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Wellington doctoral candidate John Watt was today named the top emerging scientist in the Prime Minister’s science awards for his research aimed at reducing vehicle exhaust pollution.
Mr Watt, who last year won $10,000 as part of his MacDiarmid young scientist of the year prize, today collected $150,000 - including $100,000 to be used to further [...]

A bold new bid by Marks and Spencer to become the world’s most sustainable retailer by 2015 sends an important signal to New Zealand businesses in the export supply chain.
The UK retailer is launching 80 major new commitments under a new eco and ethical plan. It will involve:
converting 2.7 billion food, clothing and home items [...]

Aquaflow working with Honeywell’s UOP on U.S. Department of Energy algal project
Kiwi clean tech company reports breakthrough in US market
New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation announced today that it will be working with Honeywell’s UOP on a United States Department of Energy cooperative agreement project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide and cultivate algae for [...]

Hon Tim Groser
Minister of Trade
Minister for International Climate Change Negotiations
Address To Kea China
Beijing, China
I am delighted to join KEA China and your guests here in Beijing this morning. It is skilled professionals like you, not just the intrinsic strengths of the NZ economy, who count amongst our most successful exports to China. You represent a [...]

The Government today announced that New Zealand is joining the Copenhagen Accord on climate change and is submitting its existing conditional 2020 target range.
“The Copenhagen Accord is a constructive step forward to developing a comprehensive global deal on climate change,” Climate Change Issues Minister Nick Smith said.
“Joining this accord reinforces New Zealand’s ongoing commitment to [...]

New Zealand today offered to share its expertise in green technology with India to produce clean energy and build eco-friendly transport system.
“New Zealand has a competitive advantage in green technology. I know India has a great interest in building renewable energy and transport system,” New Zealand Trade Commissioner to New Delhi Cliff Fuller said here [...]

Paint developer and retailer Resene believes it has found the key ingredient to producing the world’s first sustainable paint, according to the New Zealand Herald.
The company has been developing a sustainable, waterborne paint following its win in August last year of a $1 million research and development grant. The award was part of Crown institute [...]

NZ should be in the vanguard of green industry, says Dave Feickert.
The critical issue for the future of New Zealand’s economic performance is the survival of its clean and green brand.
Sound macro-economic policy is needed to set the framework, as Bryan Gould argued yesterday, and lifting productivity, improving human capital and boosting innovation, as Bill [...]

The Nelson office of global technical services firm Aurecon has won the bid to carry out a feasibility study for a major development at Port Nelson.
Aurecon will carry out an in-depth study on the scope of a proposed large-scale private “Green Port” development at Port Nelson.
The project, named A Green Port for Black Boats, aims [...]

A Bill regulating the import of illegal and unsustainable tropical timber could benefit New Zealand forestry to the tune of $270 million per year as well as help save the rainforests, Green MP Catherine Delahunty said today. The Customs and Excise (Sustainable Forestry) Bill would benefit our economy and world climate.
A Bill regulating the import of [...]