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Auckland most accessible, intermittent-free renewables and shifting borders
- Climate change shifts borders
- Efficiency remains main contributor to climate goals
- Renewables jobs increase 18%
- Electricity jobs in Oz to double (or quadruple) in 5 years
- Is your net zero plan credible?
- SDGs delivering a competitive edge
- Auckland tops the region for sustainable accessibility
- Nighttime solar
- Renewables without the intermittency (aka hedging your bets)
Back for the future, can we thicken the ice sheets? And the end of an era
- Three Mile Island is back
- Net zero commitments still rising among large companies (1)
- Net zero commitments still rising among large companies (2)
- New electricity lifecycle emissions factors
- End of an era
- AI – Artificial Ice
- Sustainability professionals suffering burnout
- Dead tree emoji for business, yeah or nah?
Decarbonising reaps rewards, global power alliance launched and green skills in demand
- Global Clean Power Alliance launched
- Global South hit by US$675bn double whammy
- Decarbonisation stalling but reaps rewards
- Green skills in high demand
- EVs still charging ahead – in some markets
- Self-charging mobiles using transparent solar cells
Energy transition key to prosperity, we can grow to zero and methane rising at an increasing rate
- Energy is key to economic prosperity
- NZ’s largest companies lauded and shamed on climate reporting
- Methane emissions growing at accelerating rate
- 92% of companies can grow while reducing emissions
- 36% of B2B customers prepared to switch suppliers on sustainability
- SMEs accepting the challenge
- ICC considering declaring ecocide a crime
- Volvo back-tracks
Cheap, safe hydrogen storage, 90% energy self-sufficiency at -45C and fashion’s faux pas
- A 19th Century solution to a 21st Century problem
- The timber building that’s 90% energy self-sufficient at -45C
- More efficiency support across the ditch
- Fashion not on trend
- Another largest wind turbine (for now)
SBTi for buildings, AI to save billions and world’s biggest heatpump
- Science Based Targets for Buildings
- China hits target early
- What about others?
- AI to save billions in generation
- World’s biggest heatpump unveiled
- The latest refrigerant gas is …… air
- Non-electric heat transfer breakthrough
E-fuel setback, preventing battery fires and revolutionary process heat and cooling advances
- Electrifying process heat – a new innovation
- New circularity index for the bioeconomy
- Built environment becoming more sustainable
- Fresh cooling and heating breakthrough
- Preventing battery fires
- Ozzies ahead on targeting efficiency
- E-fuel setback
Nobel Laureates up in arms, EV heat pumps and 50% HVAC savings
- Nobel Laureates up in arms
- Strong ESG shown as a positive valuation influence
- Climate change triples chance of extreme wildfires
- The march of the heat pump
- Easy air conditioner retrofit cuts energy use by 50%
- Solar highway potential
Carbon credit shakeup, ozone’s Jekyll and Hyde and daffodils to save NZ agriculture
- Renewables out of carbon credit mix
- The Jekyll and Hyde of ozone
- Amazon deforestation slows
- Cold but not so cold
- Wave energy comes of age
- Daffodils to curb agricultural emissions
Nuclear gamechanger, ideas for councils and springs outperform batteries for storage
- Nuclear gamechanger
- Sustainability fund labels go live
- Plans coming together
- Ideas for Councils
- New hydrogen recipe
- Springs hold more energy than lithium batteries
$100 extra for a green car, methane eating trees and accounting for contrails
- What price low carbon cars?
- Yet another reason to love trees
- Have your say on offsetting Scope 3
- Mandating SAF
- The unaccounted aviation emission
- Small is beautiful in the world of wind
- World first offshore charger
Big methane savings a reality, building emissions’ AI potential and stretchy batteries
- Simple win on methane
- AI and building efficiency
- Steel’s performance strengthening
- Cheap Ozzie power
- Our future world
- Stretchy batteries