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UN Plastic Pollution Report Will Result In 100 Million Tons Of Plastic Pollution Every Year
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 12:20 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa has slammed a report from the United Nations Environment Program today on how to address the plastic pollution crisis, saying it will allow millions more tons of plastic pollution to end up in the environment each year. The UNEP report, ... More >>
Labour Makes Excuses In Seabed Mining Debate - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Thursday, 11 May 2023, 8:39 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is disappointed that the Labour Government chose not to support the Seabed Mining Prohibition Amendment Bill and says the delay puts precious sea creatures at risk. . The members’ bill, introduced by Debbie Ngarewa-Packer of ... More >>
Ocean Groups Slam Fishing Industry Transformation Plan As ‘status Quo Plus Subsidies’
Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 5:58 pm | Greenpeace
Environmental and recreational fishing groups have slammed the government’s draft Fisheries Industry Transformation Plan at a public meeting today, saying the plan does nothing to tackle the threat of destructive bottom trawling. The draft plan, ... More >>
Time To Throw He Waka Eke Noa On The Policy Bonfire
Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 12:20 pm | Greenpeace
As Aucklanders weather yet another severe storm and brace themselves for more slips and flooding, Greenpeace Aotearoa says it’s time for urgent action to reduce the agricultural emissions that drive the climate crisis. Greenpeace is calling on the ... More >>
Labour Misses Golden Opportunity To Stop Seabed Mining
Friday, 5 May 2023, 7:11 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa has slammed the Labour Government’s failure to support Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s Seabed Mining Prohibition Amendment Bill, and instead opt for a select committee inquiry into seabed mining. The bill ... More >>
Coca-Cola’s Latest Greenwashing An Attempt At Disguising Its Biggest Polluter Status
Monday, 1 May 2023, 7:31 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling out the "blatant greenwashing" by Coca-Cola after the world’s biggest plastic polluter announced it will replace its green bottles with clear plastic. The company revealed its plans today, saying clear bottles ... More >>
Fisheries Industry Transformation Plan Full Of Holes
Monday, 1 May 2023, 9:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is scathing in its response to the new Fisheries Industry Transformation plan’s recommendations for bottom trawling , which the organisation says amounts to little more than fanciful thinking, offering false hope that some future technology ... More >>
14 Greenpeace Belgium Activists Have Been Detained For Over 24 Hours
Monday, 1 May 2023, 5:56 am | Greenpeace
30 April, Brussels - 14 Greenpeace Belgium activists who were arrested yesterday during an action at the Fluxys gas terminal in Zeebrugge are still being held. Since being detained, they have already had to spend a night in prison. Greenpeace Belgium ... More >>
Greenpeace occupies Fluxys LNG terminal in Zeebrugge to protest gas operators’ disregard of global climate goals
Sunday, 30 April 2023, 5:06 am | Greenpeace
Zeebrugge, 29 April 2023 - This morning 10 climbers and 12 kayaktivists from Greenpeace Belgium occupied Fluxys terminal in Zeebrugge to denounce Fluxys’ role, among European gas operators, in the recent development of US LNG imports to Europe, in total disregard ... More >>
Kaipara Council’s Waste To Energy Investigation Is Not The Solution - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Friday, 28 April 2023, 3:22 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is warning that Kaipara District Council’s decision to investigate waste to energy options could lock them into a disastrous deal that will be costly to ratepayers and have negative impacts on people’s health and the climate. Kaipara ... More >>
Ashburton Nitrate Contamination Puts Local Communities At Risk
Monday, 24 April 2023, 10:21 am | Greenpeace
Unacceptably high levels of nitrate contamination in drinking water in Ashburton and the surrounding area are putting residents’ health at risk, says Greenpeace Aotearoa. The organisation returned to the region to offer free drop-in water testing ... More >>
Public Event Opposing Hauraki Gulf Trawling Going Ahead Sunday
Friday, 21 April 2023, 3:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
A public event calling for an end to bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf will go ahead at Auckland’s Mission Bay this Sunday April 23rd, culminating in a floating ‘ban bottom trawling’ banner being deployed and met by a flotilla of boats, kayaks ... More >>
Testing Finds Gore And Lumsden Drinking Water Near Nitrate Reproductive Risk Levels
Friday, 21 April 2023, 9:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Free nitrate water testing undertaken by Greenpeace Aotearoa in Southland this week has found high contamination levels in the water supplies of both Gore and Lumsden townships, as well as surrounding rural areas. Elevated nitrate levels in some water ... More >>
National’s Farm Policy Will Make Drinking Water Contamination And Climate Change Worse
Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 12:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is condemning the National Party’s new agriculture policy, saying that it will fail to address the climate crisis and health impacts caused by intensive dairying. "People across Aotearoa are already experiencing the effects of climate ... More >>
Stronger Action Needed To Ensure ETS Fit For Purpose
Friday, 14 April 2023, 11:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the Climate Change Commission’s latest recommendations on Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) settings, and says the advice should not only be accepted but should be binding and free from political interference. The Commission’s ... More >>
MfE Report Shows Widespread Water Contamination Caused By Intensive Dairy
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 10:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A new MfE report released today on the state of New Zealand’s freshwater, called Our Freshwater 2023, highlights the widespread impacts of intensive dairying on the environment and people’s health, and should spur the Government to act, says Greenpeace ... More >>
Event To Show Public Opposition To Hauraki Gulf Bottom Trawling
Tuesday, 11 April 2023, 7:01 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A public event calling for an end to bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf will be held this Saturday 15th, April at Auckland’s Mission Bay, culminating in a massive floating ‘ban bottom trawling’ banner being deployed and met by a flotilla of ... More >>
Greenpeace Returns To Southland And Ashburton In April For Free Nitrate Water Testing
Thursday, 6 April 2023, 5:06 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace will offer free drop-in nitrate water testing to the public at events in Lumsden, Gore and Ashburton in April. "The purpose of the free water testing is to provide essential information to rural people at risk of nitrate contamination," ... More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes National’s Renewable Energy Policy, But Fossil Fuel Exploration And Agriculture Remain Key Concerns
Friday, 31 March 2023, 10:08 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the National Party’s new renewable energy policy - ‘Electrify NZ’ - with its focus on increasing renewable electricity generation to replace coal, gas and petrol-fuelled transport. But the organisation is calling on National ... More >>
NZ support for climate justice at UN must translate to action at home
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 6:32 am | Greenpeace
An international pathway has now been established to require governments to consider the human rights impacts of their climate policies and take more ambitious action under existing international agreements. This is thanks to a Vanuatu-led resolution ... More >>