Grow to zero

Grow to zero offers a vision for Aotearoa New Zealand.

It hinges on using our abundance of renewable energy as a competitive advantage, enabling goods and services to be produced in a low-emissions way – an increasingly attractive proposition as economies around the world seek to decarbonise. It’s also a call to action, to ensure the energy transition delivers the best future for Kiwis – enabling us to grow our economy relative to others as we transition, so that we can afford to adapt to what is coming.

We have an extraordinary endowment of renewable energy resources that we can leverage to produce goods and services in a low-emissions way, while remaining internationally competitive, and growing our economy.

The opportunity is real. Capital markets – businesses – around the world are looking for clean, green energy sources in which to invest, so they can reduce their emissions and meet their own targets.

The rest of the world will catch up with renewable energy, but we have the chance to get ahead of the game. To afford to both mitigate, adapt and self-insure in an uncertain future, we need to attract capital and customers to New Zealand, leveraging our renewal resources to grow our economy. The end game of the transition is a balance in the energy trilemma for all Kiwis – having an affordable and secure energy system, which is also environmentally sound.

Here, in New Zealand, we have the solutions all around us. We have everything we need to attract investment here, while reducing global emissions and tracking New Zealand towards its own international targets.

Let’s be ambitious for Aotearoa New Zealand and grow to zero together. 

Read the Grow to zero white paper.