| News, views and upcoming events
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A number of SBC members featured in the New Zealand Herald's recent Sustainable Business and Finance series. Check out the articles (some paywalled) below. | |
Sustainable Business and Finance: Carbon-neutral: the tipping point Economic activity generates waste, and minimising that impact is Waste Management's business. Read the article here. | | | |
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Sustainable Business and Finance: The pressure is growing Toitū Envirocare gives businesses the science and tools they need to improve their carbon and environmental performance. Read more about the growing pressures on business here. | | | |
Sustainable Business and Finance: Climate change - an undeniable imperative for the Government Chapman Tripp's Kate Wilson Butler offers her thoughts on the next government's critical role in New Zealand's climate action. | | | |
Sustainable Business and Finance: Our climate and nature response - the imperative and opportunity KPMG's Alec Tang discusses the recently launched TNFD and why it's critical to look at nature and climate as two sides of the same coin. | | | |
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Fonterra announces climate plans for the future | Huge congratulations to Fonterra on its ambitious new on-farm emissions reduction target, as well as the release of its Climate Roadmap and voluntary Climate-related Disclosure report. "We know we play a significant part in New Zealand’s emissions profile, and it’s up to all of us to work towards helping New Zealand achieve its climate targets." | | | |
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Westpac NZ supports agri customers to future-proof their operations | Westpac has set emissions intensity targets for its agriculture lending portfolios. "New Zealand has some of the best farmers in the world. We want to help them stay ahead of the pack by future-proofing their businesses to deliver products that cater to the preferences of increasingly climate-conscious consumers in key export markets." | | | |
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Countdown to COP: Members on the ground | COP28 is set to have a strong focus on business and its leadership role in the transition to net zero. SBC’s Mike Burrell and Antonia Burbidge will be joined on the ground by a number of our members and partner organisations. Here's what some of them had to say about why they’re going, what they’re hoping to achieve and what they think a successful outcome might look like. | | | |
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Thriving Communities: Equipping businesses to grow impact together | Our recently launched report ‘Thriving People – Strengthening the ‘S’ in ESG’ showed business has an exciting role to progress social equity through action in three areas of focus, including community investment and impact. SBC’s Thriving Voices online event series continued last week with our kaputī kōrero focusing on community impact. Read the key takeaways here. | | | |
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Future Focus: Using AI to help solve the climate crisis | Tech got us into this mess – can it get us out? DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial intelligence lab, has been using its AI expertise to tackle the climate change problem in three different ways. Read this interview with Sims Witherspoon, DeepMind's climate action lead, around the potential of AI in helping humanity tackle the climate crisis. | | | |
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Sustainability Reporting Corner | In this week's reporting corner, we have the most recent Ethical Sourcing Report from The Warehouse Group and Auckland Council subsidiary Tātaki Auckland Unlimited's sustainability story. | | | |
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Networking opportunity: Meet American MBA/Sustainability students interested in New Zealand Pullman Hotel conference room | 11 December, 2:00-3:15pm NZST
MBA students from California’s Pepperdine Graziadio Business School will be visiting New Zealand in December and meeting with SBC as part of their Social, Ethical and Environmental Responsibility certificate, with the intention of learning more about sustainability and exploring employment opportunities in New Zealand’s sustainability sector. In an effort to potentially bring more future sustainability professionals with international experience into Aotearoa, and to help these students learn about how we do business here, SBC is offering the opportunity for our members to come meet, mingle and network with a cohort of possible future hires. Nibbles and light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP by 24 November.
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Measuring and reporting environmental performance (thinkstep-anz, ESP and Stride Property) Online | 21 November, 1:30-2:00pm NZST
Learn how Stride Property are using ESP's BraveGen software to track and report their carbon emissions and sustainability targets. Stride Property’s Sharyn Bramwell-Reweti, Safety and Sustainability Manager and ESP’s Dan Tomlinson, Head of Markets and Partnerships, joins thinkstep-anz CEO Barbara Nebel.
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NEW: Kantar's Great Sustainability Debate (APAC) Online | 23 November, 5:00pm NZST
Kantar has gather some of the brightest minds driving sustainability transformation across APAC, and they have challenged they to a great debate. THE MOTION: "Brands should not prioritise sustainability in APAC because driving consumer behaviour change is costly and does not drive sales."
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NEW: Building a sustainable future: Tools to decarbonise the construction industry Online | 28 November, 10:00am NZST
Join Toitū Envirocare’s panel of experts and Precinct Properties Head of Sustainability, Lisa Hinde, in an online webinar to discuss what sustainable practices and initiatives are currently occurring in the construction industry. This session will take a deep dive into the tools available to measure emissions and how they can be used to make smart decisions to build a low-carbon future.
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Please send Pānui stories (50 words plus square image) or event listings (100 words plus banner image) to sbccomms@businessnz.org.nz by Wednesday 12pm. | | | |
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