by chris | Jan 20, 2020 | Energy
Your corporate sustainability targets might be in for a shock! Prior to Christmas, the Government announced a raft of proposed changes to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) to rapidly decarbonise the economy. This included lifting the ETS price cap from $25/tonne to...
by chris | Jan 9, 2020 | Energy
Research shows that using low-carbon energy solutions can improve your reputation – helping make the case for sustainable energy innovation. Deloitte recently published The Global Millennial Survey. This reinforced a number of other surveys that concluded that...
by DavidSpratt | Oct 22, 2019 | Energy
Our national grid pricing needs solutions. And after 10 years of pondering its navel, the Electricity Authority (EA), the Government agency charged with ensuring an efficient and effective electricity industry, plans to release a paper that may or may not gain...
by RichardGardiner | Aug 21, 2019 | Energy
Most of us now agree that climate change is all too real and we therefore all need to do something about it, sooner rather than later. However, some impulsive political changes in the past 18 months, like unilaterally banning all new offshore oil and gas exploration,...
by DavidSpratt | Aug 14, 2019 | Energy
“A society grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they will never lie in.” – Greek Proverb I spent the best part of Saturday planting trees, flaxes, and ferns along a stream bank with my son, Tom, and his best mate. The task was “wholesome”...
by chris | Aug 7, 2019 | Energy
New Zealand has set a target under the Paris Agreement to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030, and to adopt increasingly more ambitious targets in the future. Per capita, New Zealand’s emissions are one of the highest in the...