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 6]
Greenpeace Applauds Move To Reduce Coal Use At Glenbrook Steel Mill
Monday, 22 May 2023, 8:55 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is applauding the government’s announcement that it will invest in a transition away from coal to electricity at Glenbrook Steel Mill. The move would mean 800,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions saved each year which is equivalent to one percent ... More >>
Nitrate Contamination History Taints Waimate’s Best-tasting Water Award
Saturday, 20 May 2023, 4:05 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says Glenavy residents of Waimate District might be galled at the local Council being awarded best drinking water awards when they recently spent weeks on emergency tank water due to nitrate contamination levels that left their supply undrinkable. ... More >>
Budget 2023 Is A Gamble With The Climate Crisis
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 2:35 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling out the Government for gambling with the climate crisis, saying that Budget 2023 puts corporate profit ahead of acting on climate change and the cost of living. Greenpeace climate campaigner, Christine Rose, says "to find ... More >>
Delaying Cameras On Boats Will Mean More Ocean Destruction, Says Greenpeace
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 11:22 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Further news that commercial fishing boats are operating without onboard observers shows just how critical it is to get cameras on boats immediately, says Greenpeace. This week it was reported that the number of observers on inshore boats had fallen ... More >>
Budget 2023 Must Balance The Books On Climate
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 2:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Aotearoa says that Budget 2023 must balance the books on the climate, and is calling on the Government to ensure that the response to this year’s devastating climate disasters is coupled with funding for urgent climate action. Greenpeace campaigner ... More >>
UN Plastic Pollution Report Will Result In 100 Million Tons Of Plastic Pollution Every Year
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 12:20 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa has slammed a report from the United Nations Environment Program today on how to address the plastic pollution crisis, saying it will allow millions more tons of plastic pollution to end up in the environment each year. The UNEP report, ... More >>
Labour Makes Excuses In Seabed Mining Debate - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Thursday, 11 May 2023, 8:39 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is disappointed that the Labour Government chose not to support the Seabed Mining Prohibition Amendment Bill and says the delay puts precious sea creatures at risk. . The members’ bill, introduced by Debbie Ngarewa-Packer of ... More >>
Ocean Groups Slam Fishing Industry Transformation Plan As ‘status Quo Plus Subsidies’
Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 5:58 pm | Greenpeace
Environmental and recreational fishing groups have slammed the government’s draft Fisheries Industry Transformation Plan at a public meeting today, saying the plan does nothing to tackle the threat of destructive bottom trawling. The draft plan, ... More >>
Time To Throw He Waka Eke Noa On The Policy Bonfire
Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 12:20 pm | Greenpeace
As Aucklanders weather yet another severe storm and brace themselves for more slips and flooding, Greenpeace Aotearoa says it’s time for urgent action to reduce the agricultural emissions that drive the climate crisis. Greenpeace is calling on the ... More >>
Labour Misses Golden Opportunity To Stop Seabed Mining
Friday, 5 May 2023, 7:11 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa has slammed the Labour Government’s failure to support Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s Seabed Mining Prohibition Amendment Bill, and instead opt for a select committee inquiry into seabed mining. The bill ... More >>
Coca-Cola’s Latest Greenwashing An Attempt At Disguising Its Biggest Polluter Status
Monday, 1 May 2023, 7:31 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling out the "blatant greenwashing" by Coca-Cola after the world’s biggest plastic polluter announced it will replace its green bottles with clear plastic. The company revealed its plans today, saying clear bottles ... More >>
Fisheries Industry Transformation Plan Full Of Holes
Monday, 1 May 2023, 9:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is scathing in its response to the new Fisheries Industry Transformation plan’s recommendations for bottom trawling , which the organisation says amounts to little more than fanciful thinking, offering false hope that some future technology ... More >>
14 Greenpeace Belgium Activists Have Been Detained For Over 24 Hours
Monday, 1 May 2023, 5:56 am | Greenpeace
30 April, Brussels - 14 Greenpeace Belgium activists who were arrested yesterday during an action at the Fluxys gas terminal in Zeebrugge are still being held. Since being detained, they have already had to spend a night in prison. Greenpeace Belgium ... More >>
Greenpeace occupies Fluxys LNG terminal in Zeebrugge to protest gas operators’ disregard of global climate goals
Sunday, 30 April 2023, 5:06 am | Greenpeace
Zeebrugge, 29 April 2023 - This morning 10 climbers and 12 kayaktivists from Greenpeace Belgium occupied Fluxys terminal in Zeebrugge to denounce Fluxys’ role, among European gas operators, in the recent development of US LNG imports to Europe, in total disregard ... More >>
Kaipara Council’s Waste To Energy Investigation Is Not The Solution - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Friday, 28 April 2023, 3:22 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is warning that Kaipara District Council’s decision to investigate waste to energy options could lock them into a disastrous deal that will be costly to ratepayers and have negative impacts on people’s health and the climate. Kaipara ... More >>
Ashburton Nitrate Contamination Puts Local Communities At Risk
Monday, 24 April 2023, 10:21 am | Greenpeace
Unacceptably high levels of nitrate contamination in drinking water in Ashburton and the surrounding area are putting residents’ health at risk, says Greenpeace Aotearoa. The organisation returned to the region to offer free drop-in water testing ... More >>
Public Event Opposing Hauraki Gulf Trawling Going Ahead Sunday
Friday, 21 April 2023, 3:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
A public event calling for an end to bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf will go ahead at Auckland’s Mission Bay this Sunday April 23rd, culminating in a floating ‘ban bottom trawling’ banner being deployed and met by a flotilla of boats, kayaks ... More >>
Testing Finds Gore And Lumsden Drinking Water Near Nitrate Reproductive Risk Levels
Friday, 21 April 2023, 9:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Free nitrate water testing undertaken by Greenpeace Aotearoa in Southland this week has found high contamination levels in the water supplies of both Gore and Lumsden townships, as well as surrounding rural areas. Elevated nitrate levels in some water ... More >>
National’s Farm Policy Will Make Drinking Water Contamination And Climate Change Worse
Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 12:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is condemning the National Party’s new agriculture policy, saying that it will fail to address the climate crisis and health impacts caused by intensive dairying. "People across Aotearoa are already experiencing the effects of climate ... More >>
Stronger Action Needed To Ensure ETS Fit For Purpose
Friday, 14 April 2023, 11:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the Climate Change Commission’s latest recommendations on Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) settings, and says the advice should not only be accepted but should be binding and free from political interference. The Commission’s ... More >>
