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Shock UN report reveals extent of mass extinction threat
Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 8:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, May 7: A report just released by the United Nations has warned that 1 million species are at risk of extinction - more than at any time in human history. More >>
NZ Govt must follow UK and declare climate emergency
Thursday, 2 May 2019, 11:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, May 2: Greenpeace is calling on the Government to follow the lead of the UK and declare a climate and environment emergency, after history making scenes in UK Parliament this morning saw MPs pass a motion to make the country the first in ... More >>
Drilling loophole undermines Ardern’s oil ban
Wednesday, 1 May 2019, 11:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, May 1: New Zealand Oil & Gas is the latest company to leverage the Government’s apparent willingness to offer extensions to oil exploration permits, despite the ban on new oil and gas permits that has seen New Zealand celebrated as ... More >>
Greenpeace activists occupy oil rig
Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 9:09 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, 30 April - Four Greenpeace activists have climbed aboard the oil rig West Hercules, located near Rypefjord village in the north of Norway. The four have now been on board for 12 hours. More >>
State of Environment report reveals NZ’s dirtiest industry
Thursday, 18 April 2019, 11:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The new State of the Environment report paints a "comprehensively damning" picture of the dairy industry. More >>
"Biggest conservation effort yet" launches to save oceans
Friday, 12 April 2019, 10:46 am | Greenpeace
Friday, April 12: Today, Greenpeace is launching one of its biggest conservation efforts yet, calling for a network of ocean sanctuaries to be created across the globe. More >>
Calls for sweeping new climate policy on oil banniversary
Friday, 12 April 2019, 9:15 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, April 12: On the first anniversary of New Zealand’s internationally acclaimed ban on new oil and gas permits, Greenpeace has called for sweeping new climate policy. More >>
Disaster prompts calls for new bottle deposit scheme
Thursday, 11 April 2019, 2:05 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday 11 April 2019: The West Coast dump disaster and newly released information about dozens of landfills nationwide being susceptible to failure from sea level rise has prompted further calls from environment and zero waste advocates for urgent ... More >>
Surging emissions show NZ needs stronger action on climate
Thursday, 11 April 2019, 12:40 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, April 11: New data released today showing that New Zealand’s emissions have continued to grow rapidly in 2017 have been called "disturbing" by Greenpeace. More >>
NZ drill plan reveal on oil ban anniversary "disgraceful"
Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 9:30 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, April 10: Oil giant OMV has today announced plans to drill for oil and gas in the Great South Basin off the Otago coast as soon as this year. This comes on the eve of the first anniversary of Jacinda Ardern’s historic oil and gas exploration ... More >>
How to protect a third of our oceans by 2030
Thursday, 4 April 2019, 3:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, April 4: A scientific report released today has mapped out how to protect over a third of the world’s oceans in the next ten years - a target scientists say is crucial in order to safeguard wildlife and mitigate the impacts of climate ... More >>
Latest ETS changes impotent without inclusion of agriculture
Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 3:25 pm | Greenpeace
Wednesday, 27 March: The Government has announced another range of changes to one of the country’s core policies to combat climate change, the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). More >>
Dairy and fertiliser lobbies will celebrate over PCE report
Tuesday, 26 March 2019, 3:31 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, 26 March: The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s (PCE) just-released report, Farms, Forests and Fossil Fuels, looks to have been influenced by the agricultural lobby, says Greenpeace. More >>
Greenpeace "disturbed" by directive to stop criticism
Tuesday, 12 March 2019, 4:32 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against a series of Greenpeace billboards reading: "Ravensdown and Ballance Pollute Rivers - #TooManyCows" More >>
Why care about Nitrogen?
Wednesday, 6 March 2019, 2:46 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The United Nations has placed nitrogen pollution on a hit list of the top five new environmental crises facing the globe. More >>
National turns new leaf on green attitude
Saturday, 23 February 2019, 9:05 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
National turns new leaf on green attitude but still lost on agriculture and climate - Greenpeace More >>
Greenpeace supports environmental taxation
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 2:31 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, 21 February: Greenpeace is calling on the Government to accept recommendations made by the Tax Working Group about environmental taxation and the capital gains tax. More >>
PEPANZ gas report nothing but "fake news and flatulence"
Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 6:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, February 19: An oil industry-commissioned report claiming to show the Government’s oil and gas exploration ban will cost billions is nothing but "fake news and flatulence", according to Greenpeace. More >>
Transpower issues "game changing" report on solar
Sunday, 10 February 2019, 11:20 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A new Transpower report into the future of electricity has been labelled "the most disruptive study to emerge in the New Zealand energy space". More >>
Nelson fires "tip of the ice sheet"
Thursday, 7 February 2019, 12:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, February 7: New Zealand scientists are behind a major new international research paper that shows dangerously unpredictable extreme weather could become a reality within decades as the impact of melting ice sheets becomes better understood. More >>
