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The emergence of clean, efficient and economically viable electric technology for industrial process heat will help the country meet its climate change commitments, says Transpower.

The national grid owner and operator today released its report Taking the climate heat out of process heat, highlighting the opportunities and challenges of replacing fossil fuels with renewable electricity for process heat.

Port Nelson has joined 108 other organisations pledging their support to help reduce emissions in New Zealand.

The Climate Leaders Coalition is a collective of signatories who make up 60 per cent of New Zealand’s gross emissions, nearly a third of private sector GDP, and employ more than 170,000 New Zealanders.

A coalition of business leaders says the Zero Carbon amendment bill has to be ambitious and have all-party support in order to drive our transformation to a low carbon economy. And that means they need to have words with the National Party, says Rod Oram.

The world’s media are taking a strong stance on climate change coverage.

Covering Climate Change is bringing together over 60 media organisations around the world, including Stuff, to reframe climate change coverage.

Two of Gisborne’s biggest organisations have committed to tackling the “climate crisis” by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the Climate Leaders Coalition. Established in July 2018, the coalition (CLC) includes some of New Zealand’s largest businesses, which collectively account for 60 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions

SkyCity is putting a copy of the world’s most celebrated guide to reversing climate change in each of its hotel rooms.

Chief executive Graeme Stephens referred to the book as the “new Gideons’ Bible” while speaking at the first anniversary of the Climate Leaders Coalition, which is a group of more than 100 large companies aiming to make their businesses climate-friendly.

A few large companies are responsible for the majority of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions. Who are they and what hope is there that they can do what’s required to make the country carbon neutral? Joel MacManus and Anuja Nadkarni report.

Every year, New Zealand pumps out 80 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

A Hastings-based company is spearheading a project to tackle one of the most potent but least known causes of climate change in New Zealand.

The gases PFC and HFC used in refrigerants are 9000 times more potent than carbon dioxide contributing more to climate change than any other gas.

IAG New Zealand has released the results of its second annual survey of how New Zealanders view climate change.

The poll found that the number of Kiwis who feel the issue of climate change is important to them personally has grown to 79 per cent, from 72 per cent last year.

Sixty-nine per cent said that they have become more concerned about climate change over the past few years – up from 60 per cent.

The Minister for Climate Change has welcomed a new and stronger pledge from the Climate Leaders Coalition (CLC) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with what’s needed to limit warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.

A coalition of companies making up nearly two thirds of New Zealand’s gross emissions has upped its pledge to combat climate change, as it reports taking an equivalent 264,000 cars off the road since it launched one year ago.

The Climate Leaders Coalition – including major business players like Fonterra, Sanford, Air New Zealand, Spark, Kiwirail, The Warehouse Group and Westpac – marked its one-year anniversary today by releasing a snapshot of its progress.

New Zealanders are more concerned about climate change than ever before, but only half of us know what we personally need to do to make a difference.

What’s worse, only half of us believe our actions will be effective.