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Aviation Emissions are taking off: Economist Dr Paul Callister
When it comes to aviation emissions, New Zealand is far from clean and green. Economist Dr Paul Callister tells Ross Inglis that we are the world’s sixth highest per-capita aviation polluter, emissions are tracking the wrong way, and the sector’s plans to cut...
![What’s land for anyway? Geoff Simmons chief economist, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/This-Climate-Business-Podcast-Channel-Cover-3000x3000-1-1080x675.jpg)
What’s land for anyway? Geoff Simmons chief economist, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
You’d be hiding under a rock if you haven’t noticed that there’s fierce disagreement about the growth of pine plantations on rural New Zealand. On the one hand, we need fast growing permanent forests to act as carbon sinks. Lots and lots if we’re meet our net zero...
![Busting the Bikes and Business Myth – Karen Hormann, Bike Auckland](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Karen-Hormann-crop-1-1080x675.jpg)
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Busting the Bikes and Business Myth – Karen Hormann, Bike Auckland
So businesses love parking and hate cycleways. Or do they? Bike Auckland chair Karen Hormann tells Ross Inglis about a new campaign that tackles a lopsided narrative about commerce and cycling. Listen to the Podcast Here:
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The big picture on food waste – Kaitlin Dawson and Iain Lees-Galloway
We know that about a third of food is wasted. If global food waste was a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind only China and the USA. No one believes it’s a good idea. So why does it keep happening? And who’s in charge of this...
![Sustainability Reporting is here. How should Kiwi Businesses respond?](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/This-Climate-Business-Podcast-Channel-Cover-3000x3000-1-1080x675.jpg)
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Sustainability Reporting is here. How should Kiwi Businesses respond?
There’s a fast-growing thicket of regulations and trade agreements standing between corporate New Zealand and its overseas markets. This emerging landscape has been mapped out by law firm Chapman Tripp in Protecting New Zealand’s Competitive Advantage, a report for...
![Is civil disobedience effective? David Williams, Newsroom](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/David-Williams.webp)
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Is civil disobedience effective? David Williams, Newsroom
David Williams is a journalist with Newsroom. He recently interviewed Extinction Rebellion protesters, Nick Hanafin and Siana Fitzjohn who climbed aboard the oil rig COSL Prospector in the Cook Strait in 2020 and were subsequently prosecuted. The interview piqued my...
![Disrupting the bottle business – Jayden Klinac, Anew](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PreviewImage-Jayden-Klinac-1080x675.jpg)
![Disrupting the bottle business – Jayden Klinac, Anew](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PreviewImage-Jayden-Klinac-1080x675.jpg)
Disrupting the bottle business – Jayden Klinac, Anew
Jayden Klinac of Anew believes so. The Anew system builds on years of trying to find a sustainable, commercially viable plant-based, recyclable, compostable, cradle-to-cradle plastic packaging solution. Brave man. Vincent spoke to Jayden ahead of his talk at the Spark...
![Unilever as B Corp – Why and what’s changed?](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PreviewImage_Cam-and-Andrew-1080x675.jpg)
![Unilever as B Corp – Why and what’s changed?](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PreviewImage_Cam-and-Andrew-1080x675.jpg)
Unilever as B Corp – Why and what’s changed?
Two years ago Unilever Australia-NZ became a B Corp. It was the first really large corporate, with household brands Surf and Persil, to join a scheme that’s been home to environmental hero brands such as EcoStore. Why did Unilever join? What did they discover in the...
![Climate Change Activism heads to the courts – Nick Chapman, Simpson Grierson](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PreviewImage_NickChapman-v1-1080x675.jpg)
![Climate Change Activism heads to the courts – Nick Chapman, Simpson Grierson](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PreviewImage_NickChapman-v1-1080x675.jpg)
Climate Change Activism heads to the courts – Nick Chapman, Simpson Grierson
Climate change activism is everywhere: in politics, in business, on the streets and, increasingly, in the courts. Simpson Grierson’s Nick Chapman tells Ross Inglis what’s driving the movement towards climate change litigation and just where might it take us. Listen to...
![Electric Homes – Mike Casey, Rewiring Aotearoa](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mike-Casey-1080x675.jpeg)
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Electric Homes – Mike Casey, Rewiring Aotearoa
Mike Casey is the CEO of Rewiring Aoteraoa, part of an international movement to accelerate the shift to a renewable, electric-powered economy. Rewiring’s first report is all about the electric home - think rooftop solar, heat pumps, EVs and so on. But Mike is also a...
![Disinformation exposed – Byron Clark and Mandy Henk](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Byron-Clark.png)
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Disinformation exposed – Byron Clark and Mandy Henk
Whether it’s swallowing bleach to treat Covid or casting climate change as a Chinese conspiracy, disinformation takes nutty ideas from fringes and mainstreams them into our popular discourse. At best, it's hilarious - seen how windmills kill dolphins anyone? But...
![A Sustainable Commute at a Discount – Connor Read, Workride](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Connor_Workride-featurecrop-1-1080x675.jpg)
![A Sustainable Commute at a Discount – Connor Read, Workride](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Connor_Workride-featurecrop-1-1080x675.jpg)
A Sustainable Commute at a Discount – Connor Read, Workride
If you’ve wanted to get yourself a discounted bicycle or scooter under something like the UK’s Cycle to Work Scheme, here’s the good news: you can. Ōtautahi Christchurch-based WorkRide now offers a national ride-to-work scheme that uses a Fringe Benefit Tax exemption...
![How to change carbon behaviour, big time – Ben Gleisner, Cogo](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CoGoco-founderBenGleisner-web.jpeg)
![How to change carbon behaviour, big time – Ben Gleisner, Cogo](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CoGoco-founderBenGleisner-web.jpeg)
How to change carbon behaviour, big time – Ben Gleisner, Cogo
The conscious consumer movement has an impact but it’s still small - a minority of people choose to change their behaviour. Imagine if you could make your carbon footprint your bank's problem. Imagine these large institutions, with millions of customers and insights...
![Copping flak: Rod Oram at COP28](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Rod-Oram.jpeg)
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Copping flak: Rod Oram at COP28
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed last week with a notable first: an agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. Not quite the phase out most countries had wanted, and reflective perhaps of the influence of petrostates, including the host...
![Scope 4 and the new reporting – Dr Jodi York, Climate VC Fund, Kilara Capital](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Jodi-York-1000x675.jpg)
![Scope 4 and the new reporting – Dr Jodi York, Climate VC Fund, Kilara Capital](https://www.podcasts.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Jodi-York-1000x675.jpg)
Scope 4 and the new reporting – Dr Jodi York, Climate VC Fund, Kilara Capital
Heard of Scope 4? Us neither. If you thought Scope 3 emissions are hard to count and reduce then Scope 4 lifts the ambition yet again. Scope 4 or so-called avoided emissions ask businesses to create products that replace dirty ones and thereby avoid emissions – think...
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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.
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