Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Greenpeace
Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice.
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.
Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 4]
Hurricane Melissa Risks Flattening Jamaica: Big Oil Must Be Made To Pay
Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 8:11 am | Greenpeace
Costs from previous hurricanes have reached hundreds of billions of USD. It’s time to make polluters – not ordinary people – pay for this More >>
Pacific Activists Protest Deep Sea Mining As U.S Exploration Vessel Enters Port
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 11:04 am | Greenpeace
Four activists in kayaks paddled alongside the Nautilus, which has spent the last three weeks on a U.S. funded research expedition surveying mineral nodule fields around the Cook Islands in partnership with the Cook Islands Government. More >>
Two Years On: The Cost Of The Government’s War On Nature
Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 8:19 am | Greenpeace
To mark the two-year anniversary of the election, Greenpeace has released a comprehensive timeline documenting the environmental actions of the Luxon Government. More >>
Luxon "Goes Full Trump" With Climate-denying Methane Backdown - Greenpeace
Sunday, 12 October 2025, 1:14 pm | Greenpeace
At the heart of the move to reduce methane targets is a controversial accounting trick called "no additional warming", designed to justify continued high levels of agricultural methane emissions - even as science shows they must fall fast. More >>
‘Nitrate Emergency Starts Here’: Greenpeace Brings Water Crisis Back To Fonterra’s HQ
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 12:15 pm | Greenpeace
"The nitrate emergency may be showing up in Canterbury’s taps, but it starts right here in Fonterra’s boardrooms. While rural communities are unable to drink from their taps without fear of getting sick, Miles Hurrell is making millions." More >>
Bottom Trawling A Triple Threat To Marine Environments - New Report
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 11:25 am | Greenpeace
The Ministry for Environment and Stats NZ report, Tō Tātou Taiao Moana/Our Marine Environment 2025, released today, is a recognition of multiple threats the ocean faces & a "scathing indictment of government failure to protect the marine environment" More >>
‘Nitrate Emergency Starts Here’: Greenpeace Pins Blame On Canterbury Dairy Conversions
Friday, 3 October 2025, 11:21 am | Greenpeace
"There can be no more dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency," says Appelbe. "There are simply too many cows on the Canterbury plains and we can’t afford to add any more. New Zealand needs to reduce the dairy herd size, not grow it." More >>
Luxon’s Trump-Like Energy Policy Heads Down A Fossil Fuel Dead End
Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 9:34 am | Greenpeace
The Luxon Government today announced its long awaited energy initiatives, which included Government subsidies for a fossil gas (LNG) import facility, subsidies for new fossil fuel generation, and re-announced subsidies for fossil fuel exploration. More >>
International Organisations Condemn ‘No Additional Warming’ Approach As NZ Methane Target Decision Looms
Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 11:27 am | Greenpeace
No additional warming is a political trick dressed up as science. It pretends current methane emissions are fine - when in reality, they’re fuelling the climate crisis, Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Amanda Larsson says. More >>
Seamount Protection Considered To Protect Crashed Fish Stock
Monday, 29 September 2025, 5:11 pm | Greenpeace
The Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Shane Jones announced today that catch limits in the Chatham Rise, New Zealand’s most important orange roughy fishing ground, will be slashed in half to 2,349 tonnes. More >>
Greenpeace Calls For Investors To Boycott Wannabe Seabed Miner As They List On NZ Stock Exchange
Monday, 29 September 2025, 8:10 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling on New Zealand investors and financial institutions to boycott MKR and its destructive seabed mining project in the South Taranaki Bight, Greenpeace spokesperson Juressa Lee says. More >>
Greenpeace Activists Convicted And Discharged Over Seabed Mining Action
Friday, 26 September 2025, 5:37 pm | Greenpeace
Taranaki communities - including iwi, environmentalists, fisher people, boaties and surfers are united in our opposition to seabed mining. We will continue to take action until we know Tangaroa is protected, activist Kate Paris, of Pātea says. More >>
Luxon Govt Joins Trump's Climate Stupidity Club
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 1:54 pm | Greenpeace
More than thirty thousand people have signed a Greenpeace open letter pledging to resist the oil and gas industry should they return to explore for new oil and gas in New Zealand. More >>
$26 Billion In Dirty Money: Fonterra Cashes In After Contaminating Drinking Water
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 11:25 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling for an end to dairy expansion because of the environmental harm caused by the industry. More >>
Former World Leaders Call For New Climate Taxes On Oil & Gas Industry: Greenpeace Comment
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 5:49 pm | Greenpeace
The message from citizens and former leaders alike is clear: governments must find the courage to decisively tax oil and gas corporations and redirect those funds towards a just transition away from fossil fuels and a safe future in the face of a climate ... More >>
Greenpeace USA Unveils Giant “Bill” With Expected Economic Damages From Just 5 Major Oil & Gas Companies At NYC
Sunday, 21 September 2025, 5:39 am | Greenpeace
In the coming weeks, Greenpeace organisations worldwide will deliver more giant polluter bills that reflect the economic cost of emissions from oil and gas corporations. More >>
Historic Ocean Treaty To Enter Into Force
Saturday, 20 September 2025, 5:05 pm | Greenpeace
The Treaty was agreed to by UN member states in 2023 , but could not pass into law until 60 countries had ratified it, a milestone which was reached today. More >>
Greenpeace Applauds ECan For Declaring Nitrate Emergency, Calls For Candidates To Pledge Real Action
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 1:30 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace’s Canterbury-based spokesperson Will Appelbe says, "Canterbury is facing a nitrate emergency and today, Environment Canterbury has listened to the voices of their constituents and finally acknowledged the seriousness of this issue." More >>
Cantabrians Say "Enough": Nitrate-Polluted Tap Water Returned To ECan
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 10:29 am | Greenpeace
Today’s rally takes place as councillors head into their final meeting before the local elections. At this meeting, councillors will vote on a motion to declare a 'Nitrate Emergency’ - put forward by Councillor Vicky Southworth. More >>
"Tough On Crime" Government Lets Repeat Pesticide Offenders Off The Hook
Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 8:06 am | Greenpeace
Documents released to Greenpeace show that since 2021, four companies were caught selling food with illegally high levels of pesticide residues on multiple occasions. Yet, in the past nine years, the Government has not prosecuted a single company for ... More >>
