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 7]
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 >>
MfE Report Shows Widespread Water Contamination Caused By Intensive Dairy
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 10:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A new MfE report released today on the state of New Zealand’s freshwater, called Our Freshwater 2023, highlights the widespread impacts of intensive dairying on the environment and people’s health, and should spur the Government to act, says Greenpeace ... More >>
Event To Show Public Opposition To Hauraki Gulf Bottom Trawling
Tuesday, 11 April 2023, 7:01 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A public event calling for an end to bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf will be held this Saturday 15th, April at Auckland’s Mission Bay, culminating in a massive floating ‘ban bottom trawling’ banner being deployed and met by a flotilla of ... More >>
Greenpeace Returns To Southland And Ashburton In April For Free Nitrate Water Testing
Thursday, 6 April 2023, 5:06 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace will offer free drop-in nitrate water testing to the public at events in Lumsden, Gore and Ashburton in April. "The purpose of the free water testing is to provide essential information to rural people at risk of nitrate contamination," ... More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes National’s Renewable Energy Policy, But Fossil Fuel Exploration And Agriculture Remain Key Concerns
Friday, 31 March 2023, 10:08 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the National Party’s new renewable energy policy - ‘Electrify NZ’ - with its focus on increasing renewable electricity generation to replace coal, gas and petrol-fuelled transport. But the organisation is calling on National ... More >>
NZ support for climate justice at UN must translate to action at home
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 6:32 am | Greenpeace
An international pathway has now been established to require governments to consider the human rights impacts of their climate policies and take more ambitious action under existing international agreements. This is thanks to a Vanuatu-led resolution ... More >>
With Nash Gone, Vital Ocean And Fisheries Decisions Must Not Fall Between Cracks, Says Greenpeace
Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 6:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
At a crucial moment for ocean protection, Greenpeace is urging the Government to ensure the Oceans and Fisheries portfolio is left in capable hands, to avoid any further delays in protecting the struggling marine environment. Stuart Nash was dismissed ... More >>
Action At Sea Against Deep Sea Mining
Monday, 27 March 2023, 11:56 am | Greenpeace
Eastern Pacific Ocean, 26th March 2023 - As critical negotiations at the controversial International Seabed Authority (ISA) meeting in Jamaica continue, the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise with three New Zealanders on board has intercepted a deep sea ... More >>
Greenpeace And Indigenous Activists Challenge Deep Sea Mining Expedition In The Pacific Ocean
Monday, 27 March 2023, 5:54 am | Greenpeace
With a banner reading "Don’t mine the Moana", and flying a Tino Rangatiratanga flag, a Māori activist from Northland joined two Greenpeace activists in the Eastern Pacific to confront the deep sea mining research vessel, James Cook today off the ... More >>
International Report Shines A Spotlight On Fonterra’s Greenwash
Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 8:19 pm | Greenpeace
A new international report called ‘ Feeding Us Greenwash: An analysis of misleading claims in the food sector’ outlines over 50 examples of greenwashing from across the global food sector - with a specific emphasis on meat and dairy and New Zealand ... More >>
Indigenous Peoples From 34 Nations Call For Total Ban On Deep Sea Mining
Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 5:55 am | Greenpeace
Indigenous activists have made clear that they don’t give their consent to deep sea mining. In a petition presented today to the ISA, over 1,000 signatories from 34 countries and 56 Indigenous groups called for a total ban on this destructive ... More >>
Industry Lobbying Influence A Major Brake On Government Action - Greenpeace
Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 12:29 pm | Greenpeace
In the wake of revelations that Chris Hipkins' chief of staff, Andrew Kirton, lobbied against the Container Return Scheme on behalf of the liquor industry shortly before the scheme was scrapped by the Prime Minister, Greenpeace is calling for the scheme ... More >>
IPCC Report A Wake-up Call For Hipkins As Climate Election Approaches
Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 6:32 am | Greenpeace
Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, released its ‘synthesis report’, summarising six previous reports. Greenpeace says that the latest report confirms the industrial drivers of climate change, its dire planetary impacts, and ... More >>
IPCC To Release Full 6th Assessment Report: Background And Greenpeace Quote
Saturday, 18 March 2023, 5:57 am | Greenpeace
Approval of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Synthesis Report on 13-17 March in Interlaken, Switzerland, with a launch on 20 March. March 17 2023 - Completing the work of its sixth assessment cycle that ... More >>
Governments Must Not Undermine Historic Global Ocean Treaty By Giving Greenlight To Deep Sea Mining
Friday, 17 March 2023, 9:09 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A delegation of Pacific activists has arrived in Jamaica ahead of this week’s International Seabed Authority (ISA) conference to ensure Pacific and indigenous participation. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2303/7be56cfcb17b20d5ed5a.jpeg" ... More >>
Fonterra Gets "flooded" By Climate Activists On Profit Reporting Day
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 12:16 pm | Greenpeace
As Fonterra reported that its interim profits are up by 50%, two Greenpeace climate activists have been arrested in a protest which turned Fonterra’s Corporate HQ into a virtual flood zone . <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2303/57aa22f42d483f5a4fff.jpeg" ... More >>
Dramatic Scenes As Fonterra HQ Hit With Climate Protest
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 9:14 am | Greenpeace
There are dramatic scenes unfolding at Fonterra’s corporate HQ in Auckland this morning as employees are arriving at work to find the dairy giant’s head offices have been turned into a flood zone. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2303/648067abd000e6e176f1.jpeg" ... More >>
Scrapping Container Return Scheme A Grave Error - Greenpeace
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 7:39 pm | Greenpeace
The Prime Minister yesterday announced that a slew of climate and environment policies will be binned or deferred, redirecting focus to cyclone recovery and cost of living issues but Greenpeace is calling it a grave error. "The Prime Minister has made ... More >>
Greenpeace Slams Hipkins U-turn On Climate And Roading
Tuesday, 7 March 2023, 12:17 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says the decision by Prime Minister Chris Hipkins to reprioritise future transport budgets, away from walking, cycling and public transport, in order to pay for Cyclone Gabrielle road reconstruction, is short-sighted in the time of the climate ... More >>
