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Sustainable Business Council

Business, people and nature thriving together

Annual Snapshot 2023/24

SBC’s Annual Snapshot highlights SBC and member activity throughout 2023/24.

SBC Strategy 2023-2027

Read our Strategy for 2023-2027 to learn more about our vision and purpose, our priorities, our programme of work, and our impact.

The Sustainable Business Council exists to mobilise New Zealand’s most ambitious businesses to build a thriving and sustainable future for all.

SBC is a membership organisation that connects businesses, partners, and sectors to create impact that no single business could achieve alone. We work with executives and sustainability professionals to maximise their positive impact for shareholders, communities and the environment. We hold our members to account by asking them to fulfil member commitments. We deliver impact by championing our members to be at the leading-edge of sustainability and in doing so inspire other businesses to take action.

Our work

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LEADERSHIP IN SUSTAINABILITY

Supporting members to be ambitious on sustainability
and encouraging other businesses to go further.

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ACTION ON CLIMATE AND NATURE

Accelerating the transition to a future that is zero emissions, resilient, and nature regenerative.

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THRIVING PEOPLE

Members are contributing to a just transition and acting on the most material issues facing society.

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SUSTAINABILITY

Making sustainability mainstream within New Zealand businesses

CLIMATE LEADERS COALITION

Uniting businesses and accelerating our transition to a zero carbon future

Our members

Useful resources

Annual Plan 2024/25

SBC's Annual Plan outlines our work programme and focus areas for 2024/25

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Better Futures 2024

Kiwi consumers believe business action is falling short of business responsibility, both in terms of climate change and environmental issues and community and social challenges.

Sustainability Toolkit

Practical, actionable guides and resources (from SBC and external) designed to support members get the fundamentals of sustainability in place.

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SBC Talks Tools with All Heart NZ

In our most recent edition of SBC Talks Tools, we catch up with All Heart NZ's Molly Hicks about their new sustainable deconstruction service, designed to help corporates safely and sustainably dispose of materials (like carpets, kitchens, and bathrooms) that would otherwise have ended up in landfill during building deconstruction.

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