{"id":1364,"date":"2021-09-16T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2021-09-16T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:27:00","slug":"green-energy-could-deliver-trillions-to-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Green energy could deliver trillions to economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world looks to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, New Zealand businesses could benefit from a low carbon future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news_crops\/130231\/eight_col_6127181_m.jpg?1631751798\" alt=\"no caption \" width=\"720\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0123 RF<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Western Union Business Solutions&#8217; latest green energy report says that decisive action by governments and business could deliver $26 trillion in global economic benefits by the end of the decade, and create 65 million new low-carbon jobs.<\/p>\n<p>WUBS currency strategist Steven Dooley said in particular, small businesses that deal with larger businesses would have a competitive advantage if they were low carbon due to growing scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Larger businesses are really focusing on their green credentials as a point of differentiation with their competitors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So if you&#8217;re dealing with an end retailer, or dealing with businesses that will eventually sell your products on, it&#8217;s becoming increasingly important to be able to have those green credentials and that&#8217;s really what we&#8217;re looking at in this report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also suggested that shifting to net zero could be the &#8220;greatest commercial opportunity&#8221; of this period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many companies have shown it is possible and profitable to adopt sustainable de-carbonising plans, even in challenging times, including those presented by Covid-19. Whilst there is still a long way to go, neglecting climate action from a business strategy may have growing consequences,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dooley said businesses should embed science-based targets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>RNZ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world looks to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, New Zealand businesses could benefit from a low carbon future. Photo:\u00a0123 RF The Western Union Business Solutions&#8217; latest green energy report says that decisive action by governments and business could deliver $26 trillion in global economic benefits by the end of the decade, and create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,222,174,177],"tags":[28,59,223],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","category-nz-news","category-world","tag-business","tag-featured","tag-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}