Blogs

Q&A with The Warehouse Group on historic solar milestone

SBC recently caught up with David Benattar, The Warehouse Group’s (TWG) Sustainability Lead and SBC Advisory Board member, about TWG’s recent exciting announcement of its historic solar deal with Lodestone […]

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Modern slavery laws – how ready is your organisation?

8, 10, [??], 8,000 – What’s the missing number? The answer is 77. If you answered correctly, you must have been among the 90+ business leaders who joined me at […]

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The Business Case for COP28 

Thoughts from SBC Executive Director Mike Burrell As the opening of COP28 comes hurtling towards us, more New Zealand business than ever before are preparing to make the journey to […]

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Countdown to COP28: Members on the ground

This year’s Conference of the Parties (COP28), which kicks off in Dubai at the end of the month, is set to have a strong focus on business and its leadership […]

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Thriving Communities – equipping your business for growing impact together  

SBC’s Thriving Voices online event series continued last week with our kaputī kōrero focusing on community impact.  Our recently launched report ‘Thriving People – Strengthening the ‘S’ in ESG’ showed […]

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Takeaways from the ‘Strengthening the ‘S’ in ESG’ report launch 

I am very pleased to announce the launch of the ‘Strengthening the ‘S’ in ESG’ report at SBC’s inaugural Thriving People networking event, hosted on 18 October at Fonterra’s offices. […]

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Sustainability Leadership Programme: Thoughts from Nicole Schlichting

Nicole Schlichting, Senior Communications Advisor at SBC, participated in the 2023 Sustainability Leadership Programme (SLP) alongside more than 45 other leaders looking to push the sustainability agenda in their organisations. […]

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It’s time we strengthen the ‘S’ in ESG 

By Robert Perry (Manager Thriving People)   We’re all familiar with Aotearoa New Zealand’s net zero 2050 goal – but what is the equivalent ‘goal’ for social sustainability? Is there one, […]

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Making sense of mental wellbeing at work – thoughts from Robert Perry

SBC recently hosted a Spotlight Series webinar which started a very important conversation around demystifying mental wellbeing at work and shared practical insights, tools and actions leaders can take to help […]

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Pushing the sustainability ceiling: Celebrating the women on SBC’s Advisory Board

International Women’s Day (8 March) is a great opportunity to celebrate and learn from the inspiring wāhine in our lives – and we at SBC don’t have to look far […]

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