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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 >>
With Nash Gone, Vital Ocean And Fisheries Decisions Must Not Fall Between Cracks, Says Greenpeace
Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 6:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
At a crucial moment for ocean protection, Greenpeace is urging the Government to ensure the Oceans and Fisheries portfolio is left in capable hands, to avoid any further delays in protecting the struggling marine environment. Stuart Nash was dismissed ... More >>
Action At Sea Against Deep Sea Mining
Monday, 27 March 2023, 11:56 am | Greenpeace
Eastern Pacific Ocean, 26th March 2023 - As critical negotiations at the controversial International Seabed Authority (ISA) meeting in Jamaica continue, the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise with three New Zealanders on board has intercepted a deep sea ... More >>
Greenpeace And Indigenous Activists Challenge Deep Sea Mining Expedition In The Pacific Ocean
Monday, 27 March 2023, 5:54 am | Greenpeace
With a banner reading "Don’t mine the Moana", and flying a Tino Rangatiratanga flag, a Māori activist from Northland joined two Greenpeace activists in the Eastern Pacific to confront the deep sea mining research vessel, James Cook today off the ... More >>
International Report Shines A Spotlight On Fonterra’s Greenwash
Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 8:19 pm | Greenpeace
A new international report called ‘ Feeding Us Greenwash: An analysis of misleading claims in the food sector’ outlines over 50 examples of greenwashing from across the global food sector - with a specific emphasis on meat and dairy and New Zealand ... More >>
Indigenous Peoples From 34 Nations Call For Total Ban On Deep Sea Mining
Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 5:55 am | Greenpeace
Indigenous activists have made clear that they don’t give their consent to deep sea mining. In a petition presented today to the ISA, over 1,000 signatories from 34 countries and 56 Indigenous groups called for a total ban on this destructive ... More >>
Industry Lobbying Influence A Major Brake On Government Action - Greenpeace
Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 12:29 pm | Greenpeace
In the wake of revelations that Chris Hipkins' chief of staff, Andrew Kirton, lobbied against the Container Return Scheme on behalf of the liquor industry shortly before the scheme was scrapped by the Prime Minister, Greenpeace is calling for the scheme ... More >>
