MEDIA: Business wants to avoid climate change fishbowl

New Zealand Herald report produced in collaboration with the Aotearoa Circle

The Prime Minister has spoken: Failing to adapt to climate change is not an option for her Labour Government; neither is it an option for business.

In the Herald's 2021 Sustainable Business report, Jacinda Ardern presents climate action as an economic opportunity that New Zealand must seize.

Ardern shares her Government's thinking as it prepares its formal response to the Climate Change Commission's recent recommendations on a pathway towards New Zealand meeting its international obligations to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions profile. There are clear messages in this for business.

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Last night, the Aotearoa Circle launched the NZ Centre for Sustainable Finance in Auckland. The two current co-chairs of the Sustainable Finance Forum, Bridget Coates and Ross Pennington, outlined their ambitions for the centre in an interview with Graham Skellern. The centre is another feather in the cap for the Aotearoa Circle's Vicki Watson.

Leading bankers like Westpac's Karen Silk, who also chairs the NZ Sustainable Business Council, HSBC's Burcu Senel, ANZ's Dean Spicer, Rabobank's Todd Charteris, BNZ's Dean Schmidt and ASB's Nigel Annett share how the application of sustainable finance principles to lending is changing the game for business.

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