Hope and frustration - Joanna Silver & Alec Tang
The annual Climate Change and Business Conference is the biggest corporate meet-up on the climate agenda, attracting delegates from industry, politics and NGOs as well as overseas high-noters. This ye...
12 Sep 202542min
New Zealand, the climate change quiet quitter? - Royce Kurmelovs
What would a journalist from outside New Zealand find if they ran the ruler over our current climate policies? Australian writer Royce Kurmelovs has done just that, and he tells Ross Inglis that the a...
7 Aug 202515min
Funding nature better - Robin Mitchell, Nature Positive
Why is it so hard to invest in nature - not for extraction but for nature itself? We invest in human health. Why don’t we invest in nature health? Well, increasingly we are trying. Nature Based Soluti...
29 Jul 202532min
NZ's Emissions reduction plan heads to court - Jessica Palairet, Lawyers for Climate Action NZ
If you reckon our national strategy for reducing emissions is short on ambition, Jessica Palairet agrees. Jessica heads Lawyers for Climate Action which, together with the Environmental Law Initiative...
23 Jul 202517min
The Next Wave - Dr Kate Prendergast and James Griffin
What does it take to build a globally significant clean tech or sustainability innovation from New Zealand? To answer that, you’d be best to talk those already doing it right? That’s exactly what the ...
15 Jul 202524min
Dairy Done Differently - Brendan Haigh, Miraka
New Zealand's dairy sector has an awful environmental record, but what if we decided to do dairy differently? Iwi-owned Miraka is figuring out how to produce lower-emissions export dairy based on the ...
10 Jul 202518min
A new biodiversity credit - Sean Weaver and Helen Hughes
In June, the government announced nine pilots to trial a voluntary nature credits scheme - the closest so far to a biodiversity credit. Led by Act MP and Associate Minister for the Environment Andrew ...
26 Jun 202543min
Dental as anything - Laura Nixon, Solid
Everyone’s got an idea for a business at some point in their life. Laura Nixon did something about it. A hygienist, troubled by the volume of plastic waste in the dental sector, Laura founded Solid, w...
18 Jun 202527min
