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Kiwi brands receive Greenpeace award for tuna sustainability
Friday, 8 June 2012, 2:30 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 8 June 2012 – Greenpeace has marked World Oceans Day (1) by presenting its first-ever tuna sustainability awards to two New Zealand brands. More >>
Major cleantech report points to the future
Wednesday, 6 June 2012, 5:44 pm | Greenpeace
Two days of hearings in the judicial review of the Government’s decision to award the Brazilian oil major Petrobras a permit to drill in the deep waters off the East Cape have concluded in Wellington. More >>
Deep Sea Oil: Greenpeace/Te Whanau A Apanui Legal Challenge
Thursday, 31 May 2012, 2:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 31/5/12: A judge will hear legal arguments as part of a judicial review of the legality of a permit awarded to the oil company Petrobras to drill in deep water off the East Cape, in the Wellington High Court on June 5 and 6. More >>
Greenpeace: Budget fails New Zealand, and the climate
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 3:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Today’s budget confirms that this Government has no economic vision, and is wilfully ignoring the huge opportunities there are in embracing clean economic growth. How can a Budget in today’s global climate not deliver or offer any means to transition ... More >>
Budget fails New Zealand and the climate
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 3:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
“Today’s budget confirms that this Government has no economic vision, and is wilfully ignoring the huge opportunities there are in embracing clean economic growth. How can a Budget in today’s global climate not deliver or offer any means to transition ... More >>
Budget Set to Ignore Global Clean Energy Revolution
Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 1:03 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace New Zealand is urging the Government here to follow the UK Government’s lead in stimulating green growth, ahead of Thursday’s budget. More >>
Greenpeace activists remanded for another two weeks
Wednesday, 18 April 2012, 3:51 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The eight Greenpeace activists arrested during their occupation of a Shell-chartered drillship were today remanded for a further two weeks, till May 3rd, pending ongoing negotiations over the charges they will face. More >>
Rena’s Ghost Birds To Appear In Main Centres
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 1:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 10/4/12: This month a collection of original prints made from a little blue penguin and a diving petrel killed by the Rena disaster will go on a three-centre tour, going on public display in venues in Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington. More >>
Stocks of Pacific tuna on course for collapse
Sunday, 1 April 2012, 11:43 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Stocks of Pacific tuna are on course for collapse following the failure of international talks to agree on vital conservation measures, says Greenpeace. More >>
Pacific tuna fisheries meeting should deliver sustainability
Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 3:41 pm | Greenpeace
Guam, 27 March 2012 – A report showing there is an increasing global demand for responsibly sourced tuna was released by Greenpeace yesterday at the start of an international meeting in Guam to decide on the future of Pacific tuna. More >>
EU fisheries ministers tinker around the edges of reform
Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 4:15 pm | Greenpeace
European fisheries ministers meeting in Brussels to discuss the reform of EU fishing rules are expected to ignore the critical imbalance between the bloated size of EU fleets and dwindling stocks, said Greenpeace. More >>
Action on Shell Icebreaker in Finland
Sunday, 18 March 2012, 12:24 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Nordic activists have today scaled and boarded two Shell-contracted icebreakers in Helsinki, occupying the vessels as they prepared to sail for the Alaskan Arctic to support Shell’s Arctic oil drilling there. More >>
Sealord ignoring global shift to greener tuna fishing
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 12:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sealord is ignoring a global trend by canned tuna retailers taking steps to protect tuna stocks from overfishing, says Greenpeace. On Monday Italy’s leading canned tuna brand, Mareblu, joined a growing list of retailers which will no longer sell ... More >>
Lessons From Fukushima: Disaster Report
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 4:23 pm | Greenpeace
Tokyo, February 28, 2012 - Greenpeace today released “Lessons from Fukushima”, a new report which shows that it was not a natural disaster which led to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Japan’s east coast, but the failures ... More >>
US retailer says no to Ross Sea seafood
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 2:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
A third US retailer has announced it will not stock seafood from Antartica’s Ross Sea for environmental reasons, reports Greenpeace. More >>
Cottonsoft’s link to illegal rainforest destruction
Friday, 2 March 2012, 9:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
An Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) mill in Indonesia that produced paper used to make Cottonsoft-branded toilet paper sold here in New Zealand has been exposed by a Greenpeace investigation as having regularly milled ramin, a rainforest species protected by both international ... More >>
'Shadowlands' Photographs Highlight Human Cost Of Fukushima
Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 10:34 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, February 20, 2012 – Greenpeace today launched 'Shadowlands', a presentation of haunting photographs depicting the impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the plight of people displaced by the crisis, and a warning to others that a serious ... More >>
Lucy Lawless and co after release from police (Photos)
Monday, 27 February 2012, 8:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Lucy Lawless and co-accused after their release from New Plymouth police station following their occupation of an oil well drilling ship destined for the Alaska. More >>
Arrests End Shell Arctic Drillship Occupation
Monday, 27 February 2012, 3:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, February 27th 2012 — The occupation of an Arctic-bound Shell drillship by six Greenpeace activists including actor Lucy Lawless ended this morning after police climbed the ship’s drilling tower and arrested the group. The protest was ... More >>
Lucy Lawless Arrest Pictures
Monday, 27 February 2012, 1:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Lucy Lawless and other Greenpeace supporters were arrested on Monday ending their protest on an oil well drilling ship destined for the Alaskan Coastline. More >>
