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Maharey out of line and incorrect
Friday, 7 September 2007, 10:00 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace New Zealand says it's been left baffled and rather amused by comments made in parliament by Labour Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
Arrested Greenpeace Activists Bail Relaxed
Thursday, 6 September 2007, 4:25 pm | Greenpeace
Newcastle, Thursday 6th September. In a sharp rebuke of the NSW Police, the Newcastle Local Court has this morning overturned excessive APEC-driven bail conditions set on 11 Greenpeace activists arrested during a climate change protest at the world's ... More >>
John Key sides with Howard and Bush on Climate
Thursday, 6 September 2007, 4:22 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland - 6 September, 2007 – John Key's support for John Howard and George Bush's stance on climate change is nothing short of frightening, says Greenpeace. More >>
Successful challenge of draconian APEC security
Thursday, 6 September 2007, 3:56 pm | Greenpeace
In a sharp rebuke of the NSW Police, the Newcastle Local Court has this morning overturned excessive APEC-driven bail conditions set on 11 Greenpeace activists arrested during a climate change protest at the world's biggest coal export port in Newcastle. More >>
Pacific must stand strong on cutting fishing
Saturday, 25 August 2007, 12:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
As the 3rd Regular Session Scientific Committee of the Western Central Pacific Commission (WCPFC) wrapped up its meeting yesterday in Honolulu, Hawaii, Greenpeace backed the need for Pacific solidarity to save the Pacific tuna stocks from commercial extinction. ... More >>
Labour and National all sizzle and no sausage
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 4:33 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand — Greenpeace New Zealand has used the humble banger to demonstrate the gulf between National and Labour party rhetoric over climate change and real action. More >>
Electricity companies rated on climate change
Monday, 16 July 2007, 9:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today released an updated version of its Clean Energy Guide, which ranks New Zealand electricity companies on their current and future contribution to climate change. More >>
Govt shows its true colours over climate change
Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 2:16 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The government has once more demonstrated that its commitment to addressing climate change is no more than window dressing, says Greenpeace New Zealand. More >>
New Warnings on Flawed Regulation of GE
Monday, 9 July 2007, 9:47 am | Greenpeace
Authorities regulating the safety of food and the environment must listen to New Zealand scientists, who are adding their voices to those of scientists worldwide and warning that the basic DNA theory underpinning all GE crop biotechnology is deeply ... More >>
Renewable energy 10 times cheaper
Friday, 6 July 2007, 5:10 pm | Greenpeace
Cost of renewable energy 10 times cheaper than ‘business as usual’ fossil-fuelled future, says breakthrough report Savings of US $180 billion per year predicted in first global analysis of renewable energy versus fossil fuels More >>
Legal action puts NZ polluters on notice
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 11:37 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Lawyers for Greenpeace are today serving legal notice on 20 New Zealand companies over their contribution to climate change. More >>
China - new number one climate polluter?
Friday, 22 June 2007, 10:06 am | Greenpeace
Chinese pedestrian wears a mask to protect herself from thick pollution as she walks her dog in central Beijing December 3, 2004. Beijingers have been warned to stay indoors as heavy pollution has covered the city for three days. With its energy shortage ... More >>
Pirate Ship in Chains
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 2:48 pm | Greenpeace
Eemshaven, Netherlands — The notorious Russian pirate fish cargo ship, the Mumrinskiy, has been chained to the docks in the Dutch port of Eemshaven by activists to stop it from engaging in illegal activities with pirate fisheries and facilitating the ... More >>
Prime Minister loses plot over climate change
Friday, 15 June 2007, 4:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark has lost her way in the climate debate and is making bizarrely incorrect and misguided statements on the subject, says Greenpeace. More >>
How green is that iPhone?
Friday, 15 June 2007, 4:43 pm | Greenpeace
At the end of June Apple will launch its first major product since Steve Jobs 'A Greener Apple' statement. So how green will the iPhone be? More >>
G8 to act on climate change, later... maybe
Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 2:40 pm | Greenpeace
Heiligendamm, Germany — In the lead up to this year's summit, leaked documents made it clear there was a distinct split among the G8 on the issue of climate change. After all, seven of the member countries have committed to the Kyoto Protocol's binding ... More >>
Commercial whaling ban strengthened at Anchorage
Saturday, 2 June 2007, 12:51 am | Greenpeace
Following last year's "St. Kitts Declaration", which mumbled that the moratorium on commercial whaling might not be necessary anymore, the anti-whaling countries have bounced back with a 37-4 vote for a resolution strengthening the commercial ... More >>
The greening of Apple
Friday, 1 June 2007, 6:27 pm | Greenpeace
This is the story of a very different kind of Greenpeace campaign. The story of a "people power victory." It's the story of the Greening of Apple. More >>
Exxon still funding Climate Change Deniers
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 2:09 pm | Greenpeace
Culture jamming the Esso logo at the entrance to a large station near the Germany-Luxembourg border in Wasserbillig. So. The day of reckoning has come – when we get to find out just how much of the climate change denial industry ExxonMobil (aka Esso) is ... More >>
GM trial risky, costly and pointless
Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 10:17 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has condemned the Environmental Risk Management Authority's (ERMA) decision to approve a field test of GM Brassica. "ERMA's finding that risks to the environment are negligible flies in the face of all the scientific uncertainties," said Greenpeace ... More >>
