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Climate Leaders Coalition re-commits to ambitious climate action with new convenor
The Climate Leaders Coalition welcomes Genesis CEO Malcolm Johns as the Coalition’s new convenor, succeeding Spark CEO Jolie Hodson MNZM. Since 2018, the CEO-led Coalition, made up of 87 signatories and accounting for around 30 percent of New Zealand’s GDP, has helped...
![CLC Steering Group Convenor Jolie Hodson receives King’s Birthday Honours](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jolie.jpg)
CLC Steering Group Convenor Jolie Hodson receives King’s Birthday Honours
We are so proud to see Spark New Zealand CEO and CLC Steering Group Convenor Jolie Hodson recognised earlier this week in the King’s Birthday Honours, alongside many other incredible New Zealanders. Jolie, your leadership of the Climate Leaders Coalition has helped...
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CLC and SBC welcome inquiry into bipartisan adaptation framework
SBC and CLC welcome Friday’s announcement from Government around a bipartisan inquiry into an enduring climate adaptation framework for New Zealand, which is consistent with the recommendations we have made in our pre-election policy priorities paper. “Such a...
![Climate Leaders Coalition turns five – Jolie Hodson of Spark and Mike Burrell, SBC](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/This-Climate-Business.png)
Climate Leaders Coalition turns five – Jolie Hodson of Spark and Mike Burrell, SBC
The Climate Leaders Coalition turned five years old. Its signatories, which include some of NZ’s largest polluters, are a group of 88 companies that have committed to climate agenda and they’ve notched up some impressive achievements. Collectively they’ve reduced...
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![Synlait – Phase 1 of off-farm decarbonisation roadmap completed](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Synlait-logo-web-size.png)
Synlait – Phase 1 of off-farm decarbonisation roadmap completed
Synlait Milk Limited (Synlait) has completed two key projects, which sees the first phase of its
decarbonisation roadmap completed.
![Suncorp NZ on pace to meet new net zero goals](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Suncorp-logo-web-size.png)
Suncorp NZ on pace to meet new net zero goals
Suncorp New Zealand said that it is on track to meet the Suncorp Group’s new net zero targets, having achieved both its prior FY22 and FY30 targets (22% and 51% reduction, respectively) well ahead of schedule.
![Climate change: Huge implications for Ngāi Tahu with ‘managed retreat’](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Ngai-Tahu-Holdings-logo-web-size.png)
Climate change: Huge implications for Ngāi Tahu with ‘managed retreat’
Sunken cars, deluged houses and businesses, paddocks under water.
Images from last month’s flooding in Whakatū (Nelson) are still fresh in our minds.
500 homes were evacuated when the region received three times the average monthly rainfall in just five days. Thankfully, no-one died.
![Shaking it up: 5 ways The Warehouse is helping change getting from A to B](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/The-Warehouse-Group-logo-web-size.png)
Shaking it up: 5 ways The Warehouse is helping change getting from A to B
We know that to protect our planet we all must do our bit – making those little changes that can make a difference. It helps when The Warehouse Group is already trying hard to support everyday Kiwis with this, trialling initiatives and new innovations to see what impact they might have.
![Air New Zealand to fly on sustainable aviation fuel from next week](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Air-New-Zealand-logo-web-size.png)
Air New Zealand to fly on sustainable aviation fuel from next week
Air New Zealand plans to start flying its aircraft partly on sustainable aviation fuel made from recycled cooking oil and animal waste from next week.
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Silver Fern Farms – Moving more with less impact
Meat processor Silver Fern Farms is moving more animals over fewer kilometres, thanks to a digital real-time transport management system.
![Lion New Zealand reduces emissions by 10%, committed to carbon zero](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Lion-logo-web-size.png)
Lion New Zealand reduces emissions by 10%, committed to carbon zero
Lion New Zealand, Aotearoa’s largest alcohol beverages company, has reduced its carbon emissions by 10 per cent meeting its carbon emissions reduction commitments as part of its Toitū net carbonzero organisation certification
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Genesis launches new ‘roaming’ EV charging plan
Genesis has detailed a new approach to charging electric vehicles called EVerywhere, designed to make it cheaper and easier to charge your car away from home.
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A New Zealand-first in climate change action – 3R Group
A new waste management facility with the power to destroy climate change causing gases is set to be built in Aotearoa New Zealand for the first time.
![New Zealand’s largest climate conference set to catalyse the shift from climate ambition to action](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-square.png)
New Zealand’s largest climate conference set to catalyse the shift from climate ambition to action
The critical role of business in transitioning Aotearoa New Zealand to a zero-carbon economy will be centre stage in Tāmaki Makaurau next week at the largest Climate Change and Business Conference yet.
![NZ Green Building Council – $150 billion economic boost from lower carbon homes and buildings, reveals new report](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NZGBC-logo-web-size.png)
NZ Green Building Council – $150 billion economic boost from lower carbon homes and buildings, reveals new report
The New Zealand economy could receive a multi-billion dollar injection, totalling almost $150billion, if new homes and buildings are constructed to be less polluting, the very first study of its kind has found.
![Changing the future of Aotearoa’s infrastructure](https://climateleaderscoalition.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Downer-logo-web-size.png)
Changing the future of Aotearoa’s infrastructure
From slips in Wellington to flooding in Nelson, the realities of climate change are never far from the front page. And with the ongoing threat of rising sea levels, drought and bushfires, denying we’re on the brink of a climate emergency is no longer an option.