Unconventional Gold.
Waste-to-value, bioenergy and the carbon economy in Aotearoa — field notes from the living biorefinery.
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Alimentary Systems is through to the Top 50 of the QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge — from more than 960 applications across 77 countries.
Read the piece →Why the Best Clean Tech in the World Still Can't Get Out of the Lab
Notes from the Tech Tuesday Forum, where six years of science advice at the top of government met a simple question: when does good evidence actually change policy?
Read the piece →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.
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