Unconventional Gold.
Waste-to-value, bioenergy and the carbon economy in Aotearoa — field notes from the living biorefinery.
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What global investors actually look for: inside the international investor panel
Five investors managing billions between them sat down after lunch to answer the question every founder in the room wanted answered: what does it take to get funded — and what does a Series A climate company really look like in 2026?
Read the piece →Scaling from the edge: how Kiwi climate companies actually get into Europe
A textile-waste founder, a scale-up advisor, an ambassador and a returning expat sat down to answer one question — what does it really take to go global? The answers were specific, and occasionally surprising.
Read the piece →The $30 billion circle: inside the bioeconomy breakout
"The bioeconomy isn't one product — it's a circle." A room full of foresters, scientists and founders spent an hour arguing about why New Zealand keeps leaving that circle on the table.
Read the piece →From ambition to adoption: what five parties actually said about climate tech
The summit closed with a cross-party political forum — and for once it wasn't platitudes. Five parties argued, in specifics, about R&D, the "missing middle," procurement, an enduring energy strategy and the bioeconomy. Here is the fullest account of who said what.
Read the piece →"Bring the world to New Zealand": Alice Havill's challenge to Aotearoa's climate-tech founders
The summit opened with a keynote from a Kiwi engineer who left to scale climate companies overseas — and came home with an uncomfortable diagnosis and a very practical plan.
Read the piece →Under One Roof: The Aurora Climate Tech Summit 2026
Why New Zealand's bioeconomy is a deployment problem — not a technology problem.
Read the piece →The Perfect Storm: Why New Zealand's Energy, Waste, and Water Crises All Point to Anaerobic Digestion
Three major forces have converged in the first half of 2026 — and they all validate the BRRP model simultaneously.
Read the piece →Aotearoa Loses 192 Million Tonnes of Topsoil Every Year
That's 7 million dump trucks — one filled every 4.5 seconds, all year. Something has to change.
Read the piece →Five Billion Dollars. Offshore. For what?
Treasury has finally put a number on New Zealand's Paris bill. The only real question left is whether that value leaves the country — or builds something here.
Read the piece →Don't Wait for Policy: Local Action to Accelerate Energy Transitions
Key takeaways from ReEnergising!
Read the piece →The Pacific’s Energy and Waste Future Is Shifting
What we heard at the MFAT Pacific Update 2026 — and why it matters for the work we do.
Read the piece →We're in the Global Top 100
Selected for the 2026 QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge.
Read the piece →Why New Zealand Should Be Making Its Own Biofuels
Not Importing Them
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