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24 February 2026 | VIRTUAL EVENT

re:new Sustainability & Climate Reporting Conference

Unlocking best practices in climate sustainability reporting for greater accountability and smarter decisions

The Framework for Reporting Climate-related Financial Disclosures has been in force for a year, with an expected expansion to more entities. Organisations must understand their obligations for measuring and reporting climate risks. Meanwhile, a global movement is pushing businesses to report on broader sustainability impacts beyond emissions. 

The Sustainability & Climate Reporting Conference will dive into the technical aspects of transparent sustainability and climate reporting. While climate and carbon remain key, the event will explore all ESG dimensions, including biodiversity and social impact. 

Attend the event to learn how to develop systems and processes to produce the consistent, comparable, and quality data that will be required to become compliant and to explore how sustainability reporting be integrated with business strategy. 

Why Attend?

  • Addressing mandatory sustainability and climate reporting requirements, including TNFD
  • Overcoming challenges with inconsistent and inaccurate data
  • Aligning sustainability goals with business strategy, financial planning, and risk management
  • Communicating sustainability efforts to foster trust through transparency
  • Adapting to emerging trends in sustainability reporting and regulatory changes

Key themes

Strengthening Climate Reporting

Learn from the first two years of mandatory climate disclosures and prepare for the 2025 standard updates.

Managing Risk and Emissions

Gain practical insights into reporting Scope 3 emissions and assessing climate risk. Collect better data, price climate impacts, and turn disclosures into actions.

Governance and Global Alignment

Explore how boards, investors, and frameworks are driving future sustainability reporting. Examine board capability, investor expectations, and complying to ISSB and TNFD standards.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Our 2026 key lineup brings together influential leaders and innovators in sustainability.
Check out more today.

Dr Belinda Mathers

Chief Science and Advisory Officer


Toitu Envirocare

Simon Tucker

Group Director, Global External Affairs


Fonterra

Mark Baker-Jones

Director, Policy & Regulation

Te Whakahaere

Agenda

Agenda to be announced

8:45

Virtual platform opens

9:00

Opening remarks from the Chair

9:10

Opening address: Where are we now - mapping the current landscape of sustainability reporting and Climate Related Disclosure in New Zealand

  • Exploring the latest developments and changes to the New Zealand climate reporting regime and standards

  • Examining the Proposed 2025 Amendments to Climate and Assurance Standards

  • Sharing the learning from the first 2 years of mandatory reporting

  • How can we improve the clarity and comparability of reporting?

  • Aligning NZ climate standards with international developments

  • What to expect next in relation to climate and sustainability regulation and standard-setting?


9:50

Case study: Identifying lessons from our first 2 Climate Statements

  • How did our approach change and develop from the fist to the second climate statements?

  • What costly mistakes did we make and learn from?

  • Sharing the beneficial practices we have developed and refined

  • Developing our reporting strategy and responding to potential widening of the scope of reporting include transition plans and financial estimates of risks

  • Refining our financial and risk reporting: Pricing climate into financial statements

  • From statements to action: Achieving the integration of Climate Disclosures with enterprise strategy by aligning targets, transition plans and metrics

  • Preparing for assurance and regulatory reviews through strong audit trail & record-keeping

James Paterson, Head of Sustainable Finance, ASB Corporate Banking

10:30

Morning break

11:00

Understanding the reporting and assurance of Scope 3 emissions

  • Examining proposed changes to disclosure and assurance requirements for Scope 3 emissions

  • Developing reliable systems to capture enterprise-wide emissions data across the business value and supply chain to effectively report scope 3 emissions

  • Providing practical guidance on mapping value-chain emissions

  • Improving the methods used for reconciliation and estimation to ensure consistency and comparability

  • Improving the methods used for reconciliation and estimation to ensure consistency and comparability

  • Examining boundary setting, supplier engagement and materiality tests

  • Using Scope 3 reporting to drive better understanding of your value chain emissions and improve you decision-making

  • Forging partnerships to tackle the challenges of Scope 3 Emissions

Barbara Nebel, Chief Executive officer, Thinkstep-anz

11:40

Analysing climate risk: Mapping financial impact through scenario analysis

  • Understanding the distinctions between physical climate risks and transition risks such as regulatory changes and market shifts in climate reporting

  • Aligning reporting practices with established frameworks to ensure compliance with evolving global regulations

  • How forward-thinking companies have embedded climate risk considerations into their overall business strategies to enhance resilience and sustainability

  • Strategies for adjusting climate risk assessments in real-time

  • Examining wow to translate physical and transition risk into financial metrics and disclosures

  • Building an understanding of the cross departmental (finance, risk, strategy and more) requirements to be able to credibly quantify the financial impacts of climate risk

  • Acting on climate risk - where are New Zealand businesses in making the investments that will enable us to address, mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change - how do you actually move forward in a competitive environment and make that investment?


12:20

Lunch

13:20

Delivering effective governance, strategy & board oversight of Climate related disclosures and ESG reporting

  • Developing board capability and bridging current oversight gaps: How can teams support directors to become fluent in climate risks and opportunities so that oversight of disclosure processes is effective?

  • Achieving alignment with core business strategy and ensuring disclosures are tied to capital allocation and risk appetite and not siloed within the work sustainability teams

  • Integrating formal climate change responsibilities into Board or Board Committee Terms of Reference and role descriptions

  • How can we address a lack of integration of climate performance into executive remuneration?

  • Exploring ESG reputational risk: What keeps boards awake?

Mark Baker-Jones, Director, Policy and Regulation, Te Whakahaere Āhuarangi

14:00

What do investors want to see? – Understanding investor and stewardship expectations around sustainability reporting

  • Examining Investor perspectives on the quality and value of sustainability and environmental reporting and climate disclosures

  • Understanding investor stewardship priorities,- sharing the findings from recent investor surveys on NZ investor expectations

  • Understanding climate investing – what are the drivers and barriers?

  • Ensuring that voice of finance and investors is heard and contributes to a policy framework that supports investment into climate solutions and aligns with the net zero transition

  • Developing a practical checklist for disclosures that signal credibility to capital markets


14:40

Afternoon break

15:00

Analysing developing global climate and sustainability frameworks – what do these mean for businesses looking to deliver growth in international business

  • Recognising change in the global landscape around sustainability – the politicisation of ESG in the USA v the continued rapid evolution and deepening of climate policy, regulation and reporting across the EU, UK, Australia, Canada – what does mean for businesses in NZ looking to trade in these jurisdictions?

  • What are the signals we are seeing so far from business, capital and major companies around the world in response?

  • A practical guide for exporters to the key global climate disclosure and sustainability reporting frameworks

  • Examining the role of assurance and accreditation in enabling market access for NZ companies

  • How to ensure you have on the best and right fit globally recognised accreditation for your ESG reporting

  • Understanding what businesses need to prepare for as regulations converge and align across borders

  • What is the interplay with ISSB/AASB/IFRS developments - how will this influence how NZ’s standards may change?

  • Exploring how the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is working to develop a global baseline of comparable and consistent sustainability disclosures and information around sustainability-related risk

Simon Tucker, Group Director, Global External Affairs, Fonterra

15:40

Understanding the role of reporting in the delivering global business aspirations to protect and restore nature and biodiversity

  • Tackling the impact of business on nature and biodiversity - what is the role of business in this space?

  • Understanding how global regulatory frameworks are making it critical for companies to accelerate their action on the biodiversity agenda:

  • Examining the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

  • Exploring The Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

  • Strategies businesses can use to reduce their biodiversity impact

  • Undertaking natured based accounting and assessing natured based business risk

  • Delivering guidance for organisations on how to measure and manage and report their nature-based impacts, material dependencies and impacts in order to align with the TNFD

Belinda Mathers, Chief Science and Advisory Officer, Toitū Envirocare

16:20

Summary remarks from the Chair & end of conference

Speakers

Speakers to be announced

Dr Belinda Mathers

Chief Science and Advisory Officer
Toitu Envirocare
Dr Belinda Mathers is the Chief Science and Advisory Officer for Toitū Envirocare. Belinda has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Monash University and a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Chemical and Process Engineering from Canterbury University. Belinda leads our Science and Advisory function, ensuring we keep on top of scientific research, changes in best practice, and changing market needs. Belinda has extensive experience in GHG emissions management and verification across many sectors, including verifying or certifying close to 1,000 emissions inventories over the past 20 years.

Simon Tucker

Group Director, Global External Affairs
Fonterra
Simon Tucker is the Group Director of Global External Affairs at Fonterra. In this role he leads teams responsible for Fonterra’s global trade strategy, its corporate sustainability, environmental partnerships and community and social investment programmes, the company’s relationships with local and central government in New Zealand and with foreign governments, and Fonterra’s industry partners.Simon has spent over twelve years in the New Zealand dairy industry including in leadership roles at DairyNZ, the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand and with Fonterra’s US-based business. During his career, Simon has also spent considerable time working for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade with assignments in Tehran, Washington and as New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Canada. He also spent several years working in Parliament as adviser to the Minister for Trad

James Paterson

Head of Sustainable Finance
ASB Bank
James Paterson is the Head of Sustainable Finance at ASB Bank, where he leads debt structuring and customer engagement in support of environmental and social outcomes.  With a focus on green, social, and sustainability-linked lending, James has supported ASB’s aspiration to achieve a cumulative sustainable lending target of $6.5 billion by 2030. James is a member of the technical working group for the development of the New Zealand Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, and a Board member for Protect our Winters Aotearoa.

Barbara Nebel

Chief Executive Officer
thinkstep-anz
Barbara describes her job as a translator, translating sustainability into traditional business language. Together with her team, she delivers a full range of sustainability services from strategy and materiality assessments through to detailed Life Cycle Assessments and Cradle to Cradle® projects. Barbara has worked with organisations in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and Europe, effectively linking sustainability with business value. The founder and current president of the Life Cycle Association New Zealand (LCANZ), Barbara initiated the Australasian EPD Programme. She is a member of the International EPD system and on the Steering Group for the Climate Leaders Coalition. Barbara has chaired the New Zealand working group for the development of ISO standards for Carbon Foot printing, is a Certified LCA Practitioner, and an associate editor for the International Journal of LCA. Barbara is on the Steering Committee of the Climate Leaders Coalition and the Executive Committee of the German New Zealand Chamber of Commerce.

Mark Baker-Jones

Director, Policy & Regulation
Te Whakahaere
Mark is a strategic adviser and climate governance expert with more than 20 years’ experience advising government, business, and finance leaders. A qualified lawyer, he leads Te Whakahaere Āhuarangi Ltd, a specialist climate strategy firm. His current work focuses on transition planning, regulatory alignment, and climate risk disclosure. He specialises in the quantification and costing of climate-related financial risk and regularly advises on CRFD, ESG integration, and governance reform across Aotearoa New Zealand’s public and private sectors.

Sponsors

Sponsors to be announced

RiskNZ

AICPA & CIMA

Sustainable Business Network

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  • Speaking and thought leadership opportunities
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Request our prospectus and take a look at the range of packages to suit your requirements.

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Contact sponsorship@brightstar.co.nz for more information or to book. 

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