Cutting the carbon emissions of our buildings is critical to achieving New Zealand’s low emissions future – and it will require more than focusing solely on carbon as the instrument of change. A recent report highlighted New Zealand’s problem with embodied carbon in construction. But we think carbon is only part of the story and a wider approach is needed to clean up the construction industry, which includes a bigger role for New Zealand’s metal manufacturing sector. Read our insight…

Why are metals sector organisations so critical to New Zealand’s transition to a circular and low emission economy? Nick Collins, CEO of Metals New Zealand and member of the Sustainable Steel Council recently provided the answers an oral submission to the Environment Select Committee on the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon Bill) Amendment Act. A written version of the submissions is available for download here.

Taking the journey to carbon neutrality isn’t as hard as you might think. Nelson-based Kernohan Engineering, a maintenance service company supporting the timber, oil and gas, fishing, dairy, cement and mining industries, has recently been certified carbon neutral. Kernohan Engineering wanted to understand its carbon footprint and to know that it was offsetting its emissions to achieve carbon neutrality. This was part of its goal to not only supporting New Zealand’s transition to a net zero carbon economy by 2050,…

We are delighted to launch our new website. It marks the re-launch of the Sustainable Steel Council with a new vision and mission to enable our local steel industry to play its vital role in accelerating New Zealand’s transition to a circular and low-emissions economy. We’ve been thrilled to work with Glue Creative and Latitude Strategy & Communications who have done a great job in designing and building the site to reflect our new focus. The Sustainable Steel Council’s work…