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This Climate Business

Podcasts NZ / Vincent Heeringa

This Climate Business is the Kiwi podcast about turning the climate crisis into an opportunity. Every week host Vincent Heeringa talks to entrepreneurs, investors and experts about what they"re doing to solve the climate crisis and get NZ down to zero emissions by 2050 – or sooner.

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27:41

Carbon, trees and seaweed - Finn Ross, CarbonZ

This Climate Business ·

2023/05/23

Finn Ross is a young guy on a mission. He’s completing a PhD on seaweed carbon sequestration, he’s also co-founder of CarbonZ, a company offering voluntary carbon credits based on the restoration and planting of native trees on New Zealand farmland. He’s the son of entrepreneurs Geoff and Justine Ross, owners of Lake Hawea Station, New Zealand’s first carbon positive farm. As a worker on the farm Finn has seen first-hand how Kiwi landowners must foot the bill for native afforestation – a problem

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24:24

The Big Business Alternative to Landfill: Joe Youssef...

This Climate Business ·

2023/05/14

A framework for any corporate, anywhere, to divert anything from landfill. That’s the promise from Auckland-based social enterprise All Heart NZ. Ross Inglis asked the irrepressible Joe Youssef, the company’s founder and Chief Encourager, how it does it.

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16:19

Taking on the Plastic Building Wrap Challenge

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2023/04/30

What happens to all those acres of white plastic wrap that protect building sites? Ross Inglis talks with two people who know: Too much of it goes to landfill, and they’re doing something about it.In this episode: Tina Wieczorek (right) is the CEO of the industry organisation Scaffolding, Access and Rigging New Zealand, or SARNZ, and Penny Thomson, a research manager and designer with the Environmental Solutions Research Centre, part of Auckland’s Unitec Institute of Technology.

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20:54

Yes, there’s a better way to Recycle Plastics: Rui...

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2023/04/22

Conventional plastics recycling is fussy: it can handle only four of the 24 types of plastic, and even those have to be clean. Here’s the story of Auckland-based social enterprise Critical, which uses proprietary technology to turn a wide range of waste plastics, including more contaminated ones, into construction boards and countertops.

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22:31

A second life for our throw-away clothing: Jeff...

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2023/04/05

New Zealanders on average throw out textiles equivalent to 200 t-shirts every year. Finding a new home for all those garments is the mission of Australasian textiles recycler Upparel. Jeff Vollebregt, director of Upparel’s New Zealand operation talked Ross Inglis through the business of circular clothing.

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20:02

Harbour bridges! Potholes! Light Rail! – with Paul...

This Climate Business ·

2023/04/03

The transport sector has experienced its share of drama this year, starting with Cyclone Gabrielle wiping out so many roads and bridges across the north island.The cyclone was blamed for a sudden change in the direction in government policy. Back in February, Minister Michael Woods announced a climate-friendly plan, in its three-year transport plan, the Government Policy Statement. For the first time it prioritised the emissions impact of transport. But just days later, he reversed many of those

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37:22

What the heck just happened to the carbon market? Dr...

This Climate Business ·

2023/03/26

Last week the quarterly auction for carbon credits hit a remarkable snag: it failed to meet the clearing price. This means none of the 4.5 million carbon permits on offer were sold. The failed auction was attributed to Cabinet’s decision to allow more credits to be issued, in an attempt to keep the carbon cost low. And it worked! The carbon price slumped from $90/tonne to $65/tonne. Cost of living crisis averted. The upshot is that the government just issued 40m tonnes of additional emissions –

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21:39

A decade of B-Corp. Now what? Qiulae Wong, NZ manager...

This Climate Business ·

2023/03/17

It's 10 years since the first companies were certified as B-Corp in New Zealand and since then the movement of ethical and environmentally responsible businesses has grown to over 500 in NZ and Australia and more than 6000 worldwide. But growing pains are emerging as the movement shifts from cutting-edge to mainstream. Last year a group of 30 B-Corps were horrified when Nespresso was certified despite, as they say, ‘Nespresso’s abysmal track record on human rights fromchild labourandwage

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15:06

How food growers can think about climate change:...

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2023/03/02

If the rain that deluged the North Island is the ‘new normal’, how are hard-hit growersmeant to think about the future – and growing anything in the ‘normal’ way?Vincent Heeringa spoke to Brent Clothier, chief scientist with Plant &Food, about four ways to think about growing food in a warmer and (ironically)drier New Zealand.Note: this was recorded before Cyclone Gabrielle devastated Hawkes bay and Tairawhiti.

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33:24

Making sense of Auckland’s floods – Kevin Trenberth,...

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2023/02/20

How can we make sense of the Biblical deluge that soaked Auckland, Northland, and the Coromandel in late January – and by the time this is being recorded is about to happen again. If only there was an articulate, slow-talking climate scientist who could explain what hell just happened. Oh, wait! Vincent just spoke with Kevin Trenberth a Distinguished Scholar at the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder Colorado and an Honorary Academic in the Department of Physics, Auckland

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20:33

A Constructive Use for Building Waste – With Nigel...

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2023/02/14

Building a new house in New Zealand produces on average two skips of construction debris. If a demolition is involved, added another 13 skips. As a nation, we’re really bad at diverting all that waste from landfill.Ross Inglis spoke with two people with a solution: property developer Nigel Benton and Doctor Terri-Ann Berry from Unitec Institute of Technology.

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16:41

What’s in store for 2023? Investment with Rohan MacMahon

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2023/02/06

Part Three: Rohan MacMahon on investment and technologyIs 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the election, with a potential change of government, have on the direction and speed of climate policy? To shed some light Vincent dusted off the crystal ball and spoke to three experts about the year ahead: Marc Daalder Newsroom’s climate reporter; Dr Victoria Hatton, director of sustainability and climate change

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16:30

What’s in store for 2023? Corporate strategy with Dr...

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2023/02/03

Part two: Victoria Hatton on corporate strategy Is 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the election, with a potential change of government, have on the direction and speed of climate policy? To shed some light Vincent dusted off the crystal ball and spoke to three experts about the year ahead: Marc Daalder Newsroom’s climate reporter; Dr Victoria Hatton, director of sustainability and climate change at PWC;

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12:27

What’s in store for 2023? Climate politics with Marc...

This Climate Business ·

2023/02/01

Part One: Marc Daalder starts with the year ahead in politics.Is 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the election, with a potential change of government, have on the direction and speed of climate policy? To shed some light Vincent dusted off the crystal ball and spoke to three experts about the year ahead: Marc Daalder Newsroom’s climate reporter; Dr Victoria Hatton, director of sustainability and climate

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34:57

A climate action accelerator for Auckland - Climate...

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2022/12/06

Auckland’s climate plan Te-Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri is an impressive and ambitious document that sets out a response to climate change that’s not just about mitigation (that is, emissions reductions) but also adaptation and developing a future that’s unique to Tāmaki Makaurau. Sarah Anderson and Parin Rafiei-Thompson have been instrumental in the plan and now are the driving forces behind Climate Connect Aotearoa, an innovation hub funded by Council to accelerate Auckland’s climate response.

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36:08

Growing food in a hotter NZ – Jenny Cameron, Fit for...

This Climate Business ·

2022/11/12

The primary sector has been in the gun lately for its reluctance to resolve its emissions profile. You’d almost think there’s some denial going on. Well, that might be true of some, but not all. In 2021 a broad industry effort went into a primary sector document called Fit for a Better World. The strategy lays down the challenge to be sustainable, inclusive and profitable, with specific targets for 2030 and beyond. I spoke to Jenny Cameron, the Chief Transformation Officier at MPI, and the leader of

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49:53

Follow the climate money – Climate VC Fund

This Climate Business ·

2022/10/25

Rohan MacMahon and Jez Weston are co-founders of the Climate VC Fund – a fund that invest in emission reductions technologies in NZ and Australia. They were on the show to announce their ambitions but a year on, what’s happened? Did they raise the money require? Have they invested in anything? What new tech or ideas are on their radar? And what’s the state of change? Full dsiclousre Vincent is an investor and a contractor to the fund. www.Climatevcfund.com

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30:19

The End of Smoke on the Water? Michael Eaglen, EV...

This Climate Business ·

2022/10/17

Auckland’s ferries, which burn 13 million litres of diesel every year and produce 20 percent of the city’s public transport emissions, are about to clean up their act. Two electric ferries are being built right now for the Waitematā, with design and engineering in the hands of ambitious zero-emissions boatbuilder EV Maritime. CEO Michael Eaglen told Ross Inglis that the two new boats are just the beginning.

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47:29

Super Clean, Super Green – Cleanery’s Mark and Ellie...

This Climate Business ·

2022/10/10

In 1993, school boy Mark Sorenson got 20/20 for an essay about the dangers of plastic packaging. 29 years later Mark and his business partner and wife, Ellie, have established Cleanery, a kiwi start-up that’s attracted millions in venture capital and now has products ranged across NZ and Australian supermarkets.Cleanery removes the water and the plastic bottle from household cleaners, offeringinstead a sachet of cleaning powder. Simply tip the powder into any bottle, add warm water, and presto,

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31:14

Why, what and who of Auckland Climate Festival -...

This Climate Business ·

2022/09/30

Michelle Kennedy is the co-founder of the Auckland Climate Festival, a celebration of all things climate change, ranging from bike tours to investor meetings, beach clean-up, a transport tech conference, film screenings, and the O Tatou Ngahere native trees conference – and so much more. Michelle speaks to Vincent about why she started the festival and how it’s going in the second year.https://aucklandclimatefestival.co.nz/

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