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Over 40 NGOs Call On Donor Governments To Intervene To Stop New Logging Plans In The Congo Rainforest
Friday, 24 September 2021, 5:42 am | Greenpeace
Kinshasa, 23 September, 2021 – As international donors prepare to announce a purported 1 USD billion forest protection agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the DRC government is planning to lift a moratorium on new logging concessions that ... More >>
Climate Commission Ignored Climate Benefits Of Cutting Synthetic Nitrogen
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 8:26 am | Greenpeace
A hidden report uncovered by Greenpeace shows that the Climate Change Commission ignored its own internal advice that could cut agricultural climate emissions by a third or more. The internal Climate Commission report, titled ‘Eliminating synthetic ... More >>
Greenpeace Launches New Educational History Website For Aotearoa
Wednesday, 22 September 2021, 12:53 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa has launched a new online educational resource describing the history of Greenpeace in Aotearoa , the South Pacific, and Antarctica covering the period 1971 to 2020. From the first campaigns against French nuclear testing and ... More >>
NZ abstains on global seabed mining moratorium vote at IUCN
Friday, 17 September 2021, 2:16 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The New Zealand Government’s decision to abstain from voting in support of a deep sea mining moratorium at the IUCN World Conservation Congress has been met with sharp criticism from Greenpeace Aotearoa. It was revealed this week that New ... More >>
Greenpeace appalled by nightmarish waste to energy proposal
Friday, 17 September 2021, 9:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A new proposal to build a waste to energy incinerator in Waimate to burn 350,000 tonnes of plastic, toxic sludge, nappies and other waste, is facing strong opposition from Greenpeace Aotearoa. More >>
Talley’s shifts blame for illegal bottom trawl onto skipper
Thursday, 16 September 2021, 3:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Court papers have revealed that Talley’s deepwater fishing division, Amaltal, has shifted the blame for illegally bottom trawling in the Hikurangi Marine Reserve off Kaikōura, a year after the company was found guilty of the breach. The Amaltal ... More >>
‘Mud farming’ clear evidence of too many cows - Greenpeace
Thursday, 16 September 2021, 11:00 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Aotearoa is launching a new petition calling for an end to mud farming - intensive winter grazing. The petition comes as new images of cows belly-deep in mud this winter provide further evidence that the country is trying - and failing ... More >>
Greenpeace celebrates 50 years defence of the planet
Wednesday, 15 September 2021, 8:31 am | Greenpeace
The iconic global environmental organisation Greenpeacetoday celebrates its fiftieth year of fighting for a greener, fairer and more peaceful world. From the founding voyage in 1971 of a group of activists in a rickety boat to stop nuclear testing ... More >>
Greenpeace Turns 50
Wednesday, 15 September 2021, 5:47 am | Greenpeace
Fifty years ago, on September 15th 1971, a ship named the Greenpeace set out to confront and stop US nuclear weapons testing at Amchitka, one of Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. The crew of twelve never made it to Amchitka, but so contagious ... More >>
Report shows organic waste can support regenerative farming
Thursday, 2 September 2021, 8:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Aotearoa has teamed up with zero waste group The Rubbish Trip to launch a report detailing how Aotearoa could close the loop on food waste, whilst supplying regenerative and organic farmers and growers with high quality compost. More >>
End Of Leaded Petrol Means That The Era Of Excuses Ends
Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 6:07 am | Greenpeace
30 August, 2021, Johannesburg – The United Nations Environment Programme is set to announce the official end of leaded petrol today at 4 pm CET. This global achievement comes after Algeria saw the last refinery in the world phase-out of the toxic additive. ... More >>
Fonterra Funded Research Tries To Bury Nitrate Cancer Risk - Greenpeace
Tuesday, 31 August 2021, 5:23 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says research released by ESR and co-funded by dairy giant Fonterra excludes the most at-risk rural communities in its investigation into bowel cancer risk from nitrate in drinking water. Following significant international studies showing a ... More >>
Greenpeace calls for full Māui habitat protection as survey reveals further decline
Monday, 30 August 2021, 1:33 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
A leaked Government report has revealed Māui dolphin numbers have declined further over the past five years, prompting Greenpeace to renew their call to protect the dolphins’ full habitat range. The report, part of which has been seen by Greenpeace, ... More >>
Backdown on winter grazing rules ‘delaying the inevitable’
Friday, 27 August 2021, 1:14 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is today condemning a Government decision to reverse rules that would protect water by regulating intensive winter grazing. Winter grazing churns paddocks to deep mud because intensive numbers of stock are confined to small feeding areas ... More >>
Greenpeace Activists Deliver Message To Talley’s Bottom Trawling Ship
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 6:46 pm | Greenpeace
Thursday, August 12, Port Dunedin: Greenpeace activists have this evening underlined the call for bottom trawling to be banned on seamounts, confronting Talley’s ship the Amaltal Explorer as it headed out for more ocean destruction. A small team of ... More >>
Expert Review Confirms Industry Tool Doesn’t Reliably Track Water Contamination - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 11 August 2021, 3:35 pm | Greenpeace
A new review out today of farm nutrient management system Overseer seriously damns the tool, and shows the model is leading to continued contamination of water and pollution of the climate, says Greenpeace. Overseer is a software program designed ... More >>
Blackouts Inevitable Result Of Decades Of Underinvestment In Renewables - Greenpeace
Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 12:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to urgently unlock new investment in distributed solar, wind power and battery storage following news that unprecedented electricity demand caused blackouts in parts of the country last night. Unison, estimates that ... More >>
Cameroonians Rally To Demand EU Stop Deforestation For Rubber
Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 5:24 am | Greenpeace
Rally in Yaoundé Monday, 9 August 2021, Yaoundé – More than 30 young Cameroonian activists crowded in front of the headquarters of the European Union Delegation in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, this morning to demand the end of the EU support ... More >>
Delaying Climate Action On Agriculture No Longer An Option - Greenpeace
Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 5:05 am | Greenpeace
Aug 9, 2021 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has today released a report summarising the latest scientific understanding of the climate crisis, giving a stark warning of where we are headed if urgent action isn’t taken. Greenpeace ... More >>
New Zealand Exporting Plastic Waste To Developing Nations At An Alarming Rate
Monday, 9 August 2021, 10:55 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Following the release of new data on the quantity of New Zealand’s plastic waste exports to many developing nations, Greenpeace Aotearoa is renewing its call for a ban on plastic waste exports. It has been revealed today that New Zealand has exported ... More >>
