Resources

We are working alongside Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei to advance emission reductions through a foundational Climate Position Statement and Climate Transition Action Plan.

In response to the large amount of interest and engagement received in relation to New Zealand’s first Climate Directory published in 2022, we’ve provided a 2023 update.

This Ocean Roadmap for New Zealand discussion document was a collective effort, guided by diverse contributors.

To help distil a pathway forward in what is undeniably a complex landscape, we’ve sought to understand a broad range of perspectives. It is our hope that this Roadmap will support and catalyse further cross-sector conversations.  

The recently formed International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is aiming to simplify the global sustainability disclosure landscape, reducing the complexity of having multiple sources of reporting guidance

It’s now issued its first two IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards.

We were asked to create a true picture of New Zealand businesses’ climate progress. Today, the results have been published.

The process to develop a meaningful assessment methodology for our biggest companies was quite a journey.

Click the link to the detailed Climate Action Report Card of the 20 companies which also shows our finalised assessment approach.

We’re thrilled to share that The Lever Room has been invited to join a global multi-disciplinary consultative group to contribute to the development of a nature-related risk management and disclosure framework.

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) was established in response to the growing need to factor nature into financial and business decisions. The TNFD is a global initiative with the ultimate aim of supporting a shift in global financial flows away from nature-negative outcomes and toward nature-positive outcomes.

Over several decades, the effectiveness of sustainability measurement and reporting has improved due to numerous standard-setting initiatives, and revisions of existing tools and models. The question remains, however, whether current measurement and reporting models adequately address a set of 21st century conditions and challenges.

Sustainable Development Performance Indicators help close the ‘Sustainability Context Gap’ — in which less than 1% of sustainability reports produced from 2000-2013 measured corporate performance in the context of ecological sustainability thresholds.

Who’s already helping to lead us to a better future?

A growing number of organisations are helping to power up New Zealand’s transition to a low carbon future. We’re shining a light on their contributions, while acknowledging there is much more work to do. We now need to resource co-ordinated collective action at scale to immediately drawdown greenhouse gas emissions.

Today, we are releasing a Climate Solutions Directory, to positively support these efforts.

Click ‘Read More’ to download your PDF copy.

After years in the making, we’re pleased to publicly share the first contribution from our newly launched initiative Measuring What Matters. Measuring What Matters is part of a global effort to advance our collective ability to measure and report on social and environmental impact, alongside financial impact.

Our first contribution provides a comprehensive overview of both sustainability reporting and impact measurement movements and the vision for Measuring What Matters.

Click ‘Read More’ to download your PDF copy of the report.

As project collaborators we're pleased to able to share this new report that takes a systems-level perspective to reveal the root cause issues for New Zealand’s housing sector. 'How We Live' proposes a set of collective actions that if taken together will help shift our housing ecosystem from where it is today, to where we want it to be tomorrow.

We’re pleased to finally be able to share we’ve been officially appointed to the Investment Outcomes and Impact category for New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment, Science and Research Panel.

Waikato Regional Council have now adopted a Climate Action Roadmap.

We’re thrilled that each of the 9 pathways and all 47 of the actions and commitments we recommended in our Roadmap proposal May 2020 have been integrated, making up well over 90% of the final response and commitments in the roadmap.

Around the world, impact investing is attracting interest from individuals, philanthropists, institutions and governments, all seeking to advance practical solutions to social and environmental challenges.