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Open Letter Calls For NZDF To Deploy Cleanup Team, HMNZS Manawanui Leaking Residual Oil
Friday, 11 October 2024, 5:08 pm | 350 Aotearoa
11 October: An open letter has been launched, supported by 350 Aotearoa, Greenpeace and student unions, calling on Defence Minister Judith Collins to urgently task the NZDF with immediately deploying a cleanup team to Sāmoa, to plug any leaks and remove ... More >>
Mercury Pays Shareholders Highest Payout Per Share In History
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 1:06 pm | 350 Aotearoa
350 Aotearoa campaigner Adam Currie says “Households are struggling and high electricity prices are destroying jobs. In the midst of an energy crisis, it is mind-boggling that Mercury thinks now is the time to be delivering mega payouts to shareholders. More >>
Contact Increases Shareholder Dividends In Midst Of Energy Crisis
Monday, 19 August 2024, 10:48 am | 350 Aotearoa
350 Aotearoa campaigner Adam Currie says “Households are struggling and high electricity prices are destroying jobs. In the midst of an energy crisis, it is mind-boggling that Contact thinks now is the time to be delivering mega payouts to shareholders." More >>
Luxon Hands Open Cheque To Oil Companies
Monday, 22 July 2024, 12:54 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Aotearoa is revealing coalition govt is removing oil decommissioning safeguards, risking more $500m bills for the taxpayer. In the minutes from a cabinet paper, the govt has agreed to ‘remove the requirement to pay an amount and/or provide financial ... More >>
350 Aotearoa Says The Emissions Reduction Plan Is ‘Not Worth The Paper It’s Printed On’
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 2:41 pm | 350 Aotearoa
As gas supplies dry up, it is crucial New Zealand invests in and enables community solar and wind - or else struggling households will face skyrocketing energy bills More >>
Government’s Climate Plan ‘Contradictory’
Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 6:08 pm | 350 Aotearoa
350 Aotearoa is calling the government's new climate change plan ‘meaningless’ after oil and gas exploration and mining on conservation land have dominated their policy announcements since the election. 350 Aotearoa co-director Lisa Mclaren says ... More >>
Activists Attach Large ‘End Private Jets’ Banner To Wellington Sign
Tuesday, 9 July 2024, 6:39 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Private jet flights are around 15 times more polluting, per passenger, than commercial flights. Over the last decade, the number of private jet flights into New Zealand has more than doubled. More >>
Government Held Accountable By A Broad Coalition In Herald Ad To Protect Te Tiriti O Waitangi And Te Taiao
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 8:55 am | 350 Aotearoa
More than 25 environmental and community groups have published an Open Letter calling on Parliament to honour Te Tiriti and protect the environment. More >>
Private Jets Have No Role To Play In The Future Of Aotearoa
Monday, 13 May 2024, 11:06 am | 350 Aotearoa
“The impacts of the climate crisis are already harming people around the world who will never set foot on a plane, let alone a private jet”, says 350 Aotearoa volunteer, Nicola Campbell. More >>
Committee Silences Majority Of Submitters On Fast-track Bill
Friday, 10 May 2024, 5:53 pm | 350 Aotearoa
350 Aotearoa is calling the Environment Select Committee’s decision to allow oral submissions from just 40% of individual, unique submitters who asked to speak to the committee ‘a disgraceful blight to democracy’. More >>
Thousands Of New Zealanders Call For Community Energy
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 2:09 pm | 350 Aotearoa
On Parliament’s fourth sitting day of the new government, 350 Aotearoa delivered a petition with the names of more than 2,600 New Zealanders calling for the Government to back community energy projects. Green MP Scott Willis accepted the petition from ... More >>
Climate Protestors Put Luxon On Notice
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 11:02 am | 350 Aotearoa
October 17: Protestors descended on Parliament this morning, and constructed solar panels, windmills, and bicycle-powered smoothie machines on Parliament lawn. They are calling on the incoming government’s election negotiations to prioritise ... More >>
500,000-strong Coalition Releases Election Scorecards
Wednesday, 6 September 2023, 6:37 pm | 350 Aotearoa
6 September: A new coalition has launched election scorecards , assessing the ability of the major parties to respond to the social and environmental crises facing Aotearoa. Te Pāti Maori and the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand were the only parties ... More >>
Pacific Leaders Present Historic Climate Finance Plan To Island Communities
Thursday, 10 August 2023, 10:21 am | 350 Aotearoa
Kioa, Fiji - Pacific activists and civil society presented a historic new climate finance initiative to the community of Kioa Island in Fiji today. The Kato Pacific Community Climate Fund is a response to resounding cries from frontline communities ... More >>
Renewable Energy Should Be Funded By Making Polluters Pay
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 2:55 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Climate justice organisations say that the renewable infrastructure Aotearoa needs should be resourced directly by the Government - funded by making corporate polluters pay. This comes in response to today’s announcement the Government and Blackrock ... More >>
Protestors Urge Vietnam To Release Detained Climate Activist
Thursday, 22 June 2023, 2:33 pm | 350 Aotearoa
<img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2306/ea377ff0ee305a6ddc97.jpeg" width="720" height="540"> Protestors today delivered a statement of concern to the Vietnamese Embassy in Wellington, protesting the detainment ... More >>
More Than 750 Public Buildings Still Waiting For Funding To Transition To Clean Energy
Friday, 5 May 2023, 10:42 am | 350 Aotearoa
May 5: 350 Aotearoa has released a map of state sector buildings across Aotearoa, which outlines the status of fossil-fuelled public buildings - ‘unfunded’, ‘funded’, or ‘transitioned’. It shows that over 750 public buildings still ... More >>
Ending Universal Half-price Public Transport Is A Loss For Our Communities And The Climate
Wednesday, 14 December 2022, 2:50 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Today, the government announced an end to universal half-price public transport fares which has improved the ways of commuting for many people in Aotearoa since April this year. From 31 March 2023 only people with a Total Mobility Card or Community ... More >>
Electricity Privatisation Delivers “Excess Dividends” At Cost Of People And Planet
Monday, 14 November 2022, 5:54 am | 350 Aotearoa
A new report “Generating Scarcity; How the gentailers hike electricity prices and halt decarbonisation” co-authored by FIRST Union, the NZCTU and 350 AotearoaNZ argues that since the partial-privatisation of our electricity companies, the four ... More >>
350 Aotearoa Reactions To New Zealand Loss & Damage Announcement
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 7:10 am | 350 Aotearoa
This morning the government announced a dedicated allocation of NZ$20 million in climate funding to address loss and damage in developing countries. It is part of the $1.3billion climate finance commitment announced in October 2021 and delivers ... More >>