Carbon, climate and sustainability data is the new rule of participation. Sustainability Business Live Melbourne 2026 showed that the businesses able to trust their data, defend their claims and turn reporting into decisions will be better placed to access capital, manage risk, build resilience and spot opportunity.

Your carbon footprint can change even when your business hasn’t. Updated emission factors across New Zealand and Australia may affect reported totals, targets and assurance work especially for organisations with material waste, travel, freight, electricity, fuel, agriculture or spend-based Scope 3 emissions.

Here’s what to check so your inventory stays accurate, useful and easy to explain.

Lever Room helped One NZ turn its refurbished phone pilot into a credible, evidence-backed customer proposition - quantifying the carbon benefit of choosing refurbished over new through product carbon footprint modelling, and giving the business a robust basis for communications, commercial decisions and circular economy strategy.

The Living House is here. Having recently announced our partnership with RTA Studio and Fisher & Paykel to deliver this solution -it’s clear that New Zealanders are keen on more affordable path to home ownership - and one that provides a warm, healthy, timber home, powered by solar energy.

The results are out! We were selected to provide Net Zero Certification for New Zealand’s 2024 Climate Change & Business Conference.

Carbon footprint analysis snapshots:
💡 Total per attendee emissions were 50.48kgCO2e
💡 Waste only contributed 0.04 tCO2e, with the conference team taking steps to reduce waste including washing almost 600 lanyards! for reuse at next year's conference.

An assessment of the first tranche of mandatory Climate-Related Disclosures: How are we stacking up?

New Zealand has a unique opportunity to lead the charge in sustainable construction practices, particularly in the realm of mass timber.

In the first of our ‘Building Change’ series, Rebecca Mills, founder of The Lever Room, summarises the present state of carbon accounting in New Zealand and finds it on the cusp of a transformation.

We were asked to create a true picture of New Zealand businesses’ climate progress.