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New Zealand companies lag behind others in their reporting on climate change, and that's a risk to their reputation

  • Written by Jagadish Thaker, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University
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New Zealand’s top 30 corporations do a poor job reporting on climate change compared with similar Australian and Fortune Global 500 companies, according to our research.

The fact that most big businesses in New Zealand provide limited or no information on climate change was one of the drivers for a proposed policy to...

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