This Climate Business

Hosted by Podcasts NZ / Vincent Heeringa

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Aug 2026

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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're doing to solve the climate crisis and get NZ down to zero emissions by 2050 – or sooner.

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August 12, 202634 min

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 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.

August 5, 202626 min

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 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.

July 9, 202636 min

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 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.

July 2, 202629 min

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 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/

May 14, 202635 min

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 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 .

May 7, 202635 min

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 problem after climate is social. We all disagree about what food is, how it should be grown and how it should be distributed. It doesn’t have to be this way. In a wide-ranging conversation, Vincent asks Jack to reflect on the future of food to 2100. Jack Bobo is the author of ‘Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices’ and is Executive Director of the Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies at UCLA in the United States. He is speaking at the E Tipu New Zealand Future Food and Fibre Summit in Christchurch in May 2026.

April 8, 202623 min

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 an opportunity to move away from them.

March 30, 202630 min

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 offers Ross Inglis a take on the maturity of the climate debate here, why institutions matter more when governments duck their climate responsibilities, and quick answers to three top climate whataboutisms.

March 19, 202617 min

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 emissions. Ross Inglis asks him to explain.

December 11, 202528 min

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 steps Ross Inglis through a package big on fossil fuels and very quiet about renewables.