Air New Zealand is encouraging passengers to do their bit to reduce carbon emissions when flying by packing light to help reduce the weight of aircraft. In an email to…
Air New Zealand is encouraging passengers to do their bit to reduce carbon emissions when flying by packing light to help reduce the weight of aircraft. In an email to Airpoints members on Tuesday Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran outlined details about the airline’s “most important journey yet”...
With approximately 22,000 students, Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington is its own small city in the heart of the capital. As a sustainability engagement coordinator, or kaitaupua toitū, Andrea Marsden is one of a small team whose goal is to change the habits of that number for the better,...
Parts of Christchurch will feel the impacts of sea-level rise earlier than expected because the land is sinking, according to new data. Large areas from Woodend to Lake Ellesmere, including Banks Peninsula, are subsiding up to three millimetres per year, which means an extra 30 centimetres of sea-level rise over...
Now companies, universities and other organisations have developed business plans to reduce thier carbon footprints, or even go carbon neutral, the next frontier was for employers to help their workers do the same. "This is definitely going to become the norm- 100 per cent," said Stuart Bryant, head of facilities...
The country’s biggest bank, ANZ, says it would eventually cut off business customers who do not take a serious approach to the risks of climate change as a last resort. In October, New Zealand became the first country to pass a law making financial organisations disclose, and act, on climate-related...
Major reductions in transport are critical to achieving New Zealand's commitment of being carbon neutral by 2050 – with 42 per cent of our carbon dioxide emissions attributed to vehicles. For most New Zealanders, fossil-fuelled vehicles are the biggest source of our individual emissions, with nearly 70 per cent of...
Both Z and Ampol recognise the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels – it's what our customers expect and is a key part of our joint aspiration. At its core, Z's Low Carbon Transition strategy is about being relevant to the daily lives of New Zealanders now and...
Commercial building specialists are eyeing the Government's new $100 million "green" investment fund to help upcycle New Zealand's old buildings. Engineering consultants Beca said there was a huge opportunity to improve New Zealand's building stock, now believed to be belching out 20 per cent of New Zealand's carbon pollution....
Three decades ago, Abbie Reynolds pioneered a paper recycling scheme at her secondary school. That was at a time when climate change wasn't yet a global concern, and environmentalists were often stereotyped as hippies living on the fringes of society....
Hotel industry leader Sudesh Jhunjhnuwala is proud of the Sudima hotel chain being the only one in New Zealand to be CarboNZero certified. The chain has just been awarded the country's most prestigious tourism award, Tourism Industry Aotearoa's Supreme Tourism Award. And it scooped the Employer of Choice Award and...
