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SBC Hot Seat with Shannil Varma (CLC Manager)

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

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...

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Climate Leaders Coalition re-commits to ambitious climate action with new convenor

Big business sets up decarbonisation funds

Big corporates are lining up to prove their carbon credentials, responding to a huge shift in public, and political opinion.

The Warehouse has gone carbon neutral by buying carbon credits and planting native trees to “offset” the carbon it emits selling us stuff.

Air New Zealand has signed up to the Dryland Carbon partnership with Genesis Energy and Z Energy to plant mainly “exotic” trees like radiata pine to offset emissions.

Climate Leaders Coalition re-commits to ambitious climate action with new convenor

Naylor Love joins the Climate Leaders Coalition

Naylor Love has made a genuine and profound commitment to be the leader in sustainable construction practices and the champion of sustainable construction products in New Zealand.
We’re delighted to announce that Naylor Love has joined the Climate Leaders Coalition, a group of 80 New Zealand businesses who have committed to tackling climate change and reducing carbon emissions.

Climate Leaders Coalition re-commits to ambitious climate action with new convenor

Enviro-Mark calculator helps families measure household emissions

Dave Bryce started monitoring his family’s carbon dioxide emissions about 12 years ago. At the time, they were emitting something close to the average for a New Zealand family. These days, he and his wife are emitting about one-eighth of the emissions of an average family, he says.
Bryce knows this because he uses Landcare Research’s Household Emissions Calculator, a free online tool that captures electricity use, transport and household waste and estimates CO2 emissions in kilograms.

Climate Leaders Coalition re-commits to ambitious climate action with new convenor

Fuelled by biodiesel

The Co-op has been working closely with Z Energy since 2014 to help introduce biodiesel to New Zealand as part of its commitment to reduce emissions across its operations.

Fast forward to 2019, Fonterra now has its 156 tankers in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty area producing 4% less emissions per year.

Climate Leaders Coalition re-commits to ambitious climate action with new convenor

Meridian plugs in to global EV community

Meridian Energy’s commitment to EVs has gone global with the company joining the international EV100 initiative by pledging to operate a 100% electric fleet by 2030. Meridian joins overseas companies like Baidu, DHL and HP as well as local companies including Air New Zealand and Christchurch Airport.

Climate Leaders Coalition re-commits to ambitious climate action with new convenor

Vector achieves strong result in CDP disclosure report

Emissions reductions initiatives, governance and value chain engagement were among the company’s highest scoring categories.

Vector, the country’s largest electricity distributor, was yesterday given the ‘best first-time performance’ award, and an above average overall score for the sector and region, at an event marking the release of the CDP 2018 Regional Disclosure Report Launch.

Climate Leaders Coalition re-commits to ambitious climate action with new convenor

The Warehouse Group becomes 1st major NZ company and 3rd retailer in the world to be carbon neutral

We’re the largest company in New Zealand – and only the third major retailer globally – to be carbon neutral. We’re doing this because we care about the health of our people, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the planet.

We are committed to this journey. Our target is to reduce emissions by 32 percent by 2030 (from our 2015 base level). This is in keeping with the target of staying within 2⁰C of warming, based on pre-industrial levels, set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.