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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 >>
NZ embarrasses at climate
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 5:03 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 1 April 2009 - The New Zealand delegation at UN climate talks in Bonn is embarrassing the country by outing us as laggards, says Greenpeace. “One official delegate I spoke to after New Zealand’s opening presentation to the 180 countries ... More >>
PC companies do bit for climate change
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 4:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The latest edition of Greenpeace's 'Guide to Greener Electronics' ranking (1) shows a disappointing slump from some major companies in the toxics category, but an overall improvement on climate change criteria. More >>
Greenpeace increases call for emission cuts
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 10:05 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 25 March 2009 — New Zealand must make deeper and faster cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought, Greenpeace warned today, ahead of the first of the year’s global climate talks which begin in Bonn (1) over the weekend. The ... More >>
EU leaders fail to put cash on the table
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 3:50 pm | Greenpeace
EU leaders agree to repay carbon debt but fail to put cash on the table More >>
New research shows need for urgent climate action
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 10:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland March 19 2009 – Greenpeace says new research involving New Zealand scientists and published today in Nature magazine, must surely convince our government of the urgent need to tackle climate change. More >>
Finance Ministers Avoid Climate Funding Decision
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 2:09 pm | Greenpeace
Brussels, 10 March 2009 – EU finance ministers, whose meeting was blockaded by hundreds of Greenpeace activists in Brussels earlier this morning, have failed to agree on funding to tackle climate change in developing countries. More >>
Key’s comments undermine Select Committee
Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 4:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, New Zealand — Greenpeace has declined to appear before the Government’s climate change committee, saying John Key’s comments in the latest Investigate magazine show the process is a farce. More >>
Rudd and Key -“Where the bloody hell are ya?”
Sunday, 1 March 2009, 5:40 pm | Greenpeace
Sydney Sunday March 1 – Kevin Rudd and John Key must talk about solving climate change as part of the solution to the economic crisis, Greenpeace said today. More >>
India’s First Steps on its Climate Plan
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 12:51 pm | Greenpeace
New Delhi, India, 25 February 2009 — Greenpeace today welcomed India’s first step on its National Action Plan on Climate Change, a market mechanism that will phase out incandescent bulbs, however called for clear targets and timelines on the ... More >>
Justice for Activists, Justice for Whales
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 4:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
19 February 2009, Auckland – Greenpeace has staged a whale stranding in Mission Bay, Auckland today, to highlight the start of a court case against two Japanese activists. More >>
