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Homes That Count: The Living House
Homes That Count tells the sustainability story behind The Living House, the home designed in Aotearoa, built in six weeks, with modelling showing it can be net climate-positive over a 50-year life under stated assumptions.
The Lever Room’s contribution is the carbon intelligence: an evidence-based, standards-aligned whole-building LCA that models full life-cycle impacts (materials, construction, and operations) and finds a climate-positive outcome when accounting for timber carbon storage and exported solar electricity.
Measuring What Matters
We’re pleased to share our latest report from Measuring What Matters a global initiative focused on making social and environmental impact as measurable, comparable, and decision-useful as financial performance.
This paper cuts through a noisy landscape to map what’s working, what’s missing, and why inconsistent measurement keeps progress hard to trust, hard to compare, and easy to over-claim.
Our aim is simple: help leaders direct capital and effort to outcomes that actually move the needle. We’ll continue to build and openly share practical tools that make sustainability reporting and impact measurement clearer, stronger, and far more actionable.
Ocean Roadmap for New Zealand
The Ocean Roadmap is a nationally significant collective blueprint for how we protect and restore the ecological health of our ocean and build an ocean economy that delivers nutritious food and genuinely innovative solutions.
Built with guidance from a wide mix of contributors, it distils a clear pathway through a famously complex landscape - turning competing priorities into a shared direction of travel.
This discussion document is designed to spark momentum: a catalyst for sharper conversations, stronger collaboration, and the next wave of action.
Purpose Capital: Investment Fund Impact Verification
The Lever Room supported Purpose Capital to make history as the first Impact Investment fund in New Zealand to have its practices verified against the International Principles for Impact Management.
Tech Enabled Impact Measurement: Raukawa Energy
In partnership with Raukawa, we’re thrilled to launch the Raukawa Energy Innovation Project.
While many people are adopting energy innovations like solar PV and electric vehicles to reduce costs and emissions, others cannot afford reliable electricity to adequately heat their homes. This project demonstrates positive, data-driven solutions to energy hardship.
It’s been a privilege to walk alongside Raukawa on this work. The project advances iwi-led, whānau-centred, and mana-enhancing energy initiatives that address energy hardship and health inequities, while supporting mana motuhake and tino rangatiratanga for Raukawa whānau through the energy transition.
Build Back Better: A Non-Partisan Covid-19 Recovery Framework
Build Back Better: A Non-Partisan Covid-19 Recovery Framework is a decisive, non-ideological playbook for one of the biggest investment moments New Zealand has faced in generations.
It translates uncertainty into practical choices — helping leaders direct recovery spending toward outcomes that will last: healthier communities, stronger resilience, and a more prosperous future.