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Electric Vehicles Announcement A "Baby Step" For The Climate - Greenpeace
Thursday, 13 May 2021, 5:22 am | Greenpeace
May 12, 2021 In response to today’s announcement that the Government will procure 422 new electric vehicles for the public sector, Greenpeace Climate Campaigner, Amanda Larsson, says: "More electric vehicles for the public sector is a small step ... More >>
New UN Climate Report Shows Cutting Methane Crucial For Climate And Health - Greenpeace
Friday, 7 May 2021, 6:24 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is today urging the Government to heed United Nations’ advice to rapidly cut climate pollution from methane through lowering cow stocking rates and cutting synthetic nitrogen fertiliser. The report , produced by the United Nations Environment ... More >>
Budget 2021: Found Billion Dollars A "Second Chance" To Build Back Better
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 1:42 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling on Finance Minister, Grant Robertson to use the recently uncovered $926 million of unspent Covid Recovery funds to make good on Labour’s election promise to ‘Build Back Better’. The funds could provide a much-needed boost to ... More >>
NZ Dairy Industry’s Use Of Palm Kernel Expeller Undermining Indonesia’s Climate Action
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 3:28 pm | Greenpeace
The use of palm kernel expeller (PKE) by New Zealand’s intensive dairying industry is linked to the destruction of peatland and rainforests, which is driving the climate crisis. A new Greenpeace International report has found evidence of systematic violations ... More >>
25-tonne Deep Sea Mining Robot Lost On Pacific Ocean Seabed During Trial
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 9:13 am | Greenpeace
One of the world’s first deep sea mining pilot tests has resulted in a huge machine being stuck on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. A broken cable has resulted in the mining company Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) losing control of its 25-tonne ... More >>
Climate Summit: Following NZ’s Lead On Climate Action Would Be A Disaster, Says Greenpeace
Friday, 23 April 2021, 12:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling out Jacinda Ardern’s lack of action on emissions from agriculture as the Prime Minister speaks at the Leaders Summit on Climate convened by US President Biden. In a speech during the summit, Ardern encouraged all countries to put a price ... More >>
Deep Sea Mining Tests Indicate "significant Disturbance", Greenpeace Reveals
Friday, 23 April 2021, 11:15 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Eastern Central Pacific Ocean, 22nd April 2021 - Greenpeace has documented signs of "significant disturbance" from deep sea mining tests in the Pacific Ocean. New images reveal a large patch of sediment rising to the surface of the water ... More >>
Big Irrigation Consent Locks In Climate, Water, And Health Damage - Greenpeace
Friday, 23 April 2021, 9:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is today condemning a large-scale irrigation consent as ‘locking in overstocking of the land with dairy cows which is bad news for our climate, a guarantee of more water pollution and a risk to human health.’ Environment Canterbury has ... More >>
Greenpeace Issues ‘please Explain’ To Austrian Govt Over New OMV Spying Allegations
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 10:42 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling on the Austrian Government to explain why OMV, a state controlled oil company, has been using the notorious Thompson & Clark spy agency to actively thwart legitimate climate protests in New Zealand. This comes ... More >>
Greenpeace Launches Petition To "slam Door In Face" Of Seabed Miners
Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 10:11 am | Greenpeace
Tuesday, 20 April 2021: Greenpeace has today launched a new petition calling on the New Zealand Government to ban seabed mining from the waters of Aotearoa. The petition calls on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to give New Zealand another world ... More >>
Report Lays Bare The Dire Consequences Of Govt’s Lax Approach To Dairying - Greenpeace
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 2:31 pm | Greenpeace
A Ministry for the Environment report released today shows the widespread scale of destruction caused by intensive dairying, says Greenpeace. The report, Our Land 2021 , details the decline of soil and freshwater health, and examines the climate ... More >>
Biden Summit: Charities And Churches Call On Morrison To Halve Emissions By 2030
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 9:01 am | Greenpeace
More than 10 environmental and humanitarian organisations including Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Oxfam Australia, the Pacific Climate Action Network, The Pacific Conference of Churches, and the Edmund Rice Centre have used a full-page newspaper ... More >>
Greenpeace: Agriculture Still Tops Emissions, So Where's The Action?
Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 12:40 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The latest inventory of New Zealand's climate pollution shows, yet again, that the Government must take urgent action to make farming part of the climate solution, says Greenpeace. The Ministry for the Environment today released its 2019 inventory ... More >>
Cautious Applause From Greenpeace On Government’s Coal Boiler Ban
Thursday, 8 April 2021, 10:04 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is welcoming today’s announcement from the Government banning new coal boilers for industrial processing, but remains concerned that New Zealand’s biggest climate polluter - industrial agriculture - has yet to be regulated. "This decision ... More >>
Greenpeace Confronts Deep Sea Mining Industry In Pacific Ocean
Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 5:34 am | Greenpeace
Clarion Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean, 6th April 2021 - Activists onboard the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior are today taking action hundreds of miles out to sea, against deep sea mining company DeepGreen. A team of activists are confronting a vessel used ... More >>
Greenpeace Supports Call For Drawing ‘Pacific Blue Line’ Against Deep Sea Mining
Thursday, 25 March 2021, 3:44 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is standing in support of a Pacific-led push to draw a Blue Line against the emerging Deep Sea Mining industry, the organisation said today. A collection of Pacific civil society groups, including the Pacific Conferences of Churches (PCC), ... More >>
Ocean Can’t Wait, Urgent Action Needed, Says Greenpeace Following Chief Sci Report
Tuesday, 23 March 2021, 10:19 am | Greenpeace
A long-awaited science report into New Zealand’s commercial fisheries has highlighted a lack of data on the ocean is one of the key problems with managing it, admitting we still know "frighteningly little" about a space we take so much from. ... More >>
Winter Grazing Backdown Shows Ardern Govt "Owned" By Big Dairy, Says Greenpeace
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 6:46 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says the Labour Government’s delay in implementing already-weak intensive winter grazing regulations is yet another example of them buckling to New Zealand’s "dirtiest industry." Environment Minister David Parker and Agriculture ... More >>
Aotearoa One Step Closer To A Safer, More Resilient Future With Surrender Of Last South Island Oil Permit
Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 1:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday 10 March : Greenpeace is celebrating the announcement that New Zealand Oil & Gas will relinquish their deep sea exploration permit off the south coast of the South Island as "another win for the climate, for wildlife and ... More >>
Community, Environmental Groups Support Te Pāti Māori Proposal To Ban Seabed Mining
Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 10:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, March 10: Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM), Greenpeace and the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) today voiced their support for Te Pāti Māori’s call for a ban on seabed mining in Aotearoa. "This is long overdue: we have ... More >>
