Sustainable business
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Landcare Research is developing tools and processes to help improve the environmental and social performance of firms and business sectors.
This portal provides direct access to Landcare Research’s publications, tools and services relating to:
- Food miles and sustainable exports,
- Sustainable business practices at firm and sector levels,
- Business responses to climate change,
- Corporate sustainability reporting and
- Eco verification.
Online publications and tools
Free of charge online Landcare Research publications and tools
Food miles and sustainable exports
Steps exporters can take to respond to possible export market barriers arising from the food miles debate.- Briefing paper: Food Miles – the international debate and implications for New Zealand exporters
- Briefing paper: Food Miles - practical steps for New Zealand exporters
Sustainable business practices
Ways in which New Zealand business can capitalise on market advantage though sustainable practices.- Greening the Screen environmental toolkit
Our Greening the Screen programme encourages and supports screen companies and productions to improve environmental and social performance. - Food & Beverage Sector Survey. Environmental Practices and Export-Related Requirements: Current Practice and Needs. Report. (123KB)
- Survey: Environmental Export-Related Requirements (41KB)
Landcare Research surveyed food and beverage producers, manufacturers and exporters to find out the environmental hurdles they face in their overseas markets. - Sustainable tourism
Tourism draws increasingly on New Zealand’s natural, social and cultural resources, and there is an opportunity for improving the sector’s economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Business responses to climate change
Programmes to support businesses and organisations reduce and off set carbon emissions.- carboNZero certification programme
The carboNZero programme encourages and supports organisations and businesses, and households to minimize their climate change impacts by providing the tools for them to measure, manage and mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. - Corporate sustainability reporting
Examining corporate sustainability within the NZ context, and the experiences and progress towards corporate sustainability in NZ to date. - Initiating sustainable development reporting: evidence from New Zealand
- Corporate Responsibility in New Zealand - A Case Study .
Eco verification
A programme and supporting research to support businesses achieve eco-verification.- Briefing paper: Eco-labels: a short guide for New Zealand producers
- Enviro–Mark®NZ
Internet–based five–step certification programme that makes appropriate health, safety and environmental management achievable by organisations of all sizes
Services
Landcare Research consultancy services- Sustainability reporting
An advisory service concept that widens the scope of traditional management and reporting to include the social, environmental, and economic performance of an organisation. - Monitoring environmental performance indicators of buildings
Providing strategies to monitor and report on objectives for sustainable building design, using direct performance–based indicators. - carboNZero certification programme
The carboNZero programme encourages and supports organisations and businesses, and households to minimize their climate change impacts - EBEX21®
Emissions/Biodiversity Exchange in the 21st century. Generate carbon credits from forest regeneration projects.
Contacts
Sustainable Business and sustainability reporting |
Monitoring environmental performance indicators |
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carboNZero programme & EBEX21® |
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Research programmes
- Pathways towards sustainability. 2002–2007. This programme focuses on energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from international tourism in New Zealand, especially resulting from tourism transport.
- Building capacity for sustainable development
This programme aims to strengthen the capacity and capability to support sustainable development within government (central and local), throughout business, and within New Zealand’s communities. - Outline of all of Landcare Research’s current research programmes including FRST funded programmes.