Westpac NZ is the first New Zealand bank to make a new sustainability learning programme available to all employees. Westpac GM Product, Sustainability & Marketing, Sarah Hearn, says helping employees to become more knowledgeable about sustainability means they’ll...
It’s a little bit brighter today as the first 26 of The Warehouse Group’s stores and sites, including The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming and Torpedo7, across Northland, Auckland and Waikato, are now enjoying the power of the sun.
Ravensdown has built a lime rock storage facility in rural Geraldine that will reduce the site’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60% – equivalent to taking 250 cars off the road.
Toitū Envirocare Chief Executive Teressa Betty (Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga) is leading an $18 million business transformation to speed up Aotearoa New Zealand’s carbon emissions reduction by making Toitū’s programmes more accessible.
Global renewable energy infrastructure developer, Harmony Energy Limited has entered a joint venture with First Renewables Limited, part of New Zealand energy group Clarus (formerly Firstgas Group), to develop and own Tauhei Solar Farm. At the time of commissioning in...
On the 16th of January 2024, the TNFD announced the inaugural cohort of Early Adopters, including Lyttelton Port. These are organisations (report preparers) which intend to start making disclosures aligned with the TNFD Recommendations in their corporate reporting by...
Auckland Transport is rolling out an initiative allowing companies to subsidise public transport journeys for their staff. An Auckland Transport (AT) spokeswoman said the Fareshare initiative had been trialled with five companies over the past three years, but it was...
Genesis and joint venture partner, FRV Australia, have completed the financial close on their 63 MW solar farm to be built at Lauriston on the Canterbury Plains. The joint venture also signed a 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Genesis Energy who will take...
Fonterra has recently commissioned its first high temperature heat pump and solar thermal plant combination at the Fonterra Brands New Zealand Palmerston North manufacturing site, where much of the fresh white milk for the North Island is produced.
Genesis and joint venture partner, FRV Australia, have completed the financial close on their 63 MW solar farm to be built at Lauriston on the Canterbury Plains.
Fonterra’s Waitoa manufacturing site is now using around 50% less coal as its new wood biomass boiler swings into action. Waitoa is the third Fonterra manufacturing site to reduce coal use this year, as part of the Co-op’s plan to reduce its Scope 1&2 emissions by...
Over the next few years, the first two fully electric and two electric-hybrid ferries will be joining AT’s ferry fleet as it works to provide low emission public transport across its network. By 2030, Auckland is set to have the largest electric ferry fleet in the...