Decarbonising businesses makes sense when it is “economic and sustainable”, the head of BusinessNZ Energy Council says in the wake of the Climate Change Commission’s plan for a cleaner future
Cruise ships have been banned from New Zealand since the pandemic began, but the industry hopes moves in Australia will put pressure for action here too.
The vast majority of visitors were expected to be New Zealanders, but anecdotally there was evidence the Aussie twang was increasingly common in the North and South Island tourism capitals.
More than a quarter of mortgages that were in deferral last year are yet to be back to making full repayments, data from credit reporting firm Centrix shows.
Hawke’s Bay growers and seafood firms are concerned over produce getting to market as New Zealand’s supply chain to the rest of the world remains critically constrained.