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COP26, Negative Prices and Wooden Batteries

COP26, Negative Prices and Wooden Batteries

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins    Kia ora, As Europe (the band) would say, it’s the final countdown – to COP26 that is.  With only a couple of days to go, the announcements on commitments are coming thick and fast, even from those with reputations for lacking climate change commitment.  This week saw net…

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Networking, Conference and Surplus Milk?

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins      It’s been another full-on week for international, local and CEP news. Starting off close to home, we had a couple of great networking events this week enjoying excellent turnouts at both Wellington and Auckland. Numbers were boosted by members of the Young Energy Professionals Network and Sustainability…

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New Board Member for CEP plus International News

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins    Kia ora, In internal news, we can report CEP has a new Board member, Jason Bretherton of WSP. As you’ll all know one Board seat is occupied by a representative of our Senior (Foundation, Gold and Silver) Corporate Partners. Until recently, the position was held by Emma-Kate Greer…

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A Children’s Crisis, More Flooding and a Nuclear Dilemma

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins    A sobering report from UNICEF this week revealed around 1 billion children – nearly half the world’s population – are living in one of 33 countries categorised as “extremely high risk” because of climate change. Nearly 920 million children are highly exposed to water scarcity, almost 820 million…

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Credit Ratings, Wooden Windows and Emojis

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins      First this week, I would like to introduce you all to Anne Phiri. Many of you will know Anne from her work with the Bioenergy Association. We have the need for a little extra admin support in the office and so we’re borrowing Anne for a few…

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Targets, the EV Market and Living Bricks

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins      Well, we’re certainly back in action. There have been numerous events and information sessions this week on the back of the CCC draft advice and the return of Parliament. One interesting snippet (from Minister Woods) from a session on Thursday was that the Government’s manifesto target of…

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