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Palm Kernel Imports Skyrocketing As Climate Crisis Worsens
Monday, 1 September 2025, 1:41 pm | Greenpeace
Palm kernel has been the subject of significant controversy due to links to rainforest destruction in Southeast Asia. Earlier this year, an Indonesian Government document revealed that all five of the companies bringing palm kernel into New Zealand were ... More >>
Power Company ‘Vampires’ Bleed Households Dry To Fund 1.4 Billion Dollar Shareholder Payout
Wednesday, 27 August 2025, 9:15 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling for urgent reform of the electricity sector. They say the Government should provide interest-free loans for household solar and consider intervening to cap the shareholder returns of the gentailers until they have sufficiently reinvested ... More >>
Grass-Fed Greenwash: Govt’s New Grass-Fed Standards Written By Fonterra
Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 9:16 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has received documents which prove that the grass-fed administrative standards were developed by an industry-led Technical Advisory Group, composed of dairy and red meat processors and lobby groups including Fonterra, Silver Fern Farms, and Beef ... More >>
Greenpeace Activists Arrested In Nelson After Occupying Bottom Trawling Vessel
Saturday, 23 August 2025, 12:20 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace spokesperson Juan Parada says, "These brave people have taken a stand for ocean health in delaying this vessel from leaving port to go bottom trawling." More >>
Greenpeace Activists Stop Talley’s Trawler From Leaving Nelson Port, Branding It An ‘Ocean Killer’
Saturday, 23 August 2025, 12:14 pm | Greenpeace
New Zealand is the last country operating a bottom trawling fleet in the High Seas of the South Pacific, including in an area of the Tasman Sea which has been flagged for early protection under the Global Ocean Treaty. More >>
Greenwash Case Still Hanging Over Fonterra’s Consumer Brands In Wake Of Sale To French Dairy Giant
Friday, 22 August 2025, 11:52 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace spokesperson Sinead Deighton-O’Flynn says "Fonterra may have washed its hands of Anchor products, including their Anchor Butter, but our legal case over Fonterra’s grassfed greenwash continues." More >>
ECAN Study Confirms Canterbury Nitrate Issue Escalating
Friday, 15 August 2025, 2:16 pm | Greenpeace
ECan’s latest Annual Ground Water Quality Survey released this week shows that nitrate-nitrogen contamination is worsening across 62% of groundwater wells, while 18% show no change in contamination and 20% show a decrease, in sites where a ten-year ... More >>
RMA Rollback Lets Agribusiness Dump Pollution Into Rivers Without Consent
Wednesday, 13 August 2025, 9:45 am | Greenpeace
The Government’s original bill proposed changing section 70 of the RMA so that councils could allow businesses to discharge contaminants to water without resource consent, even if it harmed aquatic life, so long as aquatic life was already being ... More >>
Academics Warn Luxon’s Approach To Climate Targets Risks Worsening Global Hunger
Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 6:48 pm | Greenpeace
"By advancing the dangerous concept of ‘no additional warming’ at the demand of the livestock lobby, international scientists say that Luxon and others will accelerate the climate crisis and worsen access to nutrition in poorer, food-insecure countries." More >>
Greenpeace Extends Invitation To Gore District Mayor To Work Together On Drinking Water Crisis
Thursday, 7 August 2025, 10:33 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Will Appelbe says "What Gore’s drinking water crisis highlights is something that we’ve known for a long time - we cannot allow unchecked dairy industry pollution to continue." More >>
Govt’s Anti-Climate Policies Should Be Top Of Hazards List In Latest Briefing Document
Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 1:55 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace spokesperson Amanda Larsson says "Top of the list of hazards should be the Government’s own policies, which are driving us closer to climate disaster. More >>
Jones Moves To Greenlight Ocean Destruction Through Reforms
Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 11:33 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says moves to weaken ocean protection through dodgy fisheries "reforms" will be met with strong opposition, as Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones announces he wants to proceed with a raft of proposed changes to fisheries laws. ... More >>
Greenpeace Turns On NZ First Over Its Support For Corporate Land Grab Bill
Tuesday, 5 August 2025, 4:24 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace accused the party of abandoning its values and backing a law that would see some of the country’s most ecologically sensitive land sold to multinational corporations, even if those corporations have a criminal history and have broken ... More >>
Luxon Opens The Door To Billions In Taxpayer-funded Oil Field Decommissioning Costs
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 1:54 pm | Greenpeace
In an act of climate denial, the Luxon Government is today planning to pass legislation to try to restart offshore oil and gas exploration, but they are also slipping in a further amendment that opens the door to taxpayers picking up the billion dollar ... More >>
Government Subsidies For Dirty Dairy Dams Will Lead To Polluted Drinking Water - Greenpeace
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 10:41 am | Greenpeace
New Zealanders from across the country have campaigned against the construction of irrigation dams for decades, and in 2017, the Labour-led Government ended government subsidies for irrigation dams as a result of this pressure. More >>
Luxon Govt Tries To Bring Back The Fax Machine
Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 2:33 pm | Greenpeace
"The Government should be building a clean, affordable energy future - not dragging New Zealand backwards into higher energy bills and climate chaos." More >>
Governments Must Rise To The Moment And Vote In Favour Of A Moratorium On Deep Sea Mining
Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 7:49 am | Greenpeace
While high-level representatives from Palau, France and Panama attended to rally the international community, Greenpeace is calling for greater efforts from more governments to put a legal barrier between mining machines and the deep ocean. More >>
What The Heck Winston? Greenpeace Queries NZ First Support For Seymour’s Overseas Investment Bill
Friday, 25 July 2025, 7:23 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace spokesperson Gen Toop says: "ACT is trying to change the Overseas Investment law to make it easier for multinational corporations to buy up and exploit conservation land, lakebeds, coastal zones, wāhi tapu sites and other sensitive land across Aotearoa." More >>
Gore 'Not Out Of The Woods Yet'- Nitrate Level Linked To Increased Risk Of Preterm Birth
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 3:17 pm | Greenpeace
While the township’s do-not-drink notice has been lifted, Greenpeace freshwater campaigner Will Appelbe says there is still a risk to public health. More >>
World Court’s Climate Ruling A Legal Warning Shot For Luxon
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 9:48 am | Greenpeace
The Court has made it clear: states must take action to prevent climate harm, no matter where it occurs. They must uphold people’s fundamental right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment - for today’s communities and future generations. More >>
