CEMARS™ certified organisations
Companies that have achieved certification are realising business benefits through measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. CEMARS certification enables businesses to understand their carbon liabilities and discover their unrealised opportunities with the highest level of credibility and integrity. Formal details of certified companies are provided in this list of certified organisations 
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CEMARS certified companies include:
- Achilles Information Ltd - Recertification pending
- ASB Community Trust
- Contact Energy Ltd
- Croxley Stationery Limited
- Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) - Recertification pending
- EFI (Energy for Industry)
- Palliser Estate Wines of Martinborough Limited
- Westpac New Zealand Limited
CEMARS certified organisations have undergone a third-party verification to verify that they have measured and reduced their greenhouse gas emissions.
Suspended and withdrawn clients are separately listed.
Achilles information Ltd
Achilles, the leading supply chain management company, is the first company to receive CEMARS certification for measuring, managing and reporting the operational carbon footprint for it's UK operations. Achilles is a signatory of the UN Global Compact and sees CEMARS certification as an integral part of its wider corporate responsibility and environmental programme. Colin Maund, CEO Achilles Group commented 'As a company which promotes sustainability through its services, the project to measure our own carbon footprint and put reduction plans in place is integral to our core values and business strategy. Achilles is committed to assessing our impact on the environment and reducing our carbon emissions and becoming CEMARS certified is a key first step in this process'. Achilles identifies, assesses, and monitors suppliers on behalf of major organisations worldwide. We build and support buyer-supplier communities in many industry sectors, creating unique and powerful global networks. Our services for sustainable procurement help create opportunities for business and reduce risk in the supply chain. Achilles has partnered with Landcare Research to roll out the CEMARS programme to Achilles customers worldwide.
ASB Community Trust
ASB Community Trust provides grants in the learning, arts, sport, recreation, environment, heritage, health and social services areas. Founded on the sale of its shares in the ASB bank, the Trust has distributed more than $600m since being formed in 1988. The ASB Community Trust’s vision is to enhance equity and enrich society in Auckland and Northland. Any incorporated or charitable trust can apply for funds, provided they are a not-for-profit organisation that has been operating for more than 12 months.
Contact Energy Ltd
Contact Energy supplies energy to more than 600,000 customers. It operates nine power stations generating around 25 per cent of New Zealand’s electricity and is one of the country’s largest wholesalers and retailers of natural gas. Contact is one of the country’s largest listed companies and one of New Zealand's most widely held stocks with over 82,000 shareholders. It employs around 1,000 people throughout New Zealand. It has a number of offices around the country, within and outside of generation facilities, and on 1 September 2007 acquired Rockgas LPG with additional office accommodation and distribution sites, some of which are franchised. Contact has been in operation since 1996, when it acquired a portfolio of electricity generation and gas assets from the state owned electricity generator, ECNZ (Electricity Corporation of New Zealand). The Company was listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange in May 1999. In October 2004, Origin Energy became the major shareholder and holds a 51.4 per centstake in the company. Contact has been an active participant in the discussions around climate change and the introduction of an emissions trading scheme to price carbon emissions. During the period in review, Contact has made strong progress in advancing its development programme in electricity generation projects and projects to support renewable investment. Contact has also undertaken a range of initiatives to ensure the environmental impacts of its operations, such as offices across the country, are minimised.
Croxley Stationery Limited
Croxley Stationery Limited is a 100% subsidiary of OfficeMax New Zealand Limited, and is New Zealand’s largest manufacturer of stationery products. Croxley has been an iconic New Zealand business for more than 125 years. Of all the products that Croxley sells, 50% is made in New Zealand and they employ over 400 people in New Zealand. Croxley Stationery operated at a total of 6 sites (Avondale, Papakura, Albany, Wiri, Wellington and Christchurch) during the reporting period. Avondale is the head office and Croxley Stationery’s major manufacturing site. Croxley Stationery has invested in environmental accreditation programmes such as Enviro-Mark®NZ and Environmental Choice New Zealand. These programmes are important in creating robust systems for managing potential impacts Croxley Stationery has on the environment and its communities. Croxley Stationery sources all wood pulp and paper from suppliers certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Croxley Stationery is focused on providing industry leadership and is an active member of the New Zealand Paper Forum.
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA)
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) is a Crown Entity established under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (2000) (the Act). EECA is charged with delivering on the Government’s energy efficiency and renewable energy policies. The Act requires EECA to encourage, promote and support energy efficiency, energy conservation and the use of renewable energy sources.
Energy for Industry (EFI)
Energy For Industry (EFI) is an onsite energy solutions provider working in partnership with businesses to efficiently manage waste and provide solutions to energy issues. EFI is a business unit of Meridian Energy Limited and as such, committed to “best practice” in the provision of efficient energy solutions to large scale energy customers in both the public and private sectors. EFI leads its field by achieving CEMARS™ certification, - a major step in indicating how it works with partners to reduce emissions and target developments in biomass and waste to energy conversion projects. The certification offers EFI customers peace of mind that, as an integrated part of their business, EFI is helping them to raise the standard on efficient solutions and environmental responsibility while giving EFI a framework within which to measure and manage EFI’s greenhouse gas emissions profile and a commitment to addressing EFI’s impact on climate change.
Palliser Estate Wines of Martinborough Limited
Palliser Estate is a boutique winery in the small Wairarapa village of Martinborough. We have been making ultra premium wines since our first vintage in 1989. We grow the varieties Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris. We care about our environment, and we will do what we can to make as little impact as possible on this world we live in. We like it here and we’d hate to mess it up. So everything we do is designed to protect the environment in which our grapes grow. It is our environment that makes our wines. And it is our wines that make us. Achieving CEMARS certification under the carboNZero programme is an important step on our journey to sustainability and our goal to continually improve the environment we live and work in, and beyond.
Westpac New Zealand Limited
Westpac New Zealand Limited (Westpac) is a New Zealand incorporated subsidiary of Westpac Banking Corporation (based in Australia). Westpac has been operating in New Zealand since 1861 and is one of the country’s largest full service banks serving over 1.2 million active customers and employs over 5,500 people. Westpac was a pioneer of sustainability reporting in New Zealand, producing its first Stakeholder Impact Report in 2003 and each subsequent year. For five out of the last seven years Westpac has been named the number one bank in the world for sustainability by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and included in the global leadership index of the Carbon Disclosure Project for the last 5 years. Westpac is committed to assessing and reducing our impact on the environment and is the first bank in the world to receive CEMARS certification. Westpac is building sustainability into its everyday business practices and will be working closely with our suppliers to help us reduce our carbon emissions per active customer by 20% by 2012. We are doing this through a comprehensive four year emissions management and reduction plan.
