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Emissions Reduction Plan Fails By Omission Of Dairy Pollution
Monday, 16 May 2022, 2:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has dubbed the Government’s Emissions Reduction Plan an 'Omissions Ridiculous Plan’, for its failure to address New Zealand’s biggest climate polluter - the dairy industry. Lead agriculture campaigner Christine Rose says, "Intensive ... More >>
Campaigners Celebrate Win As Auckland Council Rejects Pakiri Sand Mining
Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 2:15 pm | Greenpeace
A proposal to mine sand off Pakiri beach has been rejected by Auckland Council in a move local groups are celebrating as a huge environmental win. Mining company McCallum Brothers Ltd has been seeking to expand its offshore dredging operation from Pakiri ... More >>
Emissions Reduction Plan Must Cut Big Dairy Pollution To Be Credible
Monday, 9 May 2022, 12:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
9 May: Greenpeace Aotearoa says that to be credible, the Government’s upcoming Emissions Reduction Plan must cut climate pollution from intensive dairy - New Zealand’s biggest climate polluter. In a speech today, Climate Change Minister, James Shaw, ... More >>
The Pacific Can’t Survive If Richest Corporations And Governments Continue To Put Profits Over People And Planet
Friday, 6 May 2022, 7:05 am | Greenpeace
SUVA , May 6 2022 - Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman has warned that the survival of the Pacific is in peril if the world’s biggest polluters continue to put profit over people and planet, in Suva overnight. Prime Minister Loughman made the remarks ... More >>
Global And Pacific Civil Society Comes Together To Back Vanuatu Government Climate Campaign
Friday, 6 May 2022, 5:34 am | Greenpeace
PORT VILA, May 5 - A global alliance of civil society groups, representing over 1500 civil society organisations in 130 countries, has launched today to support a powerful new climate justice initiative by the Government of Vanuatu to take the ... More >>
Sea Level Rise Data Highlights The Need To Act On Dairy Pollution
Monday, 2 May 2022, 12:29 pm | Greenpeace
Explosive new sea level rise data released on the weekend highlights the urgency of acting on climate pollution from New Zealand’s intensive dairy industry, says Greenpeace Aotearoa. The modeling by NZ SeaRise shows sea level rise could be twice ... More >>
Intensive Winter Grazing Rule Changes Cave In To Intensive Dairy
Friday, 29 April 2022, 3:44 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
29 April: Greenpeace says the Government’s updated intensive winter grazing rules cave in to intensive dairy and are a missed opportunity to improve environmental management and animal welfare. Greenpeace Aotearoa lead agriculture campaigner Christine ... More >>
Greenpeace Joins Legal Action On "Greenwashed" Kapuni Hydrogen Project
Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 4:19 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
26 April: Greenpeace has filed notice to be heard as an Interested Party on a legal appeal by Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui opposing a Kapuni fertiliser project given approval under the Ardern Government’s Covid-19 fast-track consenting legislation. Greenpeace ... More >>
Greenpeace Africa Calls To Scrap “Historic Error” To Auction 16 New Oil Blocks
Friday, 15 April 2022, 5:59 am | Greenpeace
DR Congo chooses oil over rainforests and human rights: Greenpeace Africa calls to scrap “historic error” to auction 16 new oil blocks Kinshasa, 14 April 2022: The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has approved at the ... More >>
Tide Shifts Against Seabed Mining As Tuvalu Withdraws Support
Thursday, 14 April 2022, 3:47 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is thrilled that Tuvalu has rescinded its support of deep sea mining saying it adds growing weight for a call to caution about the emerging industry and its potential for environmental destruction. In a dramatic reversal, Tuvalu Foreign ... More >>
State Of Environment Report Buries Dairy’s Deadly Nitrate Harm In Endnotes
Thursday, 14 April 2022, 10:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says the latest State of the Environment report acknowledges that industrial dairy is driving environmental breakdown, but seems to have cut mention of the cancer and preterm birth risks of nitrate contaminated drinking water. Greenpeace Senior ... More >>
Agriculture Still Tops Emissions, So Where’s The Action?
Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 3:00 pm | Greenpeace
12 April: Greenpeace says today’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory release from the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) underlines, yet again, the case for halving the bloated dairy herd. The report shows that since 1990, New Zealand’s gross emissions have ... More >>
Call Received To Freeze Russian Oligarch Assets In Aotearoa
Monday, 11 April 2022, 3:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Alongside the veteran protest yacht Vega today in Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour, Greenpeace Aotearoa Programme Director Niamh O’Flynn presented a petition to Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control, Phil Twyford, calling on the New Zealand Government ... More >>
Date Change For ‘Freeze Oligarch Assets’ Petition Delivery
Friday, 8 April 2022, 9:36 am | Greenpeace
On Monday 11th April in Auckland , Greenpeace will present a petition to Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control, Phil Twyford calling on the New Zealand Government to "freeze oligarch assets" to put pressure on Vladimir Putin to end the ... More >>
Greenpeace Incredulous Over James Shaw’s Dairy Denial
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 1:04 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has taken aim at the Minister for Climate Change and co-leader of the Green Party, James Shaw, over his recent comments regarding cow numbers in New Zealand. Greenpeace has been increasingly critical of Shaw over recent months, but things ... More >>
Greenpeace To Present ‘freeze Oligarch Assets’ Petition To Government
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 12:40 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Overnight the New Zealand Government has increased its list of sanctions on Russian people and entities, but Greenpeace Aotearoa says the sanctions are token and have still missed the most obvious target - Alexander Abramov, the Russian oligarch with ... More >>
Latest IPCC Report Demonstrates Action Needed On Dairy
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 5:35 am | Greenpeace
5 April: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III delivered the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report to world governments today. The new report looks at climate change mitigation. It builds on previous Working ... More >>
Greenpeace Slams Ardern Govt Over New Oil Exploration Ahead Of Latest IPCC Report
Monday, 4 April 2022, 3:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has slammed the Government over news that the crown minerals regulator has allowed Greymouth Petroleum to piggyback off an existing mining permit to commence seismic blasting in an adjacent area of more than 260 square kilometers. "Allowing ... More >>
Greenpeace: Logging Audit Spells Disaster For The Democratic Republic Of Congo (DRC) And Its Donors
Saturday, 2 April 2022, 6:33 am | Greenpeace
Kinshasa, 1 April 2022: After three months of pressure from Greenpeace Africa, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has finally realized it was no longer possible not to publish an explosive 2020 audit by the General Inspectorate of Finance ... More >>
Taumata Arowai Water Proposals "Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing" - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 7:07 am | Greenpeace
A stoush is brewing between Greenpeace and the Government’s new drinking water regulator Taumata Arowai. The environment group is calling the agency's proposals for increasing the permissible amounts of 17 toxins in people’s drinking water ... More >>
