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Greenpeace takes smart farming message to Fieldays
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 3:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Amidst the electric fence systems and EID Readers, visitors at this year’s Fieldays will find an old fashioned dairy offering free value-added dairy products and tips on how farmers can tackle and gain from climate change. The “Tried and True” ... More >>
And we all signed on…campaign reaches 50,000
Friday, 5 June 2009, 10:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Over 50,000 New Zealanders have joined the Greenpeace Sign On campaign, which aims to generate an unprecedented level of support for John Key to sign on to a 40 per cent by 2020 emission reduction target at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December. ... More >>
Govt to consult NZ’ders on climate target
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 9:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
With only five months to go until the crucial UN climate talks in Copenhagen, the New Zealand Government has announced another delay in setting an emissions reduction target. New Zealand Climate Change Ambassador Adrian Macey has just told delegates ... More >>
IT Industry Failing Climate Change challenge
Friday, 29 May 2009, 10:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 28 May 2009. The IT industry has massive potential to cut green house gas emissions but is currently failing to deliver, according to the first results of the Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge. (1) The IT industry has calculated it could make ... More >>
Greenpeace Photos: The Sign On Ambassadors
Saturday, 23 May 2009, 3:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The images below were released on announcement of the Greenpeace Sign On climate campaign. Each of those pictured is an ambassador for the campaign. More >>
Unlikely Bedfellows Unite Over Climate Change
Saturday, 23 May 2009, 2:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland Saturday May 23, 2009 - Lucy Lawless, Stephen Tindall, Cliff Curtis, Peter Gordon and Jim Salinger are among a group of high-profile New Zealanders joining with Greenpeace to call for strong climate action. More >>
NZ Must Support Push For Sustainable Fisheries
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 2:04 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
May 21, 2009, Auckland – Greenpeace today welcomed an agreement to propose that important areas of international waters in the Pacific Ocean (1) be placed off limits to all fishing by 2010. The proposal was agreed by the Ministers of Pacific Island ... More >>
Greenpeace Calls For High Seas Marine Reserves
Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 3:29 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today called on the Forum Fisheries Committee meeting (1) in Niue to support strong measures to clamp down on the pirate and overfishing that threatens Pacific tuna stocks and the economic security of the region. Greenpeace last week applauded ... More >>
Supermarket Claims Are Fishy Say Greenpeace
Friday, 8 May 2009, 9:44 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
May 7, 2009, Auckland - Claims today by New Zealand supermarkets that they are doing enough to ensure that the seafood they sell is from sustainably managed fisheries just don't stack up, says Greenpeace. More >>
Greenpeace Calls For Cancellation Of Olkiluoto 3
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 12:51 pm | Greenpeace
AMSTERDAM, INTERNATIONAL – 6 May 2008 – Greenpeace is calling for the construction permit for the Olkiluoto European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) in Finland - the world’s largest prototype nuclear reactor - to be cancelled, following revelations of severe ... More >>
Prime Minister Must Be Fishing In Some Other Ocean
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 5:06 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Government claims today that New Zealand's oceans are "teeming with fish" and that the quota management system (QMS) is working are rubbish, says Greenpeace (1). More >>
New Zealand Supermarkets And The Future Of Seafood
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 1:19 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
May 6, 2009, Auckland - Supermarkets risk a backlash from concerned customers if they don’t stop selling unsustainably-caught fish, Greenpeace is warning. More >>
NZ Government Falling Behind On Climate Change
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 9:27 am | Greenpeace
The New Zealand Government has been caught out by Australia’s proposal for stronger and faster greenhouse gas emission cuts. More >>
Minister for Creation of more Climate Change
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 12:48 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
John Key must reverse the decision to sacrifice conservation land and the climate for a coal mine, says Greenpeace. Minister for Conservation and Climate Change Negotiations Tim Groser has just announced the Government is sacrificing part of the Oteake Conservation ... More >>
Drought care of climate change - Carter
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 11:49 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming Agriculture Minister David Carter’s recognition that the drought affecting East Coast farmers is climate change-related (1). “As farmers have conceded, farms in Gisborne and Wairoa may eventually have to be abandoned. ... More >>
Government Helps Pioneer Climate Scam
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 3:53 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Government should not be congratulating itself on supporting one of the biggest climate change solution scams around, says Greenpeace. This follows an announcement that the New Zealand government is becoming a founding member of the Global Carbon ... More >>
Greenpeace Calls for End to Cover-ups
Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 12:35 pm | Greenpeace
Shimonoseki, Japan, April 14, 2009: Greenpeace today met the returning Japanese whaling fleet factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, with placards reading “Southern Ocean Whaling: Cover-ups, lies, 1.2 billion yen in taxes”. The environmental organisation also ... More >>
Leadership still missing in action for climate
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 10:23 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Bonn—8 April 2009--As the climate talks in Bonn limped to a close today, Greenpeace called for Heads of State to take personal responsibility for progressing negotiations, as only then will there be a possibility of getting a good deal at the Copenhagen ... More >>
Survival (*) Is Not Negotiable
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 9:35 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Bonn - 9 April 2009 – New Zealand should be ashamed of itself infront of its Pacific Island neighbours, Greenpeace said today, as UN climate talks wrap up in Bonn, Germany. “New Zealand should be ashamed that it shied away from committing to climate action ... More >>
NZ rearranges deckchairs while ice shelf collapses
Monday, 6 April 2009, 9:59 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
As the Wilkins ice Shelf draws closer to collapse in Antarctica (1), the New Zealand Government continues to contribute absolutely nothing towards progress on a climate deal in Bonn. More >>
