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Greenpeace Welcomes Northland Mining Pullout
Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 5:36 pm | Greenpeace
Seabed mining campaigner Juressa Lee says: "The victory over mining company Mineralogy International demonstrates the collective power of resistance in iwi, local communities and environmental groups working together. More >>
Jones Reveals Govt’s Actual Climate Policy - Expanding Fossil Fuel Extraction
Friday, 31 January 2025, 11:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
"Just a few hours after the Government released an updated Paris Climate Target, their actual climate policy was revealed by Shane Jones in the policy to increase fossil fuel extraction," says Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman. More >>
Latest Climate Target As Useful As Screen Door On A Submarine - Greenpeace
Friday, 31 January 2025, 8:30 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
"Against the backdrop of Luxon’s war on nature, not only is this target too weak to protect our kids and grandkids from a disastrous future but there is no plan to achieve even the targets we already have." More >>
NZ Climate Target Under International Scrutiny As Trading Partners Raise Concerns
Thursday, 30 January 2025, 1:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace spokesperson Amanda Larsson says, "Since taking office, Luxon has worked to roll back virtually every policy that cuts pollution. That includes giving our highest-emitting industry - dairying - a free pass to keep polluting." More >>
Luxon’s Bonfire Of Natural Capital Leaves New Zealand Poorer
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 11:09 am | Greenpeace
Luxon is due to give his State of the Nation speech today which will once again prioritise the War On Nature. These destructive policies, including the fast track law, have become one of the trademarks of his first year in office. More >>
Trump Exit From Paris Agreement Means NZ Must Rally With World To Save Climate
Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 2:34 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to significantly strengthen its climate target, in particular the goal to cut methane emissions. This is what the independent Climate Change Commission advised in its report at the end of last year. More >>
“Hell Of A Year”: Greenpeace Comments On Hottest Year On Record, The First To Exceed 1.5°C
Friday, 10 January 2025, 8:41 am | Greenpeace
Scientists are now putting numbers on what most of us already knew was a hell of a year, literally. It’s also been another year of ridiculous profits for the dirty oil and gas corporations fueling this crisis. More >>
Greenpeace Says Fast Track Law Will Continue To Be Resisted
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 8:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
"The Fast Track will destroy existing protections for freshwater, forests, oceans and wildlife. It ignores the concerns of local communities, and will allow zombie projects which have been previously rejected to come back to life." More >>
Court Rules Systemic Failings In Bycatch Reporting
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 11:19 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace oceans campaigner Juan Parada says the case demonstrates the serious issues with the FishServe model, a centre piece of ELI’s legal case, where the government and the Ministry of Primary Industries allow the fishing industry to self-regulate ... More >>
Greenpeace Slams Late Release Of Redacted Fast Track Seabed Mining Documents
Monday, 16 December 2024, 2:36 pm | Greenpeace
Over 20,000 people have signed an open letter pledging resistance to companies opting into the fast track, and a further 45,000 have signed a petition calling on the Government to ban seabed mining outright. More >>
Emissions Reduction Plan ‘Not Worth The Paper It’s Written On’ - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 9:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
"This Government has consistently allowed big polluters like the agribusiness industry and the fossil fuel industry to write the policy on climate change, and this abject failure of a plan is the result," says Deighton-O’Flynn. More >>
Explosive LNG Report Casts More Doubt On Govt’s Plan To Build Fossil Gas Import Terminal
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 8:07 am | Greenpeace
The ‘ Explosive Truths’ report commissioned by Greenpeace delves into the history of LNG accidents, highlighting a lack of transparency, underestimated risks to human safety, and failing safety protocols. More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes Action On Dairy Emissions In Greens’ Alternative Emissions Reduction Plan
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 6:19 pm | Greenpeace
"At a time when the Luxon-led government is caving to polluting industry lobbyists and undermining climate action across all fronts, it is refreshing to see an alternative pathway," says Greenpeace spokesperson Amanda Larsson. More >>
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 >>
