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"350 or we’re all sunk"
Sunday, 25 October 2009, 1:08 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland Saturday October 24 – Greenpeace New Zealand has welcomed the outpouring of support for the 350 International Day of Climate Action, and at the wreck of the Rainbow Warrior in Northland, has displayed a banner underwater reading "350 or we’re ... More >>
Keisha & Rhys push cut-price bangers - $500 raised
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 12:33 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
“Yes! We have cooked sausage!” So spoke the self-proclaimed BBQ King himself, as he raised the first cooked snarler aloft. Rhys Darby’s bangers were officially ready and the crowd that had gathered could finally sink its teeth into some organic ... More >>
Sizzling Sausages for Sign On on Darby's Barbie
Monday, 12 October 2009, 3:55 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sign On ambassadors Rhys Darby, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Lucy Lawless and Jim Salinger sizzle sausages to raise money for John Key to go to the December 2009 United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen More >>
Renewed Call To Ban Palm Based Animal Feed
Sunday, 11 October 2009, 10:46 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Plymouth, 11 October 2009 - Greenpeace has renewed its call for John Key and dairy giant Fonterra to stop the import of palm based animal feed because of its devastating climate impact, by painting a large slogan reading “Fonterra climate ... More >>
Key Challenged To Match Norway's Climate Target
Friday, 9 October 2009, 9:51 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland October 8 2009 – Norway's newly re-elected Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has just announced a 40% emission reductions target at the UN climate talks in Bangkok, upping the pressure on developed countries like New Zealand to do the same. More >>
Activists blockade major tar sands operation
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 12:51 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists from Canada, France, Germany and Brazil today occupied two conveyor belts used to transfer bitumen from an open pit mine to a processing plant owned by Canadian oil giant Suncor, demanding the closure of the tar sands (1). More >>
Encouraging news from HP and Apple
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 10:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
New ProBook 5310m Notebook, free of the worst toxic chemicals, sees HP’s penalty point lifted More >>
NZ may back out of emissions target
Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 9:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is warning that the New Zealand Government could back out of its 10%-20% emissions reduction target, after New Zealand’s climate change Ambassador Adrian Macey told a journalist attending the climate change talks in Bangkok that New Zealand ... More >>
NZ in Bangkok for UN climate talks
Monday, 28 September 2009, 11:16 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
WHAT: The second to last round of UN climate change negotiations before Copenhagen. (This week is Bangkok, then Barcelona (2-6 November) then Copenhagen (December 7-18)). It will be the first round of negotiations following New Zealand’s announcement ... More >>
Coal mining for dairy death blow for green NZ
Friday, 25 September 2009, 10:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Mining lignite to create fertiliser would send an appalling message to European consumers about New Zealand's agriculture sector, Greenpeace warned today. "New Zealand's agricultural products are sold on the myth of clean green production,” said Bunny McDiarmid, ... More >>
Govt admits palm kernel imports aid deforestation
Friday, 18 September 2009, 9:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
John Key’s Government today admitted that production of palm kernel animal feed is helping destroy Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests. In response to questions in Parliament about palm kernel imports, Deputy Prime Minister Bill English, speaking ... More >>
Greenpeace activists removed
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 9:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace activists removed by police from blockading a shipment of palm kernel animal feed at Tauranga port say their actions have highlighted Fonterra’s climate crime and are continuing their calls to John Key to force the multinational to stop ... More >>
Tauranga Police update on Greenpeace protest
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 4:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tauranga Police are continuing to work with Port officials and relevant authorities in relation to the boarding of a ship, the East Ambition, in Tauranga Harbour by Greenpeace. Tauranga Area Commander, Inspector Mike Clement, says police staff are ... More >>
Fonterra misleading NZ on palm kernel dairy feed
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 3:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is refuting Fonterra’s claims that the multi-national has no responsibility for the shipment of PKE currently offshore in Tauranga. Greenpeace activists boarded the ship this morning to draw attention to the climate impacts of palm kernel production. ... More >>
Greenpeace Block Palm Kernel Feed Shipment
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 11:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tauranga, 16 September 2009 - Greenpeace activists have blocked a shipment of palm kernel animal feed from Indonesia, entering Tauranga Port and destined for Fonterra dairy farms. They are calling on John Key to halt imports of the product due to its ... More >>
Pacific Activists Free Marine Life On High Seas
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 1:28 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Pacific Ocean, September 15, 2009 - Pacific activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, freed marine life and confiscated fishing gear from a Korean longliner, MFV Oryong 717, in international waters of the Pacific proposed as a future marine reserve. ... More >>
Revised ETS an insult to New Zealanders
Monday, 14 September 2009, 6:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland Monday 14 September - New Zealand’s revised emissions trading scheme is an insult to New Zealand’s environmental reputation and sends a clear international message that we’re not serious about tackling climate change, says Greenpeace. ... More >>
Revised ETS an insult to New Zealanders
Monday, 14 September 2009, 5:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Zealand’s revised emissions trading scheme is an insult to New Zealand’s environmental reputation and sends a clear international message that we’re not serious about tackling climate change, says Greenpeace. More >>
World bank proves Fonterra's claims a sham
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 11:50 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The World Bank has suspended funding to Fonterra’s palm kernel supplier, Wilmar International, due to environmental and humanitarian concerns. More >>
Wellington Statues Get Plastered For The Planet
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 11:40 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sign On volunteers have been out after dark raising the profile of the campaign by plastering iconic Wellington statues with blue casts - a reference to when John Key broke his arm at the beginning of the year. "When John Key broke his arm, many local ... More >>
