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Tackling Building Waste – Dr Teri-Ann Berry
Each year, the construction and demolition industry creates 1.7 million tonnes of waste – making up 60% of total landfills. So much of that waste is recoverable, recyclable, and unnecessary. No one cares more about solving that problem than Dr. Terri-Ann Berry,...
IPCC Report part 3 – The insider’s guide, with Professor Dave Frame
This week Vincent is joined by Professor Dave Frame, Director of the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute (CCRI) at Victoria University and a lead author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the...
Streets Ahead – Dr Kirsty Wild, University of Auckland
In more than 150 cities around the world, Covid 19 has been what you might call a shot in the arm for walking and cycling. To encourage social distancing, they added cycleways, extended footpaths, and replaced parking...
Building for Zero – Andrew Eagles, Green Building Council
Buildings are responsible for around 20 percent of New Zealand’s carbon footprint. Which makes the building sector a critical part of the ambition to be net-zero by 2050. And yet our homes are notoriously damp, cold, and energy inefficient. And get this, the...
Live from COP26 – Olivia Wannan, Stuff
Olivia Wannan is one of a handful of New Zealand journalists to attend COP26 in Glasgow, rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful to watch as the world’s climate policy is argued and hopefully agreed to....
E-Biking On a Roll – Mike Tritt, Electrify NZ
If you think you're seeing more e-bikes on the roads, you're not wrong. In New Zealand, their sales are soaring. But it wasn't always this way; the e-bike revolution started with motivated people and, in this country, one of the early movers was Mike Tritt, a former...
James Shaw’s rotten week – with Dr David Hall and Dr Victoria Hatton
Last week Climate Change Minister James Shaw’s announcement was met with stinging criticism. Generation Zero said it was a ‘disgrace’. Forest&Bird described it as a ‘clear lack of policy’. Newsroom’s Marc Daalder called it ‘disappointment’. So what’s all this...
Hydrogen at the docks – Rosie Mercer, Ports of Auckland
How do you kickstart New Zealand’s hydrogen fuel network? Enter Ports of Auckland. It is one of the world’s first ports to open a hydrogen refuelling facility, the first stage in an ambitious plan that will eventually see the ports running on green hydrogen...
Rethinking Suburbia with Climate Change Editor – Eloise Gibson, Stuff
Suburbs are the invention of another era. Far flung from the city centre, removed from places of work and largely made of stand-alone houses, suburbs could only have happened thanks to the motorcar. But with transport our second largest GHG emitter, it’s time to...
Remodelling Meal Kits – MenuAid’s Toby Skilton
If your family is like Vincent’s, then you’ll love meal kits but hate the packaging –polystyrene meat trays, foil bags and more plastic wrap than a Grey Lynn building site. Is there a way to get the convenience of a meal kit with the discernment of a sustainable...
The Love Oat – Morgan Maw, Boring Oat Milk
New Zealand grows great oats and makes excellent oat milk, in Sweden. Yes NZ oats are shipped to Sweden where they are processed and returned to our shores to be bottled and sold as NZ-made. That hardly seems the sustainable alternative we all hope for. The madness of...
Vote Climate! The Team Aiming for the Vector Board, via Entrust
Coming up: an election you probably won’t vote in for an entity you’ve probably not heard of. That’s right, it’s the tri-annual vote for the Entrust board, the majority shareholder of Vector Energy, Auckland’s electrical lines company. But wait, before you turn over...
IPCC Report part 3 – The insider’s guide, with Professor Dave Frame
This week Vincent is joined by Professor Dave Frame, Director of the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute (CCRI) at Victoria University and a lead author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is the third...
IPCC Report: Rod Oram on business laggards and leaders
This week, Vincent asks Rod Oram to explain the implications of the latest IPCC report for business. Does the stark reality set out in the report change what’s required of the business sector? Or does it simply reinforce what’s already happening? How exactly is...
Unpacking the IPCC with Dr Victoria Hatton, Marc Daalder
Why has the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) –said human influence on climate is now unequivocable? Didn’t we already know that? And what impact will this report have in the run up to COP26? Vincent was joined by Marc Daalder,...
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