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Climate change, health and Pasifika Resilience
What does climate change mean for our health, and who bears the greatest burden? Michelle Isles, Chief Executive Officer of the Climate and Health Alliance, talks with Vicktoria Blake about climate and health justice, and reflects on conversations with Pacific...
A Better Way to Move – Tim Adriaansen, All Aboard
What would a greener, safer, more efficient transport system look like? What would it take to build one right across New Zealand? Transport advocacy group All Aboard has a plan; executive director Tim Adriaansen steps Ross Inglis through it. ...
Hope for practitioners – Suzy Giles and Fiona Stephenson
Communicating sustainability has become a hard task thanks to the change in politics and effects of economic headwinds. But somebody's got to do it. Suzy Giles and Fiona Stephenson are sustainability comms experts both of whom have contributed to a new book about the...
What does an economist actually do, and what can economics tell us about climate change?
In this episode of This Climate Business, Vicktoria Blake talks with Shamubeel Eaqub, Chief Economist at Simplicity, about how economists make sense of the world and why climate change is increasingly an economic issue, not just an environmental one....
The Sustainable Last Mile: Liam Harrison, Pedals Couriers
Dunedin's Pedals Couriers is the last-mile specialist that delivers anything up to a 65-kilogram beer keg entirely by bicycle. Founder Liam Harrison tells Ross Inglis what it's like to run a service business predicated on sustainability. ...
Kate Meyer: Making Environmental Impact Visible
What if products carried environmental labels as familiar and useful as nutrition facts? Dr. Kate Meyer, Founder and CEO of the Planetary Accounting Network, believes better information can lead to better decisions. Through Planetary Facts, she and her team are...
Going Solar: One Couple’s experience – Mark Graham
What happens when you stop thinking about putting solar panels on your roof and actually do it? Auckland's Mark Graham has just done it and he tells Ross Inglis that it's surprisingly straightforward.
Sarah Bogle: From Climate Risk to Climate Resilience
As climate impacts become more visible across Aotearoa, the question is no longer whether we adapt, but how....
Moods, swings and wins! Welcome new host, Vicktoria Blake
Climate wins and climate losses - how are we feeling about it all? Vincent and Ross discuss the state of climate action with new host Vicktoria Blake, a climate professional specialising in the health sector and who has a long and impressive pedigree in climate...
Land, data & decision-making – Rebecca Mills, Lever room
Imagine being able to bring climate into long-term financial forecasts - not just this year but 100-years ahead. Canopi is the latest climate tool to come from the climate powerhouse Lever Room. Rebecca Mills is the founder of Lever Room, a strategy and technology...
Australian biodiversity on the march – Ben Symons, Climate Friendly
Vincent attended the Sustainability Business Live conference in Melbourne recently and met an impressive array of experts and entrepreneurs from Australia and New Zealand - all chasing what one speaker called the triumph of the transition. In the next few episodes...
The coming boom in biodiversity credits – Louise Aitken and Erik van Eyndhoven
Biodiversity credits remain somewhat the holy grail in conservation. Imagine being paid to manage nature - not for farming or mining or fishing - but simply for being, nature. Yet like the holy grail, the promise outshines the reality. Carbon credits have struggled to m...
Food fighters – politics and food with Jack Bobo
Jack Bobo is a food futurist and keynote speaker at E Tipu New Zealand Future Food and Fibre Summit. He argues the food system’s hardest problem after climate is social. We all disagree about what food is, how it should be grown and how it should be distributed. It...
Healing the Oil Junkie – Transport Mode Shift in NZ – Kirsten Corson
Sustainable transport advocate Kirsten Corson tells Ross Inglis that the war on Iran both exposes our dependence on imported oils and offers an opportunity to move away from them.
NZ’s Climate Performance, Seen from the Outside – John Lang
Wondering how well we are doing with cutting emissions? London-based climate communicator John Lang runs the ruler over NZ's performance and offers Ross Inglis a take on the maturity of the climate debate here, why institutions matter more when governments duck their...
This Climate Business is the podcast about turning the climate crisis into an opportunity. We talk to entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and advocates about what they’re doing to solve the climate crisis and get us down to zero emissions by 2050 – or sooner!
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The co-founder of magazines like Unlimited, Idealog and Good and former chair of the Science Media Centre, he now consults to ethical and clean-tech companies and is marketing director for a VC fund.
He kills pot-plants by mistake, refuses to eat fish by choice and rides an e-bike like a wide-eyed fool.
Ross Inglis
A corporate communications professional with far too many years of experience in telecommunications and networking, Ross freelances from his base in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, pedals an analogue bicycle and gets happily distracted by Gimblett Gravels reds and anything to do with sustainability.
Vicktoria Blake
Vicktoria works where climate change, human health and organisational resilience collide, helping complex systems make sense of a warming world. With experience in sustainability strategy, climate risk and behaviour change, she’s known for turning big challenges into practical action.
Based in Pōneke, she balances stubborn optimism with strong coffee, ambitious renovation projects and getting happily lost in a good book.