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Climate Leadership Insights: The B Team Australasia
Lynette Mayne, Executive Chair of The B Team Australasia, recently visited Aotearoa New Zealand for the launch of the Climate Leaders Coalition’s new Statement of Ambition and refreshed strategy. In this Q&A, Lynette shares insights into the work of The B Team...
Climate Leaders Coalition launches next chapter
The Climate Leaders Coalition (CLC) is this morning unveiling a new Statement of Ambition and refreshed Strategy, marking the next step in business-led climate action in New Zealand – just as COP30 concludes in Belém.
SBC Hot Seat with Shannil Varma (CLC Manager)
This week, we've got Shannil Varma, Manager of the Climate Leaders Coalition (CLC), in the hot seat. Shannil's role sits within the Climate and Nature team at SBC (which is the secretariat organisation for CLC), and he oversees all the day-to-day operations and...
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...
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Meridian completes Ruakākā Battery Energy Storage System
Meridian Energy have opened the Ruakākā Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), NZ’s first large-scale grid battery. The $186m battery has a maximum output of 1000MW and a storage capacity of 200MWh,...
Contact trials innovative solution to enhance EV charging
Contact Energy is piloting an EV Demand Flex Programme to ease pressure on the national electricity grid. With more than 82,500 electric vehicles and 37,300 plug-in hybrids in NZ, charging puts a...
Fonterra announces next steps in move out of coal
Fonterra has officially opened the first electrode boiler at its Edendale site, and announced further plans to progress decarbonisation at its Southern most site. The Co-operative will invest a...
EECA and Centre for Sustainable Finance partner to unlock private capital for clean energy
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) and Centre for Sustainable Finance: Toitū Tahua (CSF) have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate private investment in New Zealand’s...
Genesis opens New Zealand’s largest solar farm in Canterbury
Genesis and joint venture partner FRV Australia have opened the country's largest solar farm to date in Canterbury. More than 90,000 solar panels on the 93-hectare site are now generating up to 100...
KiwiRail’s new electric shunt machines arrive
KiwiRail has welcomed the arrival of two state-of-the-art Electric Shunt Machines (ESMs) from Germany. Now in the initial commissioning stages, the powerful zero-emissions vehicles are designed to...
2degrees becomes first NZ telco with an SBTi-validated net zero target
2degrees has become the first NZ telco to have a science-based net-zero target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative under The Corporate Net-Zero Standard.
WM New Zealand Celebrates Milestone Partnership with Volvo Trucks
WM New Zealand is celebrating a major milestone in its sustainability journey: it can now purchase electric trucks directly from Volvo Trucks as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) solution. In...
Meridian to install two fast chargers in Springs Junction
Work is underway to install an EV charging station at Springs Junction, a key route between Christchurch and Nelson. Last week, on-site work started to install two 50kW DC fast chargers at Springs...
New report from WSP warns of insurance crisis due to climate change
A new report by WSP and the Helen Clark Foundation highlights a looming crisis for residential insurance in Aotearoa New Zealand. As climate-related extreme weather events escalate in frequency and...
Renewable gas flows in New Zealand pipeline for the first time
First Renewables, in partnership with Ecogas confirmed today that the First Renewables biogas upgrade facility, located at the Ecogas Reporoa Organics Processing Facility is now in production. James...
Aviation fuel from waste wood viable in Aotearoa, says Air New Zealand, Lanzajet
Fuel from wood waste such as forestry slash could create an industry worth $430 million a year and power aircraft, trucks and other transport, research out today finds.