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The world mourns Marshallese climate leader Tony de Brum
Thursday, 24 August 2017, 4:25 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
22 August 2017: Today the world mourns a fearless voice in the battle for global climate safety, Climate Ambassador and former Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Tony de Brum. More >>
Greenpeace tells farming leadership - show us the substance
Tuesday, 22 August 2017, 4:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the farming leadership’s acknowledgement that the problem with our waterways is greater than previously admitted. More >>
Australia’s Ambassador for Climate Distraction is Back
Tuesday, 22 August 2017, 11:16 am | Greenpeace
Patrick Suckling, Australia’s Ambassador for the Environment, is touring the Pacific Islands again, shamelessly spreading misleading messages on Australia’s climate action and solidarity with our vulnerable states. More >>
Greenpeace activists stop Statoil rig drilling in the Arctic
Friday, 18 August 2017, 9:42 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, August 18: A New Zealander is among a group of activists who have halted a Statoil rig drilling in the Arctic. More >>
Microbead policy a “good start”
Thursday, 17 August 2017, 4:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the Government’s latest announcement on microbeads as a good start. More >>
Super Fund’s $950m fossil fuel divestment an “aha” moment
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 2:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, August 15: Greenpeace is calling the New Zealand Superannuation Fund’s just-announced $950 million divestment from big polluters an “aha” moment for the country’s economy. More >>
Big Irrigation’s “death-grip” costs more than water charge
Friday, 11 August 2017, 3:50 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday 11 August 2017: “Farming leadership and politicians are scaremongering by using false facts on water pricing proposals in their latest effort to keep the dairy industry free of accountability for polluted rivers,” says Greenpeace’s ... More >>
NZ Govt Implicated in Covert Spy Operation on Greenpeace
Thursday, 10 August 2017, 10:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, August 10: Greenpeace New Zealand’s Executive Director, Dr Russel Norman, is calling on the Government to “categorically deny” any knowledge of a covert spy operation that saw staff at the environmental organisation being watched daily, ... More >>
Labour’s Plan a “Watershed” for Clean Rivers
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 11:55 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
9 August, 2017 - Greenpeace have welcomed Labour’s commitment to ditch National’s $480 million taxpayer fund for new irrigation schemes. More >>
“High time” for a Solar Revolution
Friday, 4 August 2017, 2:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
4th August 2017 - Reports that up to a third of electricity generated for New Zealand this winter has come from the burning of coal and gas have prompted Greenpeace to call for a Solar revolution. More >>
“We’ll be back” vows Greenpeace
Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 11:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
August 2017 - Tonight Greenpeace activists have brought their pipeline protest in Canterbury to a successful end. More >>
Greenpeace activists lock themselves inside irrigation pipes
Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 8:05 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday 2nd July – Greenpeace is bringing construction of an enormous irrigation scheme to a halt this morning. More >>
Campaign to tackle “gut wrenching” plastic problem
Monday, 31 July 2017, 9:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday, July 31: Greenpeace is throwing its weight behind the campaign to ban plastic bags from New Zealand supermarkets. More >>
Canadian Indigenous Rights Case Could Block Oil Exploration
Friday, 28 July 2017, 11:36 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, July 28: A David vs Goliath court case in Canada that has seen an indigenous community triumph in the country’s highest court to block oil exploration could have a ripple effect in New Zealand. More >>
Kiwi actor Lucy Lawless joins climate change protest
Saturday, 22 July 2017, 2:59 pm | Greenpeace
Kiwi actor Lucy Lawless joins climate change survivor in protest against Arctic exploitation for Norwegian oil More >>
Lucy Lawless & Greenpeace Confront Arctic Oil Drillers
Thursday, 20 July 2017, 9:46 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, July 20 - New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless has just set sail on the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, to confront the Norwegian oil giant Statoil as it drills for oil in the Arctic. More >>
Farmers star in Greenpeace film
Thursday, 13 July 2017, 4:04 pm | Greenpeace
The very group bearing the brunt of the blame for the contamination of our waterways. More >>
Greenpeace says council decision means dam is dead
Thursday, 13 July 2017, 10:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, July 13: Hawke’s Bay Regional Council appears to have hammered the last nail into the coffin of the Ruataniwha Irrigation Dam. More >>
Greenpeace launches new educational website
Sunday, 9 July 2017, 11:18 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace launches new educational website on anniversary of Rainbow Warrior bombing Sunday, July 9: Greenpeace New Zealand has today launched a new educational website about the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, which includes a series of never-seen-before ... More >>
Greenpeace’s reaction to PM’s conservation law change
Thursday, 6 July 2017, 3:11 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
“Every New Zealander needs to know that Bill English and the National Government is planning to steal our conservation land to be exploited for private profit.” says Greenpeace campaigner Genevieve Toop. More >>
