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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 >>
Dam decision huge victory against big irrigation
Thursday, 6 July 2017, 11:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says today’s court decision over the Ruataniwha Dam is a major victory in the struggle against big irrigation and the nationwide intensification of dairying. More >>
Too Many Cows Could Make Us Sick
Wednesday, 28 June 2017, 12:09 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists are taking over Parliament lawn this lunchtime with a herd of dairy cows. More >>
Apple, Samsung products among least repairable
Tuesday, 27 June 2017, 4:19 pm | Greenpeace
Apple, Samsung products among least repairable in new Greenpeace assessment of tech brands San Francisco, 27 June 2017 - Fairphone, Dell and HP are the only companies that make spare parts and repair manuals available to the public, while products ... More >>
Time for “diseased” electricity industry overhaul
Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 2:24 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, June 20: Greenpeace has called for an overhaul of the electricity industry after a complaint against a tax on solar was quashed in court. More >>
Dairy Bosses’ climate change plan is all talk
Wednesday, 14 June 2017, 2:50 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Dairy Bosses’ climate change plan is “all talk and no trousers” - Greenpeace Wednesday, 14 June 2017: Greenpeace says the Dairy Industry’s new “action plan” on climate change is completely lacking in any form of serious action. It‘s a charter ... More >>
Leaked report shows public misled over snapper policing
Tuesday, 6 June 2017, 7:14 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Leaked report shows public misled over snapper policing - Greenpeace. Tuesday, 6 June: A Government report leaked to Greenpeace shows the public is being misled over the effectiveness of video cameras used to police the fishing industry. A Ministry ... More >>
Greenpeace climbers prepare message above Beehive
Tuesday, 6 June 2017, 9:15 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, June 6: Four Greenpeace climbers are preparing to hang a large banner from a crane next to the Beehive to protest the arrival of US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, who is in Wellington. More >>
Trump can’t kill Paris Climate Agreement
Friday, 2 June 2017, 9:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, June 2: Greenpeace New Zealand has labeled Trump “morally bankrupt” over his decision abandon the Paris Climate Agreement, and is calling on Prime Minister Bill English to stand with other world leaders and speak out against the move. More >>
Government delays “morally repugnant” case against activists
Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 8:28 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, May 31: The Government has asked for more time to take a case against three Greenpeace activists who put themselves in the path of the world’s largest seismic oil ship, the Amazon Warrior, in April. More >>
Joyce’s Budget a “billion-dollar handout” to polluters
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 2:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, May 25: Greenpeace New Zealand’s Executive Director, Dr Russel Norman, has blasted Stephen Joyce’s first Budget for “actively funding” pollution. Norman says the just-released Budget pours money into subsidising water and climate ... More >>
Berlin and Beijing united on climate in the age of Trump
Monday, 22 May 2017, 8:56 pm | Greenpeace
Berlin, 22 May 2017 - German Environmental Minister Barbara Hendricks and Chinese Special Climate Envoy Xie Zhenhua jointly held a press conference at the opening of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, where the two ministers stressed the importance ... More >>
Govt’s “absence of a backbone” destroying NZ’s rivers
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 2:16 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to end public subsidies to think-big irrigation schemes that will create new intensive dairy farms and more freshwater pollution. More >>
