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Tide Shifts Against Seabed Mining As Tuvalu Withdraws Support
Thursday, 14 April 2022, 3:47 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is thrilled that Tuvalu has rescinded its support of deep sea mining saying it adds growing weight for a call to caution about the emerging industry and its potential for environmental destruction. In a dramatic reversal, Tuvalu Foreign ... More >>
State Of Environment Report Buries Dairy’s Deadly Nitrate Harm In Endnotes
Thursday, 14 April 2022, 10:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says the latest State of the Environment report acknowledges that industrial dairy is driving environmental breakdown, but seems to have cut mention of the cancer and preterm birth risks of nitrate contaminated drinking water. Greenpeace Senior ... More >>
Agriculture Still Tops Emissions, So Where’s The Action?
Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 3:00 pm | Greenpeace
12 April: Greenpeace says today’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory release from the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) underlines, yet again, the case for halving the bloated dairy herd. The report shows that since 1990, New Zealand’s gross emissions have ... More >>
Call Received To Freeze Russian Oligarch Assets In Aotearoa
Monday, 11 April 2022, 3:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Alongside the veteran protest yacht Vega today in Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour, Greenpeace Aotearoa Programme Director Niamh O’Flynn presented a petition to Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control, Phil Twyford, calling on the New Zealand Government ... More >>
Date Change For ‘Freeze Oligarch Assets’ Petition Delivery
Friday, 8 April 2022, 9:36 am | Greenpeace
On Monday 11th April in Auckland , Greenpeace will present a petition to Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control, Phil Twyford calling on the New Zealand Government to "freeze oligarch assets" to put pressure on Vladimir Putin to end the ... More >>
Greenpeace Incredulous Over James Shaw’s Dairy Denial
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 1:04 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has taken aim at the Minister for Climate Change and co-leader of the Green Party, James Shaw, over his recent comments regarding cow numbers in New Zealand. Greenpeace has been increasingly critical of Shaw over recent months, but things ... More >>
Greenpeace To Present ‘freeze Oligarch Assets’ Petition To Government
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 12:40 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Overnight the New Zealand Government has increased its list of sanctions on Russian people and entities, but Greenpeace Aotearoa says the sanctions are token and have still missed the most obvious target - Alexander Abramov, the Russian oligarch with ... More >>
Latest IPCC Report Demonstrates Action Needed On Dairy
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 5:35 am | Greenpeace
5 April: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III delivered the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report to world governments today. The new report looks at climate change mitigation. It builds on previous Working ... More >>
Greenpeace Slams Ardern Govt Over New Oil Exploration Ahead Of Latest IPCC Report
Monday, 4 April 2022, 3:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has slammed the Government over news that the crown minerals regulator has allowed Greymouth Petroleum to piggyback off an existing mining permit to commence seismic blasting in an adjacent area of more than 260 square kilometers. "Allowing ... More >>
Greenpeace: Logging Audit Spells Disaster For The Democratic Republic Of Congo (DRC) And Its Donors
Saturday, 2 April 2022, 6:33 am | Greenpeace
Kinshasa, 1 April 2022: After three months of pressure from Greenpeace Africa, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has finally realized it was no longer possible not to publish an explosive 2020 audit by the General Inspectorate of Finance ... More >>
Taumata Arowai Water Proposals "Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing" - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 7:07 am | Greenpeace
A stoush is brewing between Greenpeace and the Government’s new drinking water regulator Taumata Arowai. The environment group is calling the agency's proposals for increasing the permissible amounts of 17 toxins in people’s drinking water ... More >>
Government Proposing Increase Of Highly Toxic Substances In Drinking Water
Monday, 28 March 2022, 3:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace and the Pesticide Action Network today expressed "outrage" that Taumata Arowai is proposing to increase the permissible amount of 17 toxic chemicals, substances and radioactive materials in New Zealander’s drinking water. Atrazine ... More >>
Climate Floods A Stark Reminder That Intensive Dairying Must End
Friday, 25 March 2022, 3:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
25 March: The latest storms and " climate floods " devastating Tairāwhiti / Gisborne and surrounding areas, are another stark reminder for the Ardern Government that they must put an end to the intensive industrial dairy industry, says Greenpeace ... More >>
Greenpeace Calls On Government To Halve The Dairy Herd
Thursday, 24 March 2022, 3:34 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa has launched a petition calling on the Government to halve the dairy herd , saying that cow numbers are too high for rivers, the climate and people’s health to sustain. Greenpeace Aotearoa lead agriculture campaigner Christine Rose ... More >>
Russia Sanctions By New Zealand Off To A Limp Start
Friday, 18 March 2022, 9:52 am | Greenpeace
The New Zealand Government has announced its first set of sanctions in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine but Greenpeace says they have missed the most obvious target. "It’s good to see the Government finally moving on sanctions ... More >>
Two Thirds Of Tested Rural Bore Water Above Cancer Risk Limit For Nitrate
Thursday, 17 March 2022, 12:24 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Aotearoa is today releasing preliminary figures of its groundbreaking mail-in nitrate water testing showing that two thirds of 237 bores tested had nitrate contamination above levels linked to colorectal cancer in an international study. ... More >>
Comprehensive Container Return Scheme Needed To Address Plastic Waste Crisis
Monday, 14 March 2022, 2:45 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is welcoming the Government’s announcement of an overhaul of recycling systems to address New Zealand’s astronomical plastic waste issue. On Sunday, the Government announced new proposals aimed to improve kerbside recycling, ... More >>
Ukraine Peace Flotilla Reaches Oligarch Retreat In Helena Bay
Sunday, 13 March 2022, 2:37 pm | Greenpeace
Following an early morning karakia conducted by locals in Whangaruru Harbour, the Ukraine Peace Flotilla has reached Helena Bay in Northland where Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov has his luxury retreat. The flotilla was led in by Carmen Hetaraka ... More >>
Ukraine: Case For Freezing Abramov’s Assets Grows Stronger As Flotilla Nears
Saturday, 12 March 2022, 2:48 pm | Greenpeace
The justification for sanctioning New Zealand’s wealthiest Russian investor, Alexander Abramov is growing stronger by the day according to Greenpeace Aotearoa which has today released a list of points to make the case for freezing the oligarch’s assets ... More >>
Ukraine Peace Flotilla On Its Way With Call To Freeze Oligarch Assets
Thursday, 10 March 2022, 3:09 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The "Ukraine Peace Flotilla" set sail from Auckland this morning with "No War" banners flying. Before sailing, Greenpeace Aotearoa programme director Niamh O’Flynn said: "Today we depart Tamaki Makaurau for Helena Bay ... More >>
