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Our team comprises passionate individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We bring together a wealth of knowledge and skills to achieve our goals and make a positive impact in our community.

Between March and May 2020 HNZ, in collaboration with Newcastle University, conducted a Humshaugh Residential Property Carbon Footprint Survey. 110 households responded, which equates to approximately 30% of all properties.

The results:

• Humshaugh Household Carbon Footprint (tonnes CO2)
• Electricity 425 tonnes CO2 (8% of total)
• Heating 1,486 tonnes CO2 (28% of total)
• Cars 1,380 tonnes CO2 (26% of total)
• Flying 849 tonnes CO2 (16% of total)
• Food and Recycling 1,168 tonnes CO2 (22% of total)

Total = 5,308 tonnes CO2

According to serious climate change scholars, who published ‘The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory’ in the journal, BIOSCIENCE 2023;  2023 was the year of a raft of unwanted all-time climate-related records.

“This year exceptional heat waves have swept across the world, leading to record high temperatures …….. June through August of this year was the warmest period ever recorded, and in early July, we witnessed Earth’s highest global daily average surface temperature ever measured, possibly the warmest temperature on Earth over the past 100,000 years ….. It is a sign that we are pushing our planetary systems into dangerous instability …. We are venturing into uncharted climate territory.”