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Beca is pleased to announce Debbie O’Byrne, Circular Economy Principal, has been invited to spearhead the New Zealand Green Building Council’s participation in the World Green Business Council Circularity Accelerator.

With 50 and 100-year floods seemingly every other week in New Zealand and Australia, unprecedented heat waves in Europe, and freak hailstorms in Mexico, just to name a few recent severe weather events, the impacts of climate change are well and truly being felt around the world.

A number of agribusiness heavyweights have signed up to be part of the government’s proposed research centre tasked with reducing agricultural emissions.

EECA has commissioned Standards New Zealand to produce a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) for Smart Homes, to help New Zealanders understand how they can make their existing home ‘smart’ and begin the transition to this new technology.

Synlait Milk Limited (Synlait) has completed two key projects, which sees the first phase of its
decarbonisation roadmap completed.

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.

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.

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 plans to start flying its aircraft partly on sustainable aviation fuel made from recycled cooking oil and animal waste from next week.

Meat processor Silver Fern Farms is moving more animals over fewer kilometres, thanks to a digital real-time transport management system.

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

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.