We have established the GoZero Foundation to pool donations from members of our communities, businesses and philanthropists. The donations are used to create and empower local teams to promote sufficiency, strengthen community connection, collective decision-making and resilience.
The GoZero Foundation is a registered charitable trust (registered as the Greendeals Charitable Trust, registration number CC53338).
GoZero completed the Race to 2030 Wellington pilot project at the end of 2025, to test approaches to better help small businesses to understand climate change, and to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. GoZero and the GoZero Foundation will build on this project by connecting businesses that are taking action with actions at the community level to reduce ecological impacts and create long-term resilience.
The Race to 2030 project was conducted in collaboration with Climate Club and Business Central, with the support of Wellington City Council.
Wellington City Council has released a case study on the Race to 2030 pilot project here.
The GoZero Foundation advocates for people and communities to practice sufficiency - living well with less and investing in universal access to basic services for all. See the savings you could make through sufficiency actions and how you can give meaningful support to your community by donating a small portion of those savings, using our sufficiency and resilience tools.
The Board of Trustees
Chairperson - Mike Anthony
Mike has over 20 years experience in the non-profit sector, including senior roles in leading international human rights NGOs.
He founded the GoZero Foundation (formerly the Greendeals Charitable Trust) to increase the urgency of New Zealand's response to the climate crisis and to empower people and businesses to integrate effective climate action in their daily lives. GoZero is redirecting its work to tackling overshoot of planetary boundaries through sufficiency and resilience strengthening, having seen how many sustainability tools, approaches and technologies are not delivering impact.
Treasurer - David Phipps
David is a Wellington-based serial entrepreneur and brings a wealth of business experience to the trust. He has been a business owner since 1993, including startups and established SMEs. He now works in property.
David also keeps busy volunteering as a trustee, mentor and sports coach.
Secretary - Richard Stewart
Richard is a self-employed management consultant based in Wellington. He is passionate about a range of environmental issues, but particularly climate change and indigenous biodiversity. Richard has held key leadership roles implementing major government reforms to improve environmental outcomes. These include implementing the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and the Waste Minimisation Act, establishing the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and reform of the Resource Management Act (RMA).
Trustee - Jillian Dempster
Jillian is a diplomat with extensive knowledge of the international environment system, including as NZ's Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and the UN Environment Programme.
She has also represented New Zealand internationally on biodiversity, marine litter, sustainability, climate change and Antarctica, including leading the team that negotiated the creation of the world's largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea.
Trustee - Kirk Hope
Kirk is the CEO of New Zealand's Financial Services Council and the former CEO of BusinessNZ.
He has unparalleled knowledge of New Zealand's business sector and the challenges and opportunities that businesses face in their efforts to become sustainable.