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SBC launches new framework for national system to help reduce freight emissions at Climate Change & Business Conference
The Sustainable Business Council (SBC) has successfully completed the second phase of its Low Emission Freight Certificate (LEFC) collaboration, marking a major step in the development of a new national system to help reduce emissions from Aotearoa New Zealand’s heavy...
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Pānui news – 16 October
In this edition of Pānui, The NZ Government has released its first National Adaptation Framework, we share insights from the Adaptation Futures Conference, The NZ Government resets NZ's methane targets for 2050 and releases its response to the Climate Change...
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Future-proofing our resilience: what I learned at the Adaptation Futures Conference
SBC’s Manager – Climate and Nature Charlotte Kootstra shares her key takeaways from the recent Adaptation Futures Conference 2025, and what they mean for business
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Guest Blog – Sustainability – A retrospective
A guest blog from one of SBC’s original members, Geoff Bennett, CEO of Energy & Technical Services
Pānui News – May 24
In this week’s Pānui news, Trees that Count launches a marketplace that enables businesses and individuals to support native tree planting, and Fuji Xerox and Downer trial a new asphalt made out of waste photocopier toner.
Pānui News – May 17
In this week’s Pānui, SBC’s sustainable procurement guidelines for freight go global and our executive director Abbie Reynolds looks at the ways business can build trust.
What’s on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s agenda
SBC’s executive director, Abbie Reynolds, reflects on the big issues affecting sustainable business councils worldwide.
Science-based targets 101: Get a head start on target setting
At SBC we’ve noticed since early 2017 that many of our member businesses are setting emissions reduction targets to 2030, 2040 and even 2050.
Pānui News – May 10
In this week’s Pānui, Countdown and Mico Plumbing both make moves to reduce NZ’s plastic bag use and The Warehouse and thinkstep sign up to set Science-Based Targets
Building trust in business
The 2018 Acumen Edelman Barometer Trust Barometer shows that trust in business has been low and static at 47 per cent in the past two years.
Pānui News – May 03
In this week’s Pānui, we feature Ravensdown’s new technology helping clean-up effluent and water ways and Fonterra’s latest move away from coal.
Pānui News – Apr 26
In this week’s Pānui, the first inaugural Sustainable Development Goals Summit in New Zealand makes big waves and Abbie Reynolds reflects on two years in the job.
Watch – Carbon and the Sustainable Development Goals agenda
Abbie Reynolds learns that natural carbon sinks, such as forestry and wetlands, hold huge potential to help New Zealand and the world transition to a low emissions economy, at the WBCSD liaison delegate meeting in Switzerland.
Watch – WBCSD’s top issues to tackle – Vlog from Montreux
At the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Liaison Delegate Meeting last week, Peter Bakker predicted some of the big trends for sustainability professionals will be: The cost of capital, future of work and disruptive technologies.
Pānui News – Apr 19
In this week’s Pānui, the interim Climate Change Commission membership has a strong business background and SBC members clean up in the Colmar Brunton Corporate Reputation Index.