Dynamic Business nzherald.co.nz/business Friday, December 4, 2020 EXCLUSIVE REPORT DELOITTE TOP200 AWARDS COVID-19RESET Kiwi companies springback LizCoutts Lucie Chairperson of the Year Drummond Mercury Young Executive of the Year TimWilliams CFOMainfreight Chief Financial Officer of the Year Lewis Gradon CEOFisher &PaykelHealthcare Chief Executive of the Year Fisher &Paykel Ian Taylor Healthcare VisionaryLeader Companyofthe Year Deloitte Top200 Congratulations to all this year’s Top 200 winners! deloitte.co.nz ©2020. For information, contact Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. top200.co.nz B2 nzherald.co.nz | The New ZealandHerald | Friday, December4,2020 Pressure makes aDiamond Covid-19 has taught us all agreat deal Hemisphere’s biggest agricultural show BusinessNZ and our project sponsors, and, premier business awards when their own about resilience. As acountry, as Fieldays which was held virtually, and, to Auckland Business Chamber CEO diaries were under pressure. businesses and personally. (for once) did not see the reports team up Michael Barnett whose relationship with The Herald Business Reports team Regular Herald Business Reports at dawn to drive down to Mystery Creek the Cordis hotel assisted with date shifts. wishes all readers, contributors and readers will have noticed the publication for KPMG’s Leaders’ breakfast. The Infrastructure report shifted from sponsors asafe and Covid-free Christmas dates of the 2020 reports were out of sync. The last two months have been a August to November to coincide with and New Year holiday season. On March 6, we published abumper pressure cooker. InfrastructureNZ’s annual Building We’re looking forward to coming back edition of the Herald’s Project Auckland, The Mood of the Boardroom CEOs Nations symposium which was held in recharged in the New Year with our first jam-packed with exclusive insights into Election Survey and breakfast event was person. report — Project Auckland —and the the city’s infrastructure developments as deferred twice. First, due to Auckland’s We collaborated with the Aotearoa accompanying annual sponsor luncheon. it prepared for 2021’s Year of Events; move back into alert level 2, then when Circle to produce Financing the Future. Finally, my special thanks to the core revelations of aplanned new city at Drury the General Election was deferred from Our final project for 2020 was the Herald reports team: Tim McCready, and more. Three weeks later, New Zealand September 19 to October 17. Deloitte Top 200 Awards and the Dynamic Natalia Rimell, Isobel Marriner, Richard was in alert level 4lockdown. 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It is agrowing contributor, with household trans- thas been three years since determined port emissions increasing by 15 per Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern cent between 2011 and 2017. called climate change “my gen- that we will Carr says this will be one of the I eration’s nuclear-free moment”. major challenges that will go to the tackle it head While the previous Government heart of both the allocation of capital was unable to declare aclimate emer- on. by private vehicle owners, fleet oper- gency in the last term —believed to Jacinda Ardern, ators and government infrastructure be because Labour’s coalition partner August 2017 providers. New Zealand First blocked it —she “Converting ground transportation has now made it apriority with a to low or no emissions is a100 plus declaration of aclimate emergency. billion-dollarinvestment challenge Since Covid swept the world, it has over the next 30 years,” he says. done alot to emphasise the social and “Known technologies exist. They larg- economic inequalities that exist glob- ely require electrification, and that ally. The harsh reality of the electrificationneeds to be provided lockdown exposed that, even in New from renewable energy sources, un- Zealand, women and low wage less it is to continue to contribute to workers were most impacted by job Jacinda Ardern greenhouse gas emissions.” losses and reduced work hours. speaks with US Navigating our economic recovery Similarly, the relationship between President-elect from Covid-19, while finding solutions climate change and inequality will Joe Biden. for our climate change challenges will see those who are disadvantaged Photo /AP require asubstantial and coordinated suffer disproportionately from the response. This will mean making sure adverse effects of global warming. forward to working closely with her Speaking recently at the Institute is to be done, by who, and by when,” capital is deployed to support the The need for action to achieve New on common challenges, including of Financial Professionals in New he said. new age, new technologies, and new Zealand’s vision of athriving, climate- tackling climate change. Biden has Zealand (Infinz) conference, Climate New Zealand emits about 80 and necessary ways in which we resilient, low emissions future is named ex-US Secretary of State John Change Commission chair Dr Rod million tonnes of carbon dioxide- conduct business. widely understood. Kerry —one of the leading architects Carr said the commission’s current equivalent greenhouse gases every Covid-19 exposed major weak- The same areas that New Zealand of the Paris climate agreement —as programme of work is to produce the year, and under the international nesses in our society. But it has also used to successfully respond to the his climate envoy. first emissions budget out to 2035 — accounting rules sequesters about 10 given us the impetus to make funda- Covid-19 outbreak are needed to “America will soon have agovern- and to the extent that we are not on million tonnes, largely through fores- mental changes that will address in- address global warming: listening to ment that treats the climate crisis as track to achieve our domestic targets try. Nearly half of those emissions equality and fuel an economic recov- scientists, public policy and interna- the urgent national security threat it and global obligations, advise on a come from agriculture. ery that is long-lasting and sustain- tional co-operation. is,” said Kerry. reduction plan that will reduce those The challenge for New Zealand, able. Without ahandbrake on the When US President-elect Joe Biden This break from the Trump admin- emissions having regard to awide says Carr, will be that although our Government —and with arenewed spoke with Ardern for the first time istration’s climate policy will put our range of impacts. form of pastoral agriculture may be impetus from international leader- since the US election last month, he Government to the test, and necessi- “It is important to understand that one of the most