ecosystem collapse and ultimately stranded assets? Or is there an upside, as companies discover new tech, new markets and new ways of working? It's probably both! Vincent spoke with Shannen Barns (...
Greening the Commercial Property Sector: Scott McKenzie, PMG Funds
This Climate Business - September 18, 2023 13:00 - 19 minutesCommercial property is more polluting that you might imagine. Twenty percent of New Zealand’s carbon emissions come from the property sector. What will it take to reduce those emissions? Scott McKenzie, CEO of Tauranga-based property investment firm PMG Funds, has a plan.
Are we there yet? Andrew Caseley of EECA on Sustainable Energy
This Climate Business - September 10, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutesAndrew Caseley is outgoing CEO of EECA, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority. He arrived in 2017 to launch a refreshed strategy and resigns as that piece of work concludes. Back then Judith Collins was Minster of Energy, there were 6000 EVs on the road and Bruno Mars was top of the ...
Mātauranga and Climate Change: Cornell Tukiri
This Climate Business - September 04, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutesCornell Tukiri is the senior Māori advisor for Tataki Auckland United and also for Climate Connect Aotearoa – a climate action accelerator by Tataki Auckland Unlimited. Cornell recently launched He Kete Mātauranga, a resource for climate and community leaders to learn more about Māori approaches...
Climate + Business: Antonia Burbidge & Rebecca Lowe
This Climate Business - August 30, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutesNext month is the biggest event on the corporate climate calendar, the Climate Change + Business conference by Environmental Defence Society, the Sustainable Business Council and Climate Leaders Coalition. You could say it’s the CCBC by the EDS and SBC and the CLC. On the agenda are the ETS, t...
Brianne West: from shampoo to fizzy drinks with no water (not much anyways)
This Climate Business - August 23, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutesIn Aotearoa New Zealand, we throw away a staggering 97 million single-use plastic drinks containers each year, with less than 7% of those ever getting recycled. Seems dumb especially when most of that drink is water. Brianne West is the founder of Ethique, the eco-beauty products business that ...
Investing in the transition - Jason Patrick, NZ Green Investment Finance
This Climate Business - July 24, 2023 19:00 - 31 minutesBack in May, the government injected another $300m into NZ Green Investment Finance – or NZGIF – taking the green bank’s investment pool to $700m. Starting in 2019 the bank has committed about $300m in 16 transactions to-date. Given the scale of the transition, why is it such a small sum and w...
The trouble with food - Emily King, author of Re-food
This Climate Business - July 17, 2023 22:45 - 41 minutesEmily King is the author of Re-food, a challenge to reimagine and reconstruct the food system in Aotearoa. It’s a timely book, with farmers and growers hit by extreme weather, food prices at record highs and a predominance of highly processed food at the expense of ingredients and wholefoods. Bu...
Recycling Farm Plastics: Neal Shaw, Plasback
This Climate Business - June 25, 2023 23:00 - 20 minutesWhat happens to all that silage baling wrap you see when you’re whizzing around the countryside? Until recently, nearly all New Zealand farmers burned or buried it. That’s changing, largely due to a company called Plasback. Neal Shaw, Plasback’s Commercial Manager, stepped Ross Inglis through th...
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