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Greenpeace Announces Next Round Of Water Testing In Canterbury, Calls For End To Drinking Water Pollution
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:16 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa will offer free drinking water testing in Amberley and Oxford this October, following alarming nitrate contamination levels threatening rural communities’ health. More >>
Footage Released By Greenpeace Reveals Damage In The Deep Ocean From Industrial Fishing
Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:44 am | Greenpeace
The compelling evidence emphasises how this precious ecosystem has been decimated by years of bottom trawling, which involves dragging heavy weighted fishing gear across the sea floor, destroying fragile communities that take thousands of years ... More >>
Weaker Freshwater Rules Would Threaten Rural People’s Health - Greenpeace
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:06 pm | Greenpeace
Environmental regulations exist for a reason - to protect the places and creatures we care about and the things we depend on like clean drinking water. More >>
Greenpeace Slams Govt Decision To Expand Seabed Mining Permit Area
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 10:47 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says it’s "unbelievable" that wannabe seabed miner Trans-Tasman Resources has been given the go-ahead to nearly quadruple the size of the area it wants to mine in the South Taranaki Bight. More >>
Shane Jones Called Out For Seabed Mining Misinformation
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:05 am | Greenpeace
The minister for mining and burning, Shane Jones, is trying to take New Zealanders for fools with inflated claims and misinformation about seabed mining off the coast of Taranaki, says Greenpeace. More >>
Fertiliser Pollution Set To Continue Under Ballance’s Call For More Fossil Gas
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:02 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is denouncing Ballance Agri-nutrients’ call for more fossil gas production, maintaining that urea needs to be phased out altogether. More >>
Local Government Freshwater Protections Must Not Be Hamstrung By Anti-nature Government
Friday, 13 September 2024, 2:28 pm | Greenpeace
Successive Govts have failed to regulate NZ’s worst freshwater polluter - the intensive dairy industry, who pollute lakes, rivers and drinking water with contaminants like E coli and nitrate. And now, Luxon’s govt is removing the only effective freshwater ... More >>
The Government’s War On Nature Cuts Into Ocean Conservation
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 4:28 pm | Greenpeace
If the government really cared about healthy oceans, they would act to protect marine life and listen to the public. New Zealanders overwhelmingly want destructive bottom trawling banned from where it does the most harm, and they support cameras on the ... More >>
New Gas Import Facility Is Outright Climate Denial, Says Greenpeace
Monday, 26 August 2024, 5:19 pm | Greenpeace
This incredibly stupid decision is a deliberate slap in the face for the Pacific nations the PM will be meeting at the Pacific Islands Forum this week. Pacific nations face rising sea levels and more intense cyclones due to climate change. More >>
Fast Track Bill Remains Fundamentally Anti-environment - Nineteen New Mining Projects In The Pipeline
Sunday, 25 August 2024, 5:02 pm | Greenpeace
The key part of the Fast Track Bill remains in place after these changes - projects will still be assessed on purely economic criteria which totally override environmental criteria. More >>
Fonterra ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ Claims Blatant Greenwash
Monday, 19 August 2024, 9:58 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa says the latest exposé of Fonterra’s dishonest marketing strategies indicates that the co-operative’s license to pollute is coming to an end. More >>
GE Not The Solution To NZ’s Dairy Pollution - Greenpeace
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 1:50 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa says that while it’s good to see the Government acknowledging that New Zealand’s dairy industry has a climate pollution problem, genetically engineered technofixes are not the solution. More >>
Fishing Industry Conference Reeks Of Greenwash
Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 11:21 am | Greenpeace
The theme of this year’s Seafood New Zealand Conference, which started in Auckland this morning, is "Champions of Sustainability", a title that Greenpeace Aotearoa says is ironic at best, and misleading at worst. More >>
ISA Wraps With Election Of New Secretary-General And Growing Movement Of Countries Against Deep Sea Mining
Saturday, 3 August 2024, 4:51 pm | Greenpeace
"In this election, member states have overwhelmingly supported a new president who articulated a pro-conservation stance. This further highlights the growing momentum against the destructive deep sea mining industry." More >>
Momentum Has Never Been Stronger For Protecting The Oceans Against Deep Sea Mining
Friday, 2 August 2024, 9:17 am | Greenpeace
More than 30 nations, including New Zealand, are now calling for a halt to the start of deep sea mining, with five new announcements in support of a precautionary pause or a moratorium coming in the past few days at the International Seabed Authority ... More >>
Highest Ever Methane Emissions Requires Action On Dairy By NZ
Thursday, 1 August 2024, 4:13 pm | Greenpeace
Published this week in Frontiers In Science, the ‘ Methane Imperative’ report concludes that strong government regulation and fewer cows are needed to help avert a dangerous escalation in the climate crisis. More >>
Tuvalu Joins Growing Pacific Tide Of Opposition To Deep Sea Mining
Thursday, 1 August 2024, 8:29 am | Greenpeace
Tuvalu has added its voice to the growing tide in the Pacific against deep sea mining, highlighting the momentum against this destructive industry. The Govt of Tuvalu’s call for a pause on deep sea mining took place at the 29th session of the International ... More >>
Update On The International Seabed Authority Negotiations
Saturday, 27 July 2024, 2:07 pm | Greenpeace
Calls for a moratorium on deep sea mining intensify following discovery of dark oxygen production at 5000m depths More >>
‘Dark Oxygen’ Discovery Underlines Need To Stop Deep Sea Mining
Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 12:38 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has long campaigned to stop deep sea mining from beginning in the Pacific due to the damage it could do to delicate, deep sea ecosystems, and says that this incredible discovery underlines the urgency of that call. More >>
Fonterra Exposed As Major Player In Global Attempts To Undermine Climate Action
Thursday, 18 July 2024, 12:15 pm | Greenpeace
Agricultural emissions, primarily from intensive dairy, made up more than half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2022. Animal agriculture is the single largest source of human-made methane emissions, which are 80 times more potent than ... More >>
