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Plastic Polluter Coca-Cola Receives Early Christmas Message From Greenpeace
Tuesday, 20 December 2022, 5:40 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa has sent Coca-Cola an early Christmas gift by brand jamming the plastic polluter’s products in Auckland. Volunteers concerned about plastic pollution headed back to the supermarkets once again and planted hangers on Coke ... More >>
Tonnes Of Airborne Microplastics Another Reason To Support A Global Plastics Treaty - Greenpeace
Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 8:43 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is reaffirming its call on the government to support a strong global plastics treaty after research reveals 74 metric tonnes of microplastics is dispersed onto Auckland every year. The research was conducted by scientists from ... More >>
Indigenous Participation Crucial In Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations - Greenpeace
Friday, 9 December 2022, 4:14 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling on the government to advocate for the interests of people and climate in negotiations for a global treaty that will end plastic pollution after the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC). The negotiations, ... More >>
Doomed Deep Sea Miner The Metals Company Under Huge Pressure
Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 3:09 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
In what Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling another heavy blow to deep sea mining - the Canadian miner The Metals Company has received a delisting notice from the Nasdaq stock exchange - after trading below USD$1 at closing bid price for 30 days in a ... More >>
Greenpeace Appeals Against Hiringa Hydrogen-to-urea With Hapū Backing
Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 12:45 pm | Greenpeace
With the support of Hapū of Ngāruahine in South Taranaki, Greenpeace Aotearoa is appealing against the High Court’s approval of the proposal to create hydrogen for the manufacture of urea at the Ballance-owned Kapuni fertiliser factory, in Te ... More >>
US Court Orders A Ban On Imports Of NZ Fish
Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 7:25 pm | Greenpeace
A US court has ordered an immediate ban on importing several fish species from New Zealand’s inshore trawling and gillnet fisheries off the west coast of the North Island. Conservation group Sea Shepherd had asked the US Court of International Trade ... More >>
Govt Shows Climate Sense On Oil Exploration While Luxon On Another Planet
Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 11:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the Government’s proposed changes to the Crown Minerals Act released today which remove the purpose of ‘promoting’ fossil fuel exploration and extraction from the Act but is calling for it to go further. "It’s good ... More >>
Greenpeace Confronts Deep Sea Mining Vessel
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 2:21 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists have peacefully confronted a deep sea mining ship off the coast of Manzanillo, México as it returned to port from the Pacific. The Hidden Gem, commissioned by Canadian miner The Metals Company, has just returned from eight weeks of test ... More >>
Greenpeace Aotearoa Seeks To Hear From Pacific Peoples On Deep Sea Mining
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 11:45 am | Greenpeace
As the movement against deep sea mining continues to grow, Greenpeace Aotearoa is asking people of the Pacific to share their views on the industry with a new online survey translated into nine Pacific languages. Results from the survey will inform ... More >>
French President Calls For A Ban On Deep Sea Mining At COP27
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 2:52 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is today celebrating the announcement from French President Emmanuel Macron at COP27 that France supports an outright ban on deep sea mining - saying it shows just how quickly the tide is turning against the destructive industry. "Coming ... More >>
Antarctic Protected Areas Failure Proves Urgent Need For Global Oceans Treaty
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 10:54 am | Greenpeace
As the annual Antarctic Ocean Commission (CCAMLR) fails to agree on long-promised Marine Protected Areas, Greenpeace is calling for governments to urgently invest in the solution - a strong Global Oceans Treaty agreement at the UN. The latest CCAMLR ... More >>
Public Meeting With Otago Uni Health Expert For Nitrate-hit Waimate
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 9:47 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace will be offering free drop-in water testing for nitrate-impacted Glenavy residents near Waimate, and on the same day host a public meeting on nitrate contamination with public health researcher Dr Tim Chambers at the Glenavy Hall on Tuesday 15 November ... More >>
New Zealand’s Support For Deep Sea Mining Moratorium A Win For Ocean Protection
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 1:07 pm | Greenpeace
The environmental movement is celebrating the New Zealand Government’s decision to back a conditional global moratorium on deep sea mining as a win for the ocean and people power, saying it’s a vital step in protecting the ocean from the destructive ... More >>
Greenpeace Aotearoa Renews Call For A Strong Global Plastics Treaty
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 10:54 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Aotearoa has renewed calls for the government to advocate for a strong, legally-binding global plastics treaty as world governments meet at the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC1) in Uruguay next month. A petition for a plastics ... More >>
Greenpeace Calls On UN To Reject Corporate Sponsors Like Coca-Cola From Climate Talks
Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 8:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling for corporate sponsors to be kept out of United Nations (UN) international climate talks. The call comes after Coca-Cola, the world’s worst plastic polluter, was named as a sponsor of next month’s COP27 climate conferenc ... More >>
Signing Deals For Congo Fossil Gas In Two Weeks: Mission Impossible, Says Greenpeace Africa
Friday, 14 October 2022, 6:09 am | Greenpeace
Kinshasa, 13 October 2022 – Nine companies are bidding for exploration rights to fossil gas in Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) including US-based Symbion Power , a firm listed without clear experience in gas exploration. DRC’s ... More >>
Cut Emissions And Ban Destructive Fishing To Protect Marine Environment, Says Greenpeace
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 12:51 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to take further measures to protect the ocean from decline, following the release of a new report from the Ministry for the Environment. The Our Marine Environment 2022 report paints a grim picture of ocean ... More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes Minister Mahuta’s Decision To Sanction Billionaire Oligarch Alexander Abramov
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 4:10 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is welcoming the Government’s decision to sanction influential Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov but is also calling for the sanctions to go further. Greenpeace has called for the Government to freeze the New Zealand-based assets of ... More >>
He Waka Eke Noa Fails To Cut Dairy Emissions
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 9:11 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa says that even with amendments released today, the Government’s farmgate emissions pricing system known as He Waka Eke Noa will fail to cut climate emissions from agriculture, New Zealand's biggest polluter. Greenpeace lead climate ... More >>
Report Shows Tree Planting No Substitute For Cutting Dairy Emissions
Friday, 7 October 2022, 9:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Aotearoa says that a new report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) shows New Zealand can’t plant its way out of climate pollution from intensive dairy. Instead, the Government has to act - and cut synthetic nitrogen ... More >>
