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The climate cost of 'need it now' home deliveries | Our Head of Climate and Nature Antonia Burbidge recently caught up with Eloise Gibson (RNZ) to discuss the carbon impact of 'need it now' home deliveries, highlighting the opportunity to offer customers delivery options that might be slower, but are cheaper and better for the planet. A workstream on enabling mode shift is underway in our Freight Group, which you can read about here. | | | |
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Understanding NZ's sustainability transformation landscape | SBC members KPMG New Zealand and Kantar have released an insightful reporting looking at the sustainability transformation landscape in Aotearoa New Zealand, featuring thoughts from leading sustainability professionals around the impetus for change, barriers, drivers, opportunities, and how the consulting industry can best support their goals. | | | |
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Welcome to new SBC member Lever Room | Nau mai haere mai ki te Lever Room, an independent organisation supercharging the transition to a net zero, nature positive future, with services including reporting on sustainability, nature and climate related impacts, data and disclosures including TCFD reporting. Learn more about Lever Room here. Welcome to the SBC whānau! | | | |
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The future of sustainable business is regeneration | Instead of just responding to the business effects of climate change, leaders at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) are discussing creating a proactive positive impact. Acknowledging that the growth of economies has been fueled by depleting of resources, WEF attendees are debating how to reinvent and rethink everything from business models to supply chains. | | | |
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New EU sustainability laws show NZ companies can't be complacent | If New Zealand companies want to know what sustainability regulations are on the horizon, they should look to Europe, which has announced new legislation outlawing generic labels like 'eco' and 'green'. This BusinessDesk article also includes shoutouts to SBC members L'Oreal, Spark, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and CHEP Brambles for scoring high on ESG metrics. | | | |
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Avoiding greenwashing - the PR perspective (Nikki Wright) | How do you avoid greenwashing when trying to showcase your sustainability achievements? Watch this video for some fabulous insights from Nikki Wright (Wright Communications) around greenwashing from a PR perspective, taken from one of last year's SBC Community of Practitioners: Comms, Brand and Marketing sessions. | | | |
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Mercury Energy seeks EOI for solar opportunity | Mercury is looking for partners to develop, finance, build and run a large-scale solar project to supply ~100MW of renewable electricity to the grid by 2026. Mercury will buy the electricity at a price and for a period that can be agreed upon with the partner. The EOI process is open until 29 February and interested parties can get in touch to learn more at wholesale@mercury.co.nz. | | | |
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Sustainability Leadership Programme taster session Online | 8 February, 10:00-11:00am NZST
Are you passionate about sustainability, but don’t yet feel like you have the knowledge or toolkit to push the needle in your organisation? Join us for this free online taster session to hear from past participants on how SLP has had a positive impact on their leadership within their current role and organisation and beyond. Registrations are now open for SLP 2024, with early bird applications closing on 23 February.
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Introducing sustainability: the what, why and how – full day course EMA, Auckland | 14 February, 9:00am-5:00pm NZST Are you wanting to better understand sustainability, its application in businesses and why it’s important? Join BusinessNZ Network for full day introductory sustainability course. Learn about this critical issue for business and all its facets from carbon and climate change to waste and circular economy, social responsibility, communicating and reporting for sustainability and more. Unpack key terms, get tangible and practical and explore case studies over this 1-day course.
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