NZ's Emissions reduction plan heads to court - Jessica Palairet, Lawyers for Climate Action NZ
If you reckon our national strategy for reducing emissions is short on ambition, Jessica Palairet agrees. Jessica heads Lawyers for Climate Action which, together with the Environmental Law Initiative...
23 Jul 202517min
The Next Wave - Dr Kate Prendergast and James Griffin
What does it take to build a globally significant clean tech or sustainability innovation from New Zealand? To answer that, you’d be best to talk those already doing it right? That’s exactly what the ...
15 Jul 202524min
Dairy Done Differently - Brendan Haigh, Miraka
New Zealand's dairy sector has an awful environmental record, but what if we decided to do dairy differently? Iwi-owned Miraka is figuring out how to produce lower-emissions export dairy based on the ...
10 Jul 202518min
A new biodiversity credit - Sean Weaver and Helen Hughes
In June, the government announced nine pilots to trial a voluntary nature credits scheme - the closest so far to a biodiversity credit. Led by Act MP and Associate Minister for the Environment Andrew ...
26 Jun 202543min
Dental as anything - Laura Nixon, Solid
Everyone’s got an idea for a business at some point in their life. Laura Nixon did something about it. A hygienist, troubled by the volume of plastic waste in the dental sector, Laura founded Solid, w...
18 Jun 202527min
Why is Zespri trialling biochar?
Biochar is a much-touted but rarely used carbon-rich material derived from organic waste, great for soil health. Kind of like charcoal it’s the result of slow, anaerobic burning. But it has not yet b...
22 Mai 202530min
Why ESG boxes on and on: Lee Stewart, ESG Strategies
Lee Stewart has written the book on sustainable business...No, actually, he really has! He’s written the e handbook ‘How to build sustainability into your business strategy’ for managers across Austra...
9 Mai 202535min
Climate Disclosures: Onerous and Expensive, or Far-Sighted - Dr. Yinka Moses, Victoria University
New Zealand was an early mover in corporate climate disclosure; these days around 200 of our largest companies publicly report on what they’re doing about their emissions and the risk they’re exposed ...
16 Apr 202531min
