This Climate Business

As climate impacts become more visible across Aotearoa, the question is no longer whether we adapt, but how.
Sarah Bogle, co-convenor of the Aotearoa Society of Adaptation Professionals | Rōpū Urutaunga Aotearoa (ASAP | RUA), joins This Climate Business to discuss the emerging profession of climate adaptation and why communities, businesses, councils and governments need new skills to navigate an uncertain future.
Sarah explains the gap ASAP | RUA was created to fill, why adaptation deserves greater attention alongside emissions reduction, and how the organisation's waka hourua approach brings together science, mātauranga Māori, professional expertise and lived experience to strengthen climate resilience.
It's a conversation about resilience, collaboration, difficult choices, and creating practical pathways through climate risk as Aotearoa prepares for a changing climate.

Climate wins and climate losses - how are we feeling about it all?
Vincent and Ross discuss the state of climate action with new host Vicktoria Blake, a climate professional specialising in the health sector and who has a long and impressive pedigree in climate strategy, advocacy and education. Vicktoria won awards for it all and somewhere along the way there's a diploma in radio broadcasting too.

Imagine being able to bring climate into long-term financial forecasts - not just this year but 100-years ahead. Canopi is the latest climate tool to come from the climate powerhouse Lever Room. Rebecca Mills is the founder of Lever Room, a strategy and technology company working across carbon, climate and nature. Rebecca helped build The B Team, the global initiative founded by Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz, and now leads Women in Climate Tech Australasia and lectures at the University of Otago.

Vincent attended the Sustainability Business Live conference in Melbourne recently and met an impressive array of experts and entrepreneurs from Australia and New Zealand - all chasing what one speaker called the triumph of the transition. In the next few episodes we'll meet some of these transition trumpeters. First up, Ben Symons, a senior natural capital advisor with Climate Friendly, one of Australia's leading carbon and biodiversity consultancies.
https://www.climatefriendly.com/

Biodiversity credits remain somewhat the holy grail in conservation. Imagine being paid to manage nature - not for farming or mining or fishing - but simply for being, nature. Yet like the holy grail, the promise outshines the reality. Carbon credits have struggled to meet expectations. Various attempts like He Waka Eke Noa and the ETS have failed to link markets to nature.
But a new report by the BNZ, Deloitte and The Nature Conservancy predicts a brighter future. ‘Connecting Nature, Climate’ and Capital says demand for high-integrity nature-based carbon credits is strong and growing – with carbon markets projected to grow from NZ$2.5bn today to up to NZ$35.5bn by 2030 - and that New Zealand is uniquely positioned to capitalise.
Well to explain that outrageous optimism Vincent was joined by authors Louise Aitken of Deloitte and Erik van Eyndhoven of the Nature Conservancy.
The report can be found here.