Climate Action Leader
2022 AWARD FINALIST
Sponsored by Waka Kotahi
DETA is a carbon and sustainability consulting company. It has one all-encompassing, ambitious climate action goal: to directly impact and be responsible for removing 2 million tonnes of carbon emissions out of the environment by 2030. This is the equivalent of 2.5% of Aotearoa New Zealand’s total carbon emissions.
The goal was formed out of frustration of lack of action. The founders of DETA were committed to carbon reduction and sustainability but were finding their innovative ideas just sitting in a paper in the ‘report drawer’.
DETA aims to give its clients measurable benefits in operation improvements, energy and resource efficiency, decarbonisation and sustainability processes. The company wants to future-proof clients with resources that embed lasting cultural change and put their sustainability journey at the front of decision-making processes.
DETA focuses its work on empowering the industrial and process heat sector to set up and show other business sectors how net-zero is achievable. Many of its clients want to do better but don't know how. Therefore, DETA sees its responsibility as sharing knowledge and empowering change.