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State sponsored spying could be more widespread
Monday, 28 May 2007, 2:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says it's concerned Solid Energy isn't the only State Owned Enterprise spying on community groups. It has been revealed that Solid Energy indirectly hired spies to infiltrate a community group campaigning against it. The company employed ... More >>
Genesis Energy files against Greenpeace
Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 2:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Genesis Energy has filed new legal proceedings against Greenpeace in an extraordinary attempt to have a High Court ruling protecting the climate reversed. More >>
Canning the Pacific
Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 1:34 pm | Greenpeace
Fish is to the Pacific what oil is to the Middle East. This week, May 14-18, Pacific Trade Ministers and officials meet in Nadi to discuss their trade options with the EU. Whilst agreements over trade in agriculture, tourism and finance are on the table, ... More >>
All sectors must pay for greenhouse pollution
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 3:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today welcomed Energy Minister David Parker's announcement that an emissions trading regime could be up and running during 2008. More >>
Greenpeace calls on ITTO
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 3:20 pm | Greenpeace
Port Moresby, Monday May 7, 2007: Greenpeace activists today abseiled from the top of the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Port Moresby, where delegates were gathering for the start of the 42nd International Tropical Timber Organization’s (ITTO) committee ... More >>
IPCC climate report proves government must act
Monday, 7 May 2007, 8:20 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is demanding swift and serious action from the New Zealand government, following the completion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report. More >>
Video: Greenpeace Spoofs The Genesis Ad
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 5:06 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace said today it was time New Zealand energy companies like Genesis Energy stopped trying to brand themselves as caring and clean, when in reality they were increasing the threat of climate change. More >>
Greenpeace welcomes new NZ carbon market
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 9:10 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday 2 May, 2007: Greenpeace today welcomed new plans by the Carbon Market Working Group to establish a carbon emissions trading platform, but warned New Zealand's focus should be on reducing emissions, rather than just trading credits. More >>
Chernobyl anniversary protest
Friday, 27 April 2007, 1:15 pm | Greenpeace
Flamanville, France — On this day 21 years ago a nuclear reactor near the Ukraine city of Chernobyl suffered a steam explosion and a nuclear meltdown. Winds spread the radioactive fallout over thousands of square kilometres. Now, risky new nuclear ... More >>
Weather of Mass Destruction
Monday, 23 April 2007, 2:53 pm | Greenpeace
New York, United States — WMD are a constant topic on the agenda of the United Nations, but now the Security Council members will have to ask, "Which W is it: weather or weapons?" The UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ... More >>
10,000 energy wasting lightbulbs crushed
Monday, 23 April 2007, 2:45 pm | Greenpeace
Berlin, Germany — Energy wasting incandescent lightbulbs are so dangerously inefficient it's better for the climate (and your wallet) to smash even brand new ones rather than use them. So we got a road roller and crushed 10,000 energy wasting lightbulbs ... More >>
Activists crush thousands of light bulbs
Saturday, 21 April 2007, 2:49 pm | Greenpeace
Berlin 20 April 2007 -- As G8 and EU ministers gathered in Berlin to discuss energy efficiency measures, Greenpeace used a mechanised road roller to crush ten thousand energy-wasting light bulbs at the Brandenburg Gate today, demanding tough European ... More >>
How to reduce Kyoto angst? Cut emissions
Friday, 20 April 2007, 11:22 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The angst around New Zealand's Kyoto liability is the inevitable consequence of delaying efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, Greenpeace said today. Greenpeace Executive Director Bunny McDiarmid said that since we signed Kyoto New Zealand could ... More >>
Greenpeace Statement on UNSC Climate Change Debate
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 11:23 am | Greenpeace
New York, 17 April 2007 -- "There is no question that the proliferation of 'Weather of Mass Destruction' is a worthy topic for the Security Council. Its appearance on the Council's agenda represents a coming of age and recognition that a failure to ... More >>
OECD pressures NZ to lift game on climate
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 1:46 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 5 April 2007 — Greenpeace today called on the New Zealand Government to heed OECD calls released today for the country to adopt a "clear and comprehensive package of climate change policy measures". More >>
OECD pressures NZ to lift game on climate
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 11:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today called on the New Zealand Government to heed OECD calls released today for the country to adopt a "clear and comprehensive package of climate change policy measures". More >>
Govt's bottom trawl ban doesn't go far enough
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 9:43 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The New Zealand Governments announcement today to close 32 per cent of our EEZ to bottom trawling does little to stop the destruction of vulnerable deep-sea life threatened by the practice, this is clearly illustrated by a map released by Greenpeace in August ... More >>
Greenpeace Southern Ocean Ship "Banned" from Japan
Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 12:30 am | Greenpeace
The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, which helped the fire-damaged Japanese whaling factory ship when it was disabled in the Southern Ocean, has been effectively banned from entry into Tokyo. More >>
Polluters must pay for greenhouse gas emissions
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 4:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland – 27 March 2007- Greenpeace today urged the New Zealand business sector to wake up and accept that a cost on carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions is inevitable. More >>
Whaler's factory ship docks amid criticism
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 11:20 am | Greenpeace
Tokyo, Japan — The Nisshin Maru arrived in Tokyo Bay today. Its time in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary was cut short by a tragic fire, which claimed the life of one crewmember and threatened the Antarctic environment. Over the course of this past ... More >>
