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All About COP16 In The NewsInternat'lOur Thinking

All About COP16

Written by EnviroStrat's Natasha Jacobs.   Q – What is COP? COP stands for Conference of the Parties. It’s a global summit where nature takes centre stage. COP16, the 16th iteration, has been taking place over the last two weeks, in Cali, Colombia.  Not to be confused with the Climate Change COP taking place in Azerbaijan next month, COP16 is the Biodiversity COP, and aims to drive international co-operation to tackle the global biodiversity crisis. Q – What are we learning this year? Highly anticipated this year, is country progress on COP15’s Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, a landmark global agreement, established in 2022, aimed at halting…
Sophie Bradly
November 4, 2024
Rural delivery In The News

Rural delivery

EnviroStrat's Senior Project Manager, Rebecca Barclay was interviewed for episode 6 of Rural Delivery about how the GreenWave Aotearoa project is exploring the viability of a domestic seaweed farming industry. Rural Delivery Episode 6 | April 2023
EnviroStrat
July 21, 2023
Catalysing nature-based solutions In The News

Catalysing nature-based solutions

EnviroStrat's Sustainability Director, Cerasela Stancuwas interviewed for a podcast on Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS. Cerasela, along with UBS Optimus Foundation’s CEO Maya Ziswiler and Patti Chu of Mana Impact shared the key ambitions of the Catalysing Nature-based Solutions: Perspectives and Practices for Developing High Quality Projects report released in November 2022. “If there is one overarching and reassuring finding it is this aspect of multiple benefits that nature-based solutions provide and the fact that they really deliver value for money.” Nature-based Solutions, The Bulletin with UBS 429 - Radio | Monocle | December 2022
EnviroStrat
July 21, 2023
The critical role of accounting in proactively managing freshwater In The News

The critical role of accounting in proactively managing freshwater

Water accounting has a critical role in proactively managing freshwater and making informed decisions. That’s the message EnviroStrat’s Cerasela Stancu shared with attendees at the 2023 New Zealand National Freshwater Conference. Drawing on EnviroStrat’s experience and insights, Cerasela spoke about our application of the UN SEEA water approach in the Hawke’s Bay region, producing the first systematic set of water accounts in New Zealand to inform Hawke's Bay Regional Council's Regional Security Water Programme. Cerasela Stancu at the National Freshwater Conference - YouTube | March 2023
EnviroStrat
July 21, 2023
Moving to a circular bioeconomy – expert reaction In The News

Moving to a circular bioeconomy – expert reaction

How can we reduce waste and pollution, and regenerate natural environments, while still keeping our economy running? Nigel Bradly, EnviroStrat CEO, spoke to the Science Media Centre of New Zealand about the idea of a circular bioeconomy. “Building Aotearoa New Zealand’s circular marine bioeconomy is an exciting opportunity to leverage the country’s abundant marine resources for sustainable economic growth.” Moving to a circular bioeconomy - Expert Reaction - Science Media Centre | February 2023
EnviroStrat
July 21, 2023
Where is all the climate change agri innovation funding? In The News

Where is all the climate change agri innovation funding?

EnviroStrat CEO, Dr Nigel Bradly was interviewed for this newsroom article examining why New Zealand isn’t leading the world when it comes to funding innovation around agricultural emissions reduction technologies. "The New Zealand investment community is highly conservative by comparison with investors overseas," Bradly says. "There's no shortage of investment capital looking for climate innovation, but New Zealand investors don't walk the talk in the same way they do elsewhere. This is especially the case for non tech climate investment - nature-based solutions for example are woefully underinvested. There is not the same willingness to take risks. Here we are…
EnviroStrat
October 21, 2022
Growth framework developed for New Zealand’s seaweed industry In The News

Growth framework developed for New Zealand’s seaweed industry

Dr Nigel Bradly, EnviroStrat CEO, was interviewed for Radio NZ about New Zealand’s new Seaweed Sector Framework. “The growth potential is huge … Enabling the growth is part of it. Part of it is developing the know-how and skills in farming as well as the processing to create a scalable, high value, end-to-end supply chain. The more we’re able to scale up the production of sustainably grown seaweed, the more confidence we will have to invest heavily into high value opportunities. Listen to the radio interview here. Growth framework developed for New Zealand's seaweed industry | October 2022
EnviroStrat
October 21, 2022
First seaweed planting in Coromandel waters historic moment for aquaculture In The News

First seaweed planting in Coromandel waters historic moment for aquaculture

Stuff reported on New Zealand’s first planting of hatchery grown seaweed in Coromandel waters, noting that it could be the beginning of a new sector for the aquaculture industry. Alongside Dr Nigel Bradly, EnviroStrat CEO, GreenWaveNZ partners Dr Rebecca Lawton from the University of Waikato and Lucas Evans, CEO of Premium Seas were interviewed about the pilot. First seaweed planting in Coromandel waters historic moment for aquaculture | October 2022
EnviroStrat
October 21, 2022

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Innovative three-year seaweed farming pilot to demonstrate seaweed’s potential for New Zealand’s blue economy

GreenWave NZ is an innovative three-year regenerative ocean farming pilot that began in mid-2021.

Demystifying the Blue Economy in New Zealand

Watch Dr Nigel Bradly’s presentation to the Changing Tides Tai Tōrua: Ocean resilience in Aotearoa conference | June 2021.

Supporting the growth of New Zealand’s rapidly evolving seaweed sector

EnviroStrat has been a significant contributor to the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge blue economy workstream. 

Blending aquaculture and conservation to turn an ecological pest into a culinary delicacy, enabling ocean habitat restoration

By utilising marginal Kina from barrens, Kinanomics offers a commercial incentive to remove these malnourished urchins from our seafloor.

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