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Climate Commission Methane Advice A Chance To Pull Climate Emergency Brake: Greenpeace
Friday, 6 December 2024, 2:20 pm | Greenpeace
The intensive dairy industry, led by Fonterra, is NZ’s worst climate polluter, belching out vast amounts of superheating methane gas, Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn says. More >>
Govt’s Methane Review Designed To Disguise Ideology As Fact - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 5:55 pm | Greenpeace
The methane review is designed to disguise political ideology as scientific fact. It was set up to bypass the independent scientific advice of the Climate Change Commission because that advice didn’t say what the Government - & the livestock industry lobbyists ... More >>
Norway Stops Seabed Mining, Putting More Pressure On NZ To Follow
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 4:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace spokesperson Juan Parada says, "This move by Norway to stop the seabed mining in its tracks is a historic win for ocean protection and for the growing movement opposed to the damaging new extractive industry, and puts the spotlight firmly on ... More >>
Waimate Drinking Water Disaster Highlights Need To End Dairy Pollution
Monday, 2 December 2024, 8:31 pm | Greenpeace
NZ has too many dairy cows, especially in Canterbury, and they’re polluting the water we drink. Ultimately, we need far fewer cows on farms, and to see Environment Canterbury enforcing a phase-out of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, Greenpeace spokesperson ... More >>
Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Fail To Deliver And The Fight Continues
Monday, 2 December 2024, 8:20 am | Greenpeace
"This week, over 100 Member States, representing billions of people, rejected a toothless deal that would have accomplished nothing and stood before the world committing to an ambitious treaty. Now, it’s time they stand by this promise and deliver. More >>
Greenpeace Demands Release Of Plastics Treaty Activists, As Global Talks Enter Final Stages
Sunday, 1 December 2024, 8:50 pm | Greenpeace
We urge the South Korean authorities to release the activists immediately. These activists are standing with thousands of Korean citizens and millions more around the world who are demanding a historic treaty in Busan. Their voices must be heard, ... More >>
Seabed Mining AGM Disrupted By Representatives Of Ngāti Ruanui And Greenpeace
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 1:37 pm | Greenpeace
Rukutai Watene of Ngāti Ruanui, along with Peeti Wharehoka-Watene and six Greenpeace activists, interrupted the meeting in Sydney, Australia by taking the floor to outline the reasons that he and his hapū oppose seabed mining in their rohe. More >>
Greenpeace Gives Christopher Luxon An F On Its First Year In Govt Waging A War On Nature
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 8:29 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has kept track of this in an article published on the organisation’s website, where the coalition government’s so-called War on Nature is documented in detail. More >>
Greenpeace Unfurls Giant Eye To Warn Leaders That The World Is Watching As Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations Begin
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 8:38 am | Greenpeace
The flag features faces from all over the world, including public figures like William Shatner, James Cromwell & João Pacífico. Together, these images represent a united call for a treaty that cuts plastic production, eliminates single-use plastics, and ... More >>
COP29 ‘Bandaid Over A Bullet Wound’, Polluters Should Expect Resistance - Greenpeace
Monday, 25 November 2024, 11:40 am | Greenpeace
We know how to cut emissions - we have all the technology and tools to do so. What’s needed is political will to put these tools into action. More >>
New Zealand Drops In Global Ranking On Climate Action
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 8:59 am | Greenpeace
If the government won’t hold polluters to account, then people will. People are increasingly taking to the streets and the courtrooms, putting their bodies on the line to shut down polluting industries. This will only escalate further unless New ... More >>
Rural School Drinking Water Threatened By Fast-Track - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 2:35 pm | Greenpeace
The Fast Track Bill will make drinking water quality worse across the country. Contamination of drinking water with toxic heavy metals often occurs as a result of gold mining - and fast-tracked gold mines are planned in both the Waikato and Otago regions. More >>
Greenpeace Calls On Fonterra Investors To Consider Big Picture With Giant Puzzle
Monday, 18 November 2024, 9:37 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling on investors to divest from Fonterra’s Shareholders Fund to push the dairy giant into ending palm kernel use on all of its farms. More >>
Drinking Water At 100 Rural Schools Contaminated With Cancer-causing Nitrate
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 2:11 pm | Greenpeace
"The source of this pollution is primarily the intensive dairy industry which contaminates lakes, rivers, and drinking water with cow urine and runoff from synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use," says Appelbe. More >>
Greenpeace Confronts Fonterra AGM Attendees With Rainforest Destruction, Dying Orangutans
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 11:42 am | Greenpeace
At the end of September, Greenpeace launched a petition calling on Fonterra to drop palm kernel, which has already attracted more than 10,000 signatures. More >>
Seabed Miners Lose Attempt To Limit Greenpeace Protest At Sea
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 3:02 pm | Greenpeace
After unsuccessful attempts to lobby governments to limit protests against deep sea mining vessels at the International Seabed Authority earlier this year, NORI pursued an appeal at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal to try and secure immunity against any ... More >>
The Cost Of Trawling: 3,000 kg Dead Coral In One Year
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 3:07 pm | Greenpeace
The New Zealand trawl fleet pulled up and killed at least 2,676 kg of coral and sponges, the building blocks of ocean life, over a one-year period, according to the most up-to-date figures. More >>
Time To Address The Cow In The Room At COP29
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 10:07 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Amanda Larsson says, "The livestock industry is a major driver of climate pollution, but has largely flown under the radar at previous UN climate conferences. This year, world leaders must finally address the giant cow ... More >>
New Anchor Butter Owner Must Go Palm Kernel-free - Greenpeace
Monday, 11 November 2024, 7:25 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace launched legal proceedings against Fonterra earlier this year, challenging claims on its Anchor Butter packaging that the product is 100% New Zealand Grass-Fed. Greenpeace has also called on Fonterra to end the use of palm kernel across all its ... More >>
Coral Pulled Up By NZ Trawler "Environmental Vandalism" Says Greenpeace
Friday, 1 November 2024, 9:02 am | Greenpeace
The coral ‘encounter’ happened on Lord Howe Rise, a region renowned for diverse marine life including corals, sponges, whales and seabirds, triggering an international fishing rule that will see the area temporarily closed to trawling and countries ... More >>
