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Petition calls for All Blacks to drop AIG sponsorship
Tuesday, 8 October 2019, 4:50 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Tomorrow, Wednesday 9th October, climate activists from 350 Aotearoa will deliver a 35,000 strong petition to Rugby New Zealand calling for the All Blacks to drop its major global sponsor, insurance giant AIG. The petition, a collaboration between ... More >>
Another blow for ANZ, as greenwash exposed
Friday, 23 August 2019, 2:17 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Climate campaigners impersonating bank staff have taken to the streets this week to expose ANZ Bank’s sponsorship of the fossil fuel industry. In the series of satirical actions in Wellington, Dunedin, and Auckland, the ‘bank staff’ promoted ... More >>
ANZ Bank ‘proudly’ sponsors coal, oil, and gas industry
Friday, 23 August 2019, 9:04 am | 350 Aotearoa
This week 350 Aotearoa climate campaigners will impersonate ANZ Bank staff in several satirical actions outside of ANZ branches. The actions will expose ANZ Banks’s current social and financial support of the fossil fuel industry: through its sponsorship ... More >>
Exposed: ANZ sponsors of fossil fuel lobby group?
Monday, 19 August 2019, 8:37 am | 350 Aotearoa
Today posters have gone up outside ANZ branches across New Zealand to expose ANZ’s sponsorship of an exclusive oil industry group, ‘The Petroleum Club’. The satirical posters play on ANZ’s recent ad campaigns, replacing the banks’ tagline ‘healthy ... More >>
Fonterra’s announcement a win for the climate movement
Thursday, 18 July 2019, 3:48 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Fonterra’s use of coal has been the target of numerous grassroots campaigns in recent years. Last year 350 Aotearoa affiliated groups, Fossil Free Aoraki and 350 Nelson launched a petition dismissing the dairy giant’s initial target of no new ... More >>
350 Ōtepoti/Dunedin sets up waiting room at Kiwibank branch
Monday, 24 June 2019, 4:11 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Today on Monday 24th June 350 Ōtepoti/Dunedin joined grassroots climate justice groups across Aotearoa in actions calling for Kiwibank to release its policy that rules out investing in or lending in companies whose core business is the extraction ... More >>
Activists set up waiting rooms outside Kiwibank branches
Monday, 24 June 2019, 9:55 am | 350 Aotearoa
Today climate action groups in Dunedin and Wellington will set up waiting rooms outside Kiwibank branches, to demonstrate that the climate can’t keep waiting for Kiwibank to release a fossil free policy that rules out investments or lending to ... More >>
Protesters disrupt petroleum meeting
Wednesday, 22 May 2019, 2:11 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Twelve activists from climate action group 350 Aotearoa have disrupted a Petroleum Club meeting in New Plymouth. The group targeted event sponsors, ANZ, in a bid to highlight the discrepancies between the bank’s public statements on climate change ... More >>
Climate groups across Aotearoa challenge NZ banks
Saturday, 11 May 2019, 4:45 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Climate groups across Aotearoa challenge NZ banks to commit to Fossil Free policies More >>
Climate groups to rally NZ banks
Thursday, 9 May 2019, 2:18 pm | 350 Aotearoa
On Friday 10th and Saturday 11th May, grassroots climate action groups across Aotearoa will take action to call for banks in New Zealand to stop lending to or investing in fossil fuel companies. The events in Auckland, Kāpiti, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, ... More >>
Government's just transition commitment called into question
Wednesday, 1 May 2019, 4:59 pm | 350 Aotearoa
350 Aotearoa is calling to question the Government’s commitment to a just transition to a low carbon future following yesterday’s Block Offer announcement. Yesterday Minister of Energy and Resources, Hon Megan Woods, launched Block Offer 2018, inviting ... More >>
350 Aotearoa Launch Pledge to Join OMV Resistance
Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 3:02 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Today 350 Aotearoa has launched a pledge for New Zealanders to join the resistance against oil giant, OMV, after its announcement that it intends to drill for oil and gas in their permit off the coast of Otago. More >>
Australian banks responsible for financing climate change
Thursday, 22 November 2018, 9:34 am | 350 Aotearoa
Yesterday evening, climate justice organisation 350 Aotearoa released a report that exposes the relationship between banks in Aotearoa and the fossil fuel industry. 350 Aotearoa Executive Director Erica Finnie said, “The urgency to act on climate ... More >>
A vital step for the world to get back to climate safety
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 10:19 am | 350 Aotearoa
The Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Bill was passed last night, 63 votes to 55. The ban was announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in April, following close to a decade of New Zealanders calling for the ban through petitions, submissions, ... More >>
Climate groups protest ANZ roadblock to real climate action
Friday, 12 October 2018, 3:33 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Climate groups protest ANZ as “roadblock to real climate action” in light of IPCC 1.5°C report More >>
Climate groups protest ANZ
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 4:46 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Climate groups protest ANZ as “roadblock to real climate action” in light of IPCC 1.5°C report More >>
New Zealand lights the spark for ambitious climate action
Saturday, 8 September 2018, 6:26 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Hundreds of people joined climate action groups all across Aotearoa New Zealand today to take action to call for bold and ambitious climate leadership in response to the Global Climate Action Summit hosted in California next week. 350 Aotearoa and 350 ... More >>
Climate groups to rally across NZ in global action
Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 3:45 pm | 350 Aotearoa
On Saturday, 8th September, grassroots climate groups all across New Zealand will take action to call for strong local leadership on climate change. The events in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill are coordinated ... More >>
Call for Wellington Mayor to Ban Petroleum Conference
Monday, 6 August 2018, 4:46 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Local climate group 350 Wellington are inviting Wellingtonians to join the call for Wellington Mayor, Justin Lester to kick fossil fuel companies out of Wellington by banning the Petroleum Conference from council-owned venues. More >>
Museum urged to cut ties with fossil Fuel Industry
Tuesday, 24 July 2018, 12:47 pm | 350 Aotearoa
Over the weekend, Climate action group 350 Auckland launched a campaign calling on Auckland Museum to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. The Museum receives funding from the Stevenson Foundation, the funding arm of the Stevenson Group. Stevenson ... More >>
