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Join us for this focused one-day event designed to equip you with the tools and insights to lead on climate governance – effectively and with a future-ready mindset.
Directors across every sector – from listed companies and financial services, to agriculture, infrastructure, healthcare, tourism, and not-for-profits – are facing growing expectations and obligations around climate change governance. Navigating this landscape requires clarity, confidence, and strategic foresight. From new regulatory frameworks and mandatory disclosures to shifting stakeholder demands, climate governance is now central to long-term sustainability, profitability, and reputation.
The 2025 Climate Governance Forum will give you the opportunity to:
This event also provides a great chance to network with other directors who are dealing with similar climate-related opportunities and challenges.
Registrations are limited, so secure your place today and join us on Monday 28 July 2025.
The forum programme and full speaker line-up will be announced soon.
If you would like to attend the Forum online, please click here
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Gerri is the Principal Consultant at Oxygen Consulting. She is a sustainability and climate change specialist with 18+ years’ experience in sustainability leadership.
Prior to Oxygen, Gerri was a Director in the Climate Change and Sustainability team at EY, and country lead. At EY, Gerri led materiality assessments with PGG Wrightsons, Ballance Agrinutrients, Serko, and Argosy, sustainability strategies with the Wellington City Council, Trade Me, the Fred Hollows Foundation, AoFrio, and Te Papa, and climate risk reporting and disclosures with Freightways and Westpac NZ. She also led very successful “Sustainability 101” workshops with the SBC, the SBN, and NZTE.
In her time at Oxygen, she has led engagements with Christchurch City Holdings Ltd, Freightways, the Institute of Directors, Ecocentral, Trust Horizon, the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy, Zespri, Lyttelton Port, and CityCare. She currently works with the Boards of many high-profile New Zealand organisations (including the IoD itself) in delivering Board training on climate change impacts, reporting requirements, and transition planning.
Previously, she was the Head of Sustainability and Community at Z Energy for over 8 years; leading Z’s decarbonization pathway, climate reporting, community impact initiatives, and waste reduction activities.
Prior to Z she worked for central government for 7 years: first at the Ministry for Environment, where she led the Carbon Neutral Public Service programme and voluntary carbon markets advice to business; and at the Department of Conservation, where she led the Business and Biodiversity Offsetting CDRP Programme.
Gerri is a well-known thought leader through her regular Linked In articles, and her interview series’ with sustainability thought leaders and young entrepreneurs and innovators. She has spoken frequently at the Climate Change Business Conference, and at the SBN Conference, the Net Zero Summit, the CFO Summit and various industry conferences.
She has a Masters in International Law from the University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Waikato.
Gerri is a Member of the Institute of Directors NZ, and has previously held Board roles with the Sustainable Business Network, and as Vice-Chair of the Sustainable Business Council.
Mike Casey is an entrepreneur and cherry orchardist from Central Otago who has electrified all the machines on his farm and demonstrated how the transition away from diesel can save farmers tens of thousands each year and significantly reduce emissions. He is also the CEO of Rewiring Aotearoa, a New Zealand charity dedicated to electrifying millions of fossil fuel machines across the motu as quickly as possible. Rewiring Aotearoa’s Electric Homes report proved New Zealand had reached the electrification tipping point, where electric appliances and vehicles were cheaper than their fossil fuel equivalents over their lifetime, even with upfront costs and finance built in. The Electric Farms paper proved there are similar benefits for the rural sector if we can turn farms into power plants. It showed New Zealand’s farmers could reduce their operational costs by going electric and generating a lot of their own electricity through mid-scale solar and battery systems - and they can also make money by feeding electricity back into the grid at times of high demand. “Whether in the home or on the farm, electrification is a real win-win. It’s not just the right environmental decision anymore, it’s the right economic decision. It’s a no-brainer. We just have to figure out how to make it easy.”
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Kirsten Patterson MNZM (known as KP) is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Directors and is a Chartered Member of the IoD. In 2025 she was awarded the New Zealand Royal Honour, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to governance and women. She is a qualified lawyer and a Distinguished Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand, Chair of the Global Network of Directors Institutes (GNDI), and a member of the New Zealand External Reporting Advisory Panel (XRAP). She serves on the Boards of the mental health charity, Voices of Hope, is Chair of the Brian Picot Ethical Leadership Advisory Board at Victoria University in Wellington and an Ambassador for the Wellington Women’s Homeless Trust.
A strong advocate of diversity, KP is a member of Global Women New Zealand and was one of the founding members of Global Women’s ‘Champions for Change’, a group of senior executives and directors who commit to diversity in the workplace. KP was the founder and is Executive Sponsor for Chapter Zero New Zealand – the New Zealand Chapter of the World Economic Forum’s Climate Governance Initiative - hosted by the IoD NZ to mobilise, connect, educate and equip directors and boards to make climate-smart governance decisions, thereby creating long term value for both shareholders and stakeholders.
Regrettably, registration fees cannot be refunded when cancellations are received within two working days prior to any event. See our standard terms and conditions for more information.
Kristyn Chandler-Yates
National Sponsorship and Events Manager
+64 27 207 2592
Kristyn.Chandler-Yates@iod.org.nz
The Institute of Directors New Zealand (IoD) launched Chapter Zero New Zealand in March 2022. It is the home for climate change governance at the IoD and aims to support directors to meet their fiduciary duties by supporting them with the skills, tools, processes and information they need to act and guide their companies through the challenges of climate change. For more information and to be kept up to date with the latest events, webinars and resources sign up here.
Thank you to the Chapter Zero Foundation Partners
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Members — $545.00
Non-members — $1,090.00
