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 2024/25
SBC's Annual Plan outlines our work programme and focus areas for 2024/25
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
Sustainability Toolkit
Practical, actionable guides and resources (from SBC and external) designed to support members get the fundamentals of sustainability in place.
SBC Talks Tools with All Heart NZ
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.
Latest news
Q&A with Lyttelton Port on becoming a TNFD early adopter
SBC recently caught up with Kirsty Brennan, Environmental Business Partner at Lyttelton Port (LPC), about LPC's announcement earlier this year that it has become an early adopter of the Taskforce on...
Pānui news – 3 October
In this week's edition of Pānui, we share our final 'Insights from the top' interview, we announced SBC's 25th anniversary, SBC Executive Director Mike Burrell is heading to the Global Nature...
Pānui news – 26 September
In this week's edition of Pānui, we share our latest 'Insights from the top' video on truly embedding sustainability into your business model and brand, we share the launch of Better Futures Thrive,...
Kiwi businesses not taking enough action on social issues, say consumers
New research from Kantar and the Sustainable Business Council (SBC) highlights an opportunity for New Zealand businesses to drive greater commitment and action on social responsibility, both internally with employees and for the benefit of the communities they operate in.
