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Drought weakens Amazon's ability to withstand climate change
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 12:07 pm | Greenpeace
Severe drought could turn the Amazon rainforest into a source of carbon emissions contributing to climate change, rather than a carbon sink absorbing emissions. More >>
Government must now decide on palm kernel
Sunday, 6 February 2011, 1:13 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sunday February 6, 2011, New Plymouth: Greenpeace says that yesterday’s action on board the MV Great Motion leaves the Government with no option but to decide on what its policy is on palm kernel, and that the only option is to put a stop to its ... More >>
Greenpeace action continues in Port Taranaki
Saturday, 5 February 2011, 6:44 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Four Greenpeace activists remain inside the cranes on the palm kernel bulk carrier MV Great Motion. One of the five Greenpeace activists who boarded the ship has been removed, and placed under arrest, after five and a half hours on the anchor chain. More >>
Energy Summit briefing - renewables key to growth
Friday, 4 February 2011, 11:25 am | Greenpeace
Renewable power and energy efficiency are at the heart of this week’s energy summit – forming a headline section in leaked draft conclusions, according to media reports. This reflects the increasing importance of renewables in power production, job creation ... More >>
Re-Opening of Whale Meat Embezzlement Investigation Urged
Friday, 28 January 2011, 1:27 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling for the official investigation into systematic embezzlement(1) within Japan’s whaling program to be re-opened following disciplinary action against whaling officials for accepting whale meat ‘gifts’ from Kyodo Senpaku, the company ... More >>
Briquette plant a crime of Global Significance
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 1:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Tuesday 25th January 2011: If Solid Energy’s newly announced briquette plant ever goes into production, it will be a crime of global significance, for which New Zealand’s biggest company, Fonterra, and the New Zealand Government, will be ... More >>
Clash between renewables, coal and nuclear set to grow
Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 11:09 am | Greenpeace
*Brussels, 18 January 2011 -*A Greenpeace report launched today demonstrates how Europe can switch to a smooth-running electricity grid powered almost entirely by green energy. It shows for the first time what an intelligent grid for Europe by ... More >>
US oil spill report a warning for NZ
Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 5:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to pay heed to President Obama’s commissioned report on the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill – and cancel all new offshore oil drilling tenders and permits. This comes as the official report into the disaster by The National ... More >>
US oil spill report a warning for NZ
Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 3:53 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to pay heed to President Obama’s commissioned report on the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill – and cancel all new offshore oil drilling tenders and permits. More >>
Greenpeace says legal bid alone not enough to stop whaling
Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 4:14 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 15 December 2010 – Greenpeace says Governments needs to look beyond a legal bid to stop Japan whaling in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully announced today that the New Zealand Government has decided ... More >>
Greenpeace says legal bid alone not enough to stop whaling
Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 4:10 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says Governments needs to look beyond a legal bid to stop Japan whaling in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully announced today that the New Zealand Government has decided not to file as a party to Australia's ... More >>
Cancel new offshore oil drilling tenders and permits
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 4:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to cancel all new offshore oil drilling tenders and permits that have been granted by Crown Minerals to new offshore oil exploration by international oil companies. More >>
EU Undergoing Major Reform of Fisheries Policy
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 9:41 am | Greenpeace
Today, Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a destructive fishing trawler outside the EU Council building. Inside, EU fisheries ministers are negotiating 2011 fishing quotas and are expected to once again set them significantly above levels ... More >>
Failure of Tuna Rescue Package Bad News for the Pacific
Monday, 13 December 2010, 11:00 am | Greenpeace
Auckland, 12 December 2010 – The world’s industrial fishing fleets will continue to plunder vital tuna resources from the Pacific following the rejection of a rescue package to halt the decline of tuna stocks, says Greenpeace.A number of measures ... More >>
Europeans Demand a Moratorium on Genetically Modified Crops
Monday, 13 December 2010, 9:28 am | Greenpeace
Today, Avaaz and Greenpeace delivered the first ever Citizens’ Initiative inspired by the Lisbon Treaty to Health Commissioner John Dalli. Since December 2009, the citizen’s right of initiative is enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty, allowing a million ... More >>
Government must act now to stop palm kernel imports
Sunday, 12 December 2010, 1:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 12 December 2010: Following the publication of the Sunday Star Times story “Russian roulette with palm kernel imports,” (1) Greenpeace is calling on the Government to put an immediate stop to Fonterra’s use of imported palm kernel feed. More >>
Greenpeace says report exposes Government hypocrisy
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 10:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 9 December 2010 - Greenpeace has welcomed the report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment which recommends that proposals to exploit lignite coal reserves in the South Island, by the Government’s coal mining company Solid ... More >>
Greenpeace Demands US Leadership in Protecting Pacific Tuna
Monday, 6 December 2010, 12:53 pm | Greenpeace
The group is urging the US to support the proposal by Pacific nations to close off the four pockets of international waters including the eastern high seas area to purse seine fishing as science shows the Pacific region’s tuna stocks are threatened ... More >>
Greenpeace Demands Bold Measures to Protect Pacific Tuna
Monday, 6 December 2010, 11:42 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is urging the US and fishing nations to agree to bold measures to protect Pacific tuna at a vital meeting in Honolulu this week. The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting starts tomorrow, just as science shows the Pacific ... More >>
The Inconvenient Truth of Canned Tuna
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 10:39 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, November 24, 2010. The first independent, public genetic tests by Greenpeace into the contents of tinned tuna brands has uncovered evidence of the tuna industry’s complete disregard for both consumers and the future sustainability of tuna stocks ... More >>
