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
LEADERSHIP IN SUSTAINABILITY
Supporting members to be ambitious on sustainability
and encouraging other businesses to go further.
ACTION ON CLIMATE AND NATURE
Accelerating the transition to a future that is zero emissions, resilient, and nature regenerative.
THRIVING PEOPLE
Members are contributing to a just transition and acting on the most material issues facing society.
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
Annual Plan
The SBC Annual Plan outlines SBC’s work programme and focus areas for 2022/2023.
Better Futures 2023
Better Futures 2023
Concern around the climate remains stable, but commitment to living sustainably has dropped since 2022.
Case Study:
Quadrent and BNZ
Case Study:
Green Funding Collaboration Tackles E-waste and Digital Equity
SBC Talks Tools with Generate Zero
SBC Talks Tools with Generate Zero
In this edition of SBC Talks Tools, we spoke with Caroline Knowles from Generate Zero, a platform that harnesses the power of data and AI to measure, manage, and reduce carbon emissions.
Latest news
Pānui news – 25 May
In this week's Pānui, New Zealand Steel announces the country's biggest emissions reduction project, SBC Talks Tools with Generate Zero, Māori frameworks are needed to recloak the whenua (Manaaki...
SBC welcomes significant announcement to reduce emissions
The Sustainable Business Council (SBC) is welcoming the Government’s move to partner with NZ Steel to reduce emissions through co-funding the installation of an Electric Arc Furnace at the Glenbrook steel factory.
Pānui news – 18 May
In this week's Pānui, Mike Burrell offers his reflections on the WBCSD Liaison Delegate Meeting via a video Q&A, Government announces Budget 2023, Counties Energy launches into emissions...
NZ Post and NZ Steel lead the way through THRIVE – SBC’s Future Work ecosystem
May 2023 Following the recent launch of THRIVE, SBC’s Future Work ecosystem pilot, I have been really encouraged by the high levels of interest we’ve received and the progress already made, so I...
