Climate Action Leader Award

Climate Action Leader Award

Sponsored by Waka Kotahi / New Zealand Transport Agency

Climate change is generating a myriad of new risks and opportunities, and addressing these challenges must be a priority for businesses. How they respond with innovation and impact will determine whether we succeed in meeting our ‘net zero carbon’ goal for Aotearoa, especially in making significant emissions reductions in the next ‘decade of action’, starting now.

Businesses at the forefront of this response are embedding climate action across their operations. They are reducing their operational emissions, moving towards net zero impact, or even becoming ‘climate positive’. They are adopting and creating new products, services and business models to help us move quickly to a ‘net zero carbon’ Aotearoa. They are innovating to develop transformative solutions to our greatest climate challenges. They are influencing their staff, suppliers and customers to have a much broader and deeper impact on emissions reduction. They are preparing for the effects of climate change. They inspire others to follow.

This award will be presented to an organisation actively leading and delivering impact and scale with their climate action.

This could be either by reducing their own carbon footprint (including supply chain), or demonstrably helping others to do so, including through transformative innovation. 

Congratulations to the finalists for the 2023 Climate Action Leader Award:

• Aro Ha Wellness Retreat
• DETA
• eCoast
• Ecotricity
• Lawson's Dry Hills
• Nature's Flame
• solarZero
• Tāmata Hauhā
• The Institute of Directors’ Chapter Zero New Zealand

Category sponsor:

Waka Kotahi

We asked Waka Kotahi / New Zealand Transport Agency what inspired them to sponsor the Sustainable Business Awards:

“At Waka Kotahi, NZ Transport Agency, we are shifting towards a low carbon, resilient, safe and healthy land transport system. It requires us all to be courageous and commit to deliver the ambitious actions required under the Government’s Emissions Reduction Plan, National Adaptation Plan and the Carbon Neutral Government Programme. Our sustainability action plan, Toitū Te Taiao. and our climate adaptation plan, Tiro Rangi guide us.

For Waka Kotahi this covers a wide range of actions, from providing more travel choices and incentivising the uptake of zero emission vehicles to reducing the embodied carbon in infrastructure construction and maintenance and developing climate scenarios with our partners.

By supporting the Sustainable Business Awards we can support others to innovate and lead. Waka Kotahi is proud to be supporting organisations who are delivering impact and scale with their climate actions with the Climate Action Leader Award.”