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This Climate Business

Podcasts NZ / Vincent Heeringa

This Climate Business is the Kiwi podcast about turning the climate crisis into an opportunity. Every week host Vincent Heeringa talks to entrepreneurs, investors and experts about what they...

Episodes

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A Better Way to Move - Tim Adriaansen, All Aboard

What would a greener, safer, more efficient transport system look like? What would it take to build one right across New Zealand? Transport...

28:09Oct 14, 2026

Hope for practitioners - Suzy Giles and Fiona Stephenson

Communicating sustainability has become a hard task thanks to the change in politics and effects of economic headwinds. But somebody's got t...

30:59Oct 7, 2026

What does an economist actually do, and what can economics tell us about climate change?

In this episode of This Climate Business , Vicktoria Blake talks with Shamubeel Eaqub, Chief Economist at Simplicity, about how economists m...

33:07Sep 17, 2026

The Sustainable Last Mile: Liam Harrison, Pedals Couriers

Dunedin's Pedals Couriers is the last-mile specialist that delivers anything up to a 65-kilogram beer keg entirely by bicycle. Founder Liam...

21:02Sep 8, 2026

Kate Meyer: Making Environmental Impact Visible

What if products carried environmental labels as familiar and useful as nutrition facts? Dr. Kate Meyer, Founder and CEO of the Planetary Ac...

36:45Aug 28, 2026

Going Solar: One Couple’s experience - Mark Graham

What happens when you stop thinking about putting solar panels on your roof and actually do it? Auckland's Mark Graham has just done it and...

22:43Aug 24, 2026

Sarah Bogle: From Climate Risk to Climate Resilience

As climate impacts become more visible across Aotearoa, the question is no longer whether we adapt, but how. Sarah Bogle, co-convenor of the...

34:47Aug 13, 2026

Moods, swings and wins! Welcome new host, Vicktoria Blake

Climate wins and climate losses - how are we feeling about it all? Vincent and Ross discuss the state of climate action with new host Vickto...

26:08Aug 6, 2026

Land, data & decision-making - Rebecca Mills, Lever Room

Imagine being able to bring climate into long-term financial forecasts - not just this year but 100-years ahead. Canopi is the latest climat...

36:18Jul 9, 2026

Australian biodiversity on the march - Ben Symons, Climate Friendly

Vincent attended the Sustainability Business Live conference in Melbourne recently and met an impressive array of experts and entrepreneurs...

29:53Jul 3, 2026

The coming boom in biodiversity credits - Louise Aitken and Erik van Eyndhoven

Biodiversity credits remain somewhat the holy grail in conservation. Imagine being paid to manage nature - not for farming or mining or fish...

35:44May 15, 2026

Food fighters - politics and food with Jack Bobo

Jack Bobo is a food futurist and keynote speaker at E Tipu New Zealand Future Food and Fibre Summit . He argues the food system’s hardest pr...

35:28May 8, 2026

Healing the Oil Junkie – Transport Mode Shift in NZ – Kirsten Corson

Sustainable transport advocate Kirsten Corson tells Ross Inglis that the war on Iran both exposes our dependence on imported oils and offers...

23:09Apr 9, 2026

NZ's Climate Performance, Seen from the Outside – John Lang

Wondering how well we are doing with cutting emissions? London-based climate communicator John Lang runs the ruler over NZ's performance and...

30:15Mar 30, 2026

An insurance industry outsider's take on climate change – Michael Stiassny

The outgoing chair of major NZ insurer Tower says climate change is costing lives and money but there are bigger fish to fry before we cut e...

17:33Mar 19, 2026

Unwrapping Our Latest Energy Package - Professor Barry Barton

What does October's energy policy announcement mean for the future of NZ's electricity market and the climate? Law professor Barry Barton st...

28:05Dec 11, 2025

Big Storage Batteries Are Here. Can They Fix Our Electricity Market? – Dr Jen Purdie

Earlier this year New Zealand's first and largest big storage battery began selling into the grid; there are signs that it is already soften...

20:05Nov 18, 2025

Sneaky sustainability - Orba Shoes

Every year the fashion industry produces over 24 billion shoes made largely of synthetics, with little regard for the materials sourced, the...

31:42Nov 13, 2025

The Low-Waste House – Paul Webster-Young, Twin Solutions

Auckland builder Paul Webster-Young is turning a new home for his sister into a case study for construction that sends less waste to landfil...

21:53Nov 9, 2025

Your next house doesn't have to be a climate criminal – Mike Hartley, Lloyd Hartley

New Zealand's houses have come a long way since the '70s but there's plenty we can do to make them more sustainable. Auckland architect Mike...

24:18Oct 28, 2025