Latest Zero emissions Podcast Episodes
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...
The sustainability journey of a scaffolding company with roots in the petrochemical sector – Paul Cunningham, Cunningham Construction
This Climate Business - June 20, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutesTaranaki-based scaffolding and rigging company Cunningham Construction has deep roots in the petrochemical sector. It’s also on a journey towards sustainability. Managing Director Paul Cunningham talked to Ross Inglis through the why and the how of doing business differently.
Reporting on progress – Mike Murphy and Nick Morrison on Kōkako Coffee
This Climate Business - June 13, 2023 01:15 - 32 minutesIt’s hard running a small business. It’s harder running a small business that takes it’s environmental and social responsibility serisously. And it’s suepr hard then auditing that effort and publishing it for all to see. Kōkako Coffee recently published its fourth sustainbility report – presenti...
Getting rid of cling film: Jon Reed, Compostic
This Climate Business - June 04, 2023 17:00 - 30 minutesYou will know about cling film. Perhaps you wrapped your lunch in it this morning. Or you’ve seen swaths of it used to wrap suitcases at the airport. It’s ubiquitous and it’s pernicious. Jon Reed certainly thinks so and has created Compostic, a plant-based alternative that as the label says deco...
Comvita - David Banfield
This Climate Business - May 28, 2023 21:00 - 39 minutesComvita is a publicly listed mānuka honey specialist – the OG of mānuka money if you like. For a moment it was a sharemarket darling peaking in 2015 but since then languishing as it posted losses and a stockpile of product it couldn’t shift. Enter David Banfield in 2020. A spectacular financial ...
Carbon, trees and seaweed - Finn Ross, CarbonZ
This Climate Business - May 23, 2023 03:00 - 27 minutesFinn Ross is a young guy on a mission. He’s completing a PhD on seaweed carbon sequestration, he’s also co-founder of CarbonZ, a company offering voluntary carbon credits based on the restoration and planting of native trees on New Zealand farmland. He’s the son of entrepreneurs Geoff and Justin...
The Big Business Alternative to Landfill: Joe Youssef - All Heart NZ
This Climate Business - May 14, 2023 16:00 - 24 minutesA framework for any corporate, anywhere, to divert anything from landfill. That’s the promise from Auckland-based social enterprise All Heart NZ. Ross Inglis asked the irrepressible Joe Youssef, the company’s founder and Chief Encourager, how it does it.
Taking on the Plastic Building Wrap Challenge
This Climate Business - April 30, 2023 13:00 - 16 minutesWhat happens to all those acres of white plastic wrap that protect building sites? Ross Inglis talks with two people who know: Too much of it goes to landfill, and they’re doing something about it. In this episode: Tina Wieczorek (right) is the CEO of the industry organisation Scaffolding, Acce...
Yes, there’s a better way to Recycle Plastics: Rui Peng, Critical
This Climate Business - April 22, 2023 12:00 - 20 minutesConventional plastics recycling is fussy: it can handle only four of the 24 types of plastic, and even those have to be clean. Here’s the story of Auckland-based social enterprise Critical, which uses proprietary technology to turn a wide range of waste plastics, including more contaminated ones...
A second life for our throw-away clothing: Jeff Vollebregt, Upparel
This Climate Business - April 05, 2023 13:00 - 22 minutesNew Zealanders on average throw out textiles equivalent to 200 t-shirts every year. Finding a new home for all those garments is the mission of Australasian textiles recycler Upparel. Jeff Vollebregt, director of Upparel’s New Zealand operation talked Ross Inglis through the business of circular...
Harbour bridges! Potholes! Light Rail! – with Paul Winton
This Climate Business - April 03, 2023 13:00 - 20 minutesThe transport sector has experienced its share of drama this year, starting with Cyclone Gabrielle wiping out so many roads and bridges across the north island. The cyclone was blamed for a sudden change in the direction in government policy. Back in February, Minister Michael Woods announced a...
What the heck just happened to the carbon market? Dr Christina Hood
This Climate Business - March 26, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutesLast week the quarterly auction for carbon credits hit a remarkable snag: it failed to meet the clearing price. This means none of the 4.5 million carbon permits on offer were sold. The failed auction was attributed to Cabinet’s decision to allow more credits to be issued, in an attempt to keep ...
A decade of B-Corp. Now what? Qiulae Wong, NZ manager of B Lab
This Climate Business - March 17, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutesIt's 10 years since the first companies were certified as B-Corp in New Zealand and since then the movement of ethical and environmentally responsible businesses has grown to over 500 in NZ and Australia and more than 6000 worldwide. But growing pains are emerging as the movement shifts from cut...
How food growers can think about climate change: Brent Clothier
This Climate Business - March 02, 2023 05:15 - 15 minutesIf the rain that deluged the North Island is the ‘new normal’, how are hard-hit growers meant to think about the future – and growing anything in the ‘normal’ way? Vincent Heeringa spoke to Brent Clothier, chief scientist with Plant & Food, about four ways to think about growing food in a war...
Making sense of Auckland’s floods – Kevin Trenberth, Climate Scientist
This Climate Business - February 20, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutesHow can we make sense of the Biblical deluge that soaked Auckland, Northland, and the Coromandel in late January – and by the time this is being recorded is about to happen again. If only there was an articulate, slow-talking climate scientist who could explain what hell just happened. Oh, wai...
A Constructive Use for Building Waste – With Nigel Benton and Terri-Ann Berry
This Climate Business - February 14, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutesBuilding a new house in New Zealand produces on average two skips of construction debris. If a demolition is involved, added another 13 skips. As a nation, we’re really bad at diverting all that waste from landfill. Ross Inglis spoke with two people with a solution: property developer Nigel Ben...
What’s in store for 2023? Investment with Rohan MacMahon
This Climate Business - February 06, 2023 22:00 - 16 minutesPart Three: Rohan MacMahon on investment and technology Is 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the election, with a potential change of government, have on the direction and speed of climate policy? T...
What’s in store for 2023? Corporate strategy with Dr Victoria Hatton
This Climate Business - February 03, 2023 19:30 - 16 minutesPart two: Victoria Hatton on corporate strategy Is 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the election, with a potential change of government, have on the direction and speed of climate policy? To shed s...
What’s in store for 2023? Climate politics with Marc Daalder
This Climate Business - February 01, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutesPart One: Marc Daalder starts with the year ahead in politics. Is 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the election, with a potential change of government, have on the direction and speed of climate pol...
A climate action accelerator for Auckland - Climate Connect Aotearoa
This Climate Business - December 06, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutesAuckland’s climate plan Te-Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri is an impressive and ambitious document that sets out a response to climate change that’s not just about mitigation (that is, emissions reductions) but also adaptation and developing a future that’s unique to Tāmaki Makaurau. Sarah Anderson and Parin R...
Growing food in a hotter NZ – Jenny Cameron, Fit for a Better World
This Climate Business - November 12, 2022 22:00 - 36 minutesThe primary sector has been in the gun lately for its reluctance to resolve its emissions profile. You’d almost think there’s some denial going on. Well, that might be true of some, but not all. In 2021 a broad industry effort went into a primary sector document called Fit for a Better World. Th...
Follow the climate money – Climate VC Fund
This Climate Business - October 25, 2022 12:00 - 49 minutesRohan MacMahon and Jez Weston are co-founders of the Climate VC Fund – a fund that invest in emission reductions technologies in NZ and Australia. They were on the show to announce their ambitions but a year on, what’s happened? Did they raise the money require? Have they invested in anything? W...
The End of Smoke on the Water? Michael Eaglen, EV Maritime
This Climate Business - October 17, 2022 19:00 - 30 minutesAuckland’s ferries, which burn 13 million litres of diesel every year and produce 20 percent of the city’s public transport emissions, are about to clean up their act. Two electric ferries are being built right now for the Waitematā, with design and engineering in the hands of ambitious zero-emi...
Super Clean, Super Green – Cleanery’s Mark and Ellie Sorenson
This Climate Business - October 10, 2022 13:00 - 47 minutesIn 1993, school boy Mark Sorenson got 20/20 for an essay about the dangers of plastic packaging. 29 years later Mark and his business partner and wife, Ellie, have established Cleanery, a kiwi start-up that’s attracted millions in venture capital and now has products ranged across NZ and Austral...
Why, what and who of Auckland Climate Festival - Michelle Kennedy
This Climate Business - September 30, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutesMichelle Kennedy is the co-founder of the Auckland Climate Festival, a celebration of all things climate change, ranging from bike tours to investor meetings, beach clean-up, a transport tech conference, film screenings, and the O Tatou Ngahere native trees conference – and so much more. Michell...
Going nuts for bananas: Simon Coley of All Good and Karma Drinks
This Climate Business - September 25, 2022 19:30 - 37 minutesSimon Coley is the co-founder of All Good Organics, the pioneering importer of ethical bananas, and also of Karma Drinks, famous for its Karma Cola. Karma just celebrated 10 years, a notable achievement for any brand, but especially noteworthy because 1% of total revenues goes back to the Karma...
Climate and Business Conference: Mike Burrell, Sustainable Business Council
This Climate Business - September 14, 2022 09:00 - 16 minutesNext week sees the return of the Climate and Business conference, New Zealand’s most important get-together for government, business, and community leaders about climate policy and action. This Climate Business is pleased to be invited to the conference and to talk about it - Vincent was joined...
Facing the food challenge: Peter Wren-Hilton, 2035 Oceania Summit
This Climate Business - September 12, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes2035 Oceania Summit is an ambitious event combining the food, agriculture, and tech sectors to address the impact of climate change on food. Held in Auckland 10-11 October the summit will feature delegations from the US, Australia, and the Pacific Islands and includes a keynote address from Ka...
A Greener kind of Grass: The Lawnmowing Franchise Operator that went Electric
This Climate Business - August 22, 2022 21:00 - 12 minutesIf Waikato-based lawnmowing franchise LawnRite has anything to do with it, petrol-powered garden equipment is on the way out. It has replaced its mowers, trimmers, and even a concrete mixer with battery-powered versions, and it charges those batteries with solar panels fixed to its trailers. Law...
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