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National Promises Dirty Rivers And More Fuel For Climate Fires - Greenpeace
Thursday, 24 September 2020, 1:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, 24 Sept: Greenpeace is calling the National Party’s newly announced agriculture policy "tantamount to climate denial" and "a promise for more dirty rivers." The National Party’s policy would delay bringing agriculture ... More >>
No Time To Lose: Call For Incoming Govt To Implement Cameras On Boats Within First Term
Monday, 21 September 2020, 3:53 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has today launched a call for the incoming government to prioritise cameras on boats across the full commercial fishing fleet, and to complete implementation within their first term. To launch the campaign, Greenpeace teamed up with recreational ... More >>
Greenpeace Applauds Green Party Vision For Thriving Oceans
Sunday, 20 September 2020, 2:45 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is applauding the Greens marine policy, released today, saying it sets a strong vision for healthy and thriving oceans. Jessica Desmond, oceans campaigner at Greenpeace Aotearoa, says she’s pleased to see the Greens take a big picture ... More >>
National Throwing Fuel On The Fire As The World Burns - Greenpeace
Saturday, 19 September 2020, 2:36 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling the National Party’s newly announced energy policy blatant climate denial and an affront to all the people and communities already suffering the impacts of climate change. It has been reported that the National Party will ... More >>
Greenpeace Celebrates Green Party Commitment To End PKE
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 11:43 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Saturday, 12 September: Greenpeace is labelling the commitment to end the use of Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) "bold and transformational". The commitment has just been announced as part of the Green Party Agriculture Policy. "Synthetic ... More >>
Greenpeace "underwhelmed" By National Party Electric Vehicles Policy
Friday, 11 September 2020, 1:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The National Party has today announced a pledge to have 80,000 electric vehicles in the national fleet by 2023, and to make the Government's fleet one-third electric by the same date. National would allow businesses who pay for employer-provided electric ... More >>
Labour’s Energy Policy "stingy" In The Context Of Multi-billion Dollar Covid Recovery
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 2:06 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says they are underwhelmed by today’s energy announcement from the Labour Party . The environmental organisation says that while the policy includes some positive steps for decarbonising New Zealand’s energy system, it’s nowhere ... More >>
Greenpeace: "11 Years For 20% Camera Coverage On Boats, Where Are The Rest Of Them?"
Friday, 4 September 2020, 10:09 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling the Government’s cameras on boats announcement too little, too late, after Minister Stuart Nash revealed commitments to put cameras on approximately 20 per cent of the fleet by 2024. The Minister of Fisheries made the announcement ... More >>
Greenpeace Response To Govt’s Plastic Plan Announcement
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 8:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the Government’s announcement today of a plan to phase out more single-use plastics, but is calling for the ban to cover a wider range of products, including plastic drink bottles. "The world is drowning in plastic ... More >>
Greenpeace Wins High Court Charity Case Appeal
Monday, 10 August 2020, 3:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The High Court has ruled today that Greenpeace is entitled to register as a charity and that the Charities Registration Board was in error for declining the environmental campaigning organisation’s application. In a summary of the judgement posted online ... More >>
Put Plastic Blame Where It Belongs - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 3:51 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is delighted to see the Government starting to put the burden of some of plastic pollution back where it belongs - with the companies that make and sell plastic. Today Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage announced regulated product ... More >>
Fertiliser Blockade Ends, But Greenpeace Says Campaign Will Continue
Monday, 27 July 2020, 4:16 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday, 27 July: Climate protesters have successfully concluded a blockade at a synthetic fertiliser factory owned by agri-chemical company Ballance, but Greenpeace says public opposition to the "climate-wrecking" chemical is still growing. ... More >>
Blockade Of Taranaki Synthetic Nitrogen Plant Continues - Greenpeace
Monday, 27 July 2020, 1:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Early this morning, Greenpeace and Climate Justice Taranaki protesters began a blockade of a synthetic nitrogen fertiliser factory owned by agri-chemical company Ballance. Five activists are still locked to a blockade of the factory entrance in Kapuni, ... More >>
Greenpeace Protesters Blockade Fertiliser Factory, Taranaki
Monday, 27 July 2020, 10:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Protestors have halted the distribution of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser this morning in Kapuni in Taranaki, citing the chemical’s destructive climate impact. The Greenpeace activists have locked on to a blockade structure at the entrance to ... More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes Māori Party’s Bold Climate Policy
Saturday, 18 July 2020, 4:27 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is applauding the Māori Party for its bold climate change policy, and encourages Co-Leader Debbie Ngārewa-Packer to make climate change a bottom line in any potential coalition negotiations following September’s election. The Māori ... More >>
Groups Against Seabed Mining Will “vigorously Oppose” Supreme Court Appeal By Miners
Friday, 17 July 2020, 2:53 pm | Greenpeace
The Supreme Court today granted Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) leave to appeal a 3 April Court of Appeal judgment that upheld a High Court decision which had quashed the company’s consent to dig up 50 million tonnes of the South Taranaki Bight seabed ... More >>
Face Your Plastic Footprint - Coke Told
Tuesday, 14 July 2020, 8:44 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace NZ is challenging Coca Cola to face up to its embarrassing contribution to ocean pollution for Plastic Free July. Coca Cola Amatil floods NZ with hundreds of millions of plastic bottles annually - the majority of which end up in landfill ... More >>
UN Intervention Needed On Suspected Murder Case Linked To Global Tuna Trader
Tuesday, 14 July 2020, 8:11 am | Greenpeace
The suspected murder of an I-Kiribati fisheries observer in March of this year demands UN intervention to ensure effective and thorough investigation, according to a formal complaint by Greenpeace USA and the Association for Professional Observers (APO) ... More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes Green Party Plan To Boost Solar And End Coal/Gas
Sunday, 12 July 2020, 4:27 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is applauding the Green Party on their energy policy announcement today but seeks assurances that the Greens will make phasing out fossil fuels and investing in distributed renewable energy a bottom line in any potential coalition negotiations. ... More >>
New Study Finds Nitrogen Pollution Puts Us At Risk
Friday, 10 July 2020, 8:28 am | Greenpeace
A new international study warns that nitrogen pollution from the livestock sector poses risks to human health and the environment, from water and air pollution to worsening the climate crisis. The study, titled ' Nitrogen emissions along global ... More >>
