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Is the Climate Change Commission ambitious enough?
The NZ Climate Change Commission released its landmark report late January. The 650-page discussion document sets an agenda for how New Zealand could achieve GHG emissions reductions to align with our international obligations, such as the Paris Agreement, and achieve...
What is Project Drawdown? With Rohan MacMahon
Welcome to Climate Briefs, the summer series for This Climate Business. I ask a simple question, our experts give a succinct answer. Because in the end everyone likes a tight brief, right? This week I ask Rohan MacMahon about Project Drawdown; the most comprehensive...
What is climate justice? With Jo Spratt, director with Oxfam NZ
Welcome to Climate Briefs, the summer series for This Climate Business. I ask a simple question, our experts give a succinct answer. Because in the end everyone likes a tight brief, right? This week I ask Jo Spratt of Oxfam NZ to explain climate justice. Not everyone...
Who cares about methane? With Eloise Gibson, Stuff.co.nz
Welcome to Climate Briefs, the summer series for This Climate Business. I ask a simple question, our experts give a succinct answer. Because in the end everyone likes a tight brief, right? This week I ask Eloise Gibson, climate change editor of Stuff, to explain the...
What is climate finance? With Alex Jonston, Oxfam NZ
Welcome to Climate Briefs, the summer series for This Climate Business. I ask a simple question, our experts give a succinct answer. Because in the end everyone likes a tight brief, right? This week I ask Alex Johnston of Oxfam NZ to explain climate finance – the...
What is shareholder activism? By Barry Coates, Mindful Money
Welcome to Climate Briefs, the summer series for This Climate Business. I ask a simple question, our experts give a succinct answer. Because in the end everyone likes a tight brief, right? This week I ask Barry Coates of Mindful Money to explain shareholder activism...
Auckland’s Transport Emissions Challenge: Shane Ellison, CEO, Auckland Transport
The Auckland Climate Plan sets a target of reducing GHG emissions by half by 2030. Now, we know that largest single chunk of Auckland’s emissions – that’s 37% - comes from land transport. So to achieve that bold...
Jacinda declares climate emergency! So what does that actually mean?
Last week NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Adern declared a Climate Emergency. In Parliament she said: “This declaration is an acknowledgment of the next generation … of the burden that they will carry if we do not get this right and do not take action now.” The declaration...
Replace the plastic bag with a better bag! Kate Bezar, The Better Packaging Company
The Better Packaging Company does just what you think it should: makes plastic packaging that’s compostable in your own backyard. Starting with replacing those awful one-use plastic courier bags, the company now offers alternatives to plastic gloves, gift wrap, sticky...
Why do more women (than men) choose ethical investment? John Berry, Pathfinder Asset Management
More women than men choose ethical investments. Why? John Berry is the founder and CEO of Pathfinder Asset Management, an investment fund and manager of Caresaver, an ethical Kiwsaver plan launched last year. Pathfinder believes that doing good pays better bucks. That...
Hey Jacinda: it’s time to walk your talk on climate action. Russel Norman, Greenpeace
With a mandate to rule and all the tools in place, this Labour government has everything it needs reduce New Zealand’s emissions. So, what’s the hold up? Patience child warns Russel executive director of Greenpeace Aotearoa, a former Green party co-leader and two term...
The outrageous waste of food: Deborah Manning, Kiwi Harvest
Every year New Zealand food industry sends 103,000 tonnes of food waste to landfill. Some 60% of that food going to landfill is edible. Burying food (often in its plastic and foil packaging) is an environmental disaster. It needlessly contributes to greenhouse gas...
How to Stop Owning a Stupid Metal Box: Erik Zydervelt, Mevo
Are you sick of owning an expensive, polluting metal box called a car? Me too. Mine sits in the garage taking up real estate and costing me bomb in maintenance and registeration. Is car sharing a better alternative? The idea is simple: use an app to pick up one of the...
Labour’s Big Mandate: here’s how they should use it. Gary Taylor, Environmental Defence Society
Few names have been associated longer with conservation and environmental protest than Gary Taylor. The executive director of the Environmental Defence Society has taken on mining companies, property tycoons, governments and even fellow conservationists with the...
Is Sheep and Beef Farming already Carbon Neutral? Possibly, Dr Brad Case, AUT
Here’s a surprise for you. It’s possible that sheep and beef farms could already be net carbon neutral in NZ. According to a new report, sheep and beef farms hold 17% of NZ’s forests - or more technically 17% of NZ’s woody vegetation. On the most generous estimates,...
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