The best way to predict the future is to fund and back mission driven people working on time sensitive challenges.

@mhdksafa this. especially the last sentence. so relevant in nature based carbon sequestration research right now

Impact reporting is more than a box-ticking exercise—it’s your passport to global markets.

@dsaezgil An acute example of compound climate risk (compound as its across multiple causes) magnifies the scale of disaster..💔

Regulation isn’t the major driver here, it's 2025 If you’re a high emitter: banks won’t lend you $ investors won’t give you equity customers won’t buy your products employees won’t want to work for you Being a high emissions business in 2025 makes you vulnerable & expensive

High fives for terrific 2025!

Factoid: The oceans contain around ten times more carbon than plants, soils and the atmosphere combined – around 38,000 gigatonnes. (The total amount of carbon currently in the atmosphere is around 860 gigatonnes of carbon.)

Going out with a bang as we near the close of 2024. Yesterday it was made public that we supported Purpose Capital to make history 🥳 as the first Impact Investment fund in New Zealand to have its practices verified against the global standard for integrating impact throughout the investment lifecycle. I was over the moon that a NZ company... The Lever Room was selected as the preferred partner to pioneer this independent verification, assessing the methodology against the best practice Principles for Impact Management framework. This work, overseen by the The Global Impact Investing Network—the leading industry body for impact investing globally—leverages our expertise in Impact Measurement and Management (IMM). I'm excited and hopeful about the project, as it seeks to enable $ capital deployment at scale but with investor confidence and integrity, ultimately driving collective outcomes to help solve global sustainability challenges. Purpose Capital is the first investor to join from NZ! 👏👏👏 👇 👇 Click the link to learn more on how Purpose Capital found engaging with us and to download your copy of the report

RT @_rebeccamills: We'd do well to pinpoint why New Zealanders are consistently ranking recycling as the number 1 most impactful thing they…

When you look at almost any New Zealand landscape outside an alpine zone, you are looking at stored carbon. If you are looking at an ancient podocarp forest in one of our national parks, you are looking at a reservoir of carbon, some of which has been there for many centuries.

If you, like me, you've attended NZ’s Climate Change & Business Conference over the years? we now know that our attendance this year generated emissions of 50.48kgCO2e per person. To put that in possibly more familiar terms... that’s roughly equivalent to 40 bottles of wine per person. 🥂😊 We also know that waste only contributed 0.04 tCO2e, with the conference team taking steps to reduce waste including washing almost 600 lanyards for reuse! Activities with the largest contributions to emissions are in the chart below. The team are taking the footprint of the event seriously and reducing emissions as far as possible. This year we’ve helped them calculate where emissions sit with a view to reducing them even further. We’ve also helped them to remove all residual emissions with the help of nature - a native forest project on a family-owned farm in Marlborough where the owners have committed large parts of their land to forest regeneration by covenanting it and reforesting 368 hectares. The diverse native forest shelters an array of bird species, many types of trees, including podocarps like rimu, kahikatea, and matai, alongside kanuka and mānuka. 🌿 We at the Lever Room are proud to be invited to provide Net Zero certification and carbon removals for NZ’s largest climate change and business conference. This kind of transparency from conference organisers is welcomed  and provides opportunity to understand where best to reduce emissions, even further…

@gauloir @gensler_design we did! - they are considering it and LOVE nz x

In her maiden speech, Nikki Kaye said “I believe in freedom, hard work, determination, courage, an ability to question and challenge, and a commitment to help those most in need.” she also talked about the importance of our environment, being the greatest asset that we have as a country. 💚 so so sad and what a loss😢#RIP Nikki Kay 🙏💙

Great to be interviewed by Eloise Gibson for RNZ Morning Report today... (link to interview 👇) "There's a dominant narrative that we're a small country so it doesn't matter what we do on the world stage, whereas actually if you look at our marine space, we're responsible for a big chunk of the planet. The ocean plays a major role in regulating our climate and can be both a source and sink for carbon." “Mills says oceans have bought us precious time to cut fossil fuel emissions by absorbing both heat (about nine tenth of the heat humans have added to Earth so far) and carbon dioxide, preventing the land surface we live from the feeling anything like the full effects of our greenhouse gas emissions. They could do more. Marine plants are only part of it, she says. "There's also things like ocean-based renewable energy, low carbon ocean-based food...."

@AklCouncil we've seen you've commissioned a massive 18m steel frame Christmas tree with 200 giant steel baubles. We can help you out with calculations on embodied carbon if you're keen to know how it impacts commitments for a low carbon Auckland.. (we're serious not joking and think a bunch of people will be keen to know the carbon footprint of this massive $800k 18m tall steel tree?). Happy to help you out with a carbon model