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Greenpeace Says Fast Track Law Will Continue To Be Resisted
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 8:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
"The Fast Track will destroy existing protections for freshwater, forests, oceans and wildlife. It ignores the concerns of local communities, and will allow zombie projects which have been previously rejected to come back to life." More >>
Court Rules Systemic Failings In Bycatch Reporting
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 11:19 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace oceans campaigner Juan Parada says the case demonstrates the serious issues with the FishServe model, a centre piece of ELI’s legal case, where the government and the Ministry of Primary Industries allow the fishing industry to self-regulate ... More >>
Greenpeace Slams Late Release Of Redacted Fast Track Seabed Mining Documents
Monday, 16 December 2024, 2:36 pm | Greenpeace
Over 20,000 people have signed an open letter pledging resistance to companies opting into the fast track, and a further 45,000 have signed a petition calling on the Government to ban seabed mining outright. More >>
Emissions Reduction Plan ‘Not Worth The Paper It’s Written On’ - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 9:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
"This Government has consistently allowed big polluters like the agribusiness industry and the fossil fuel industry to write the policy on climate change, and this abject failure of a plan is the result," says Deighton-O’Flynn. More >>
Explosive LNG Report Casts More Doubt On Govt’s Plan To Build Fossil Gas Import Terminal
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 8:07 am | Greenpeace
The ‘ Explosive Truths’ report commissioned by Greenpeace delves into the history of LNG accidents, highlighting a lack of transparency, underestimated risks to human safety, and failing safety protocols. More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes Action On Dairy Emissions In Greens’ Alternative Emissions Reduction Plan
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 6:19 pm | Greenpeace
"At a time when the Luxon-led government is caving to polluting industry lobbyists and undermining climate action across all fronts, it is refreshing to see an alternative pathway," says Greenpeace spokesperson Amanda Larsson. More >>
Climate Commission Methane Advice A Chance To Pull Climate Emergency Brake: Greenpeace
Friday, 6 December 2024, 2:20 pm | Greenpeace
The intensive dairy industry, led by Fonterra, is NZ’s worst climate polluter, belching out vast amounts of superheating methane gas, Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn says. More >>
Govt’s Methane Review Designed To Disguise Ideology As Fact - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 5:55 pm | Greenpeace
The methane review is designed to disguise political ideology as scientific fact. It was set up to bypass the independent scientific advice of the Climate Change Commission because that advice didn’t say what the Government - & the livestock industry lobbyists ... More >>
Norway Stops Seabed Mining, Putting More Pressure On NZ To Follow
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 4:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace spokesperson Juan Parada says, "This move by Norway to stop the seabed mining in its tracks is a historic win for ocean protection and for the growing movement opposed to the damaging new extractive industry, and puts the spotlight firmly on ... More >>
Waimate Drinking Water Disaster Highlights Need To End Dairy Pollution
Monday, 2 December 2024, 8:31 pm | Greenpeace
NZ has too many dairy cows, especially in Canterbury, and they’re polluting the water we drink. Ultimately, we need far fewer cows on farms, and to see Environment Canterbury enforcing a phase-out of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, Greenpeace spokesperson ... More >>
Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Fail To Deliver And The Fight Continues
Monday, 2 December 2024, 8:20 am | Greenpeace
"This week, over 100 Member States, representing billions of people, rejected a toothless deal that would have accomplished nothing and stood before the world committing to an ambitious treaty. Now, it’s time they stand by this promise and deliver. More >>
Greenpeace Demands Release Of Plastics Treaty Activists, As Global Talks Enter Final Stages
Sunday, 1 December 2024, 8:50 pm | Greenpeace
We urge the South Korean authorities to release the activists immediately. These activists are standing with thousands of Korean citizens and millions more around the world who are demanding a historic treaty in Busan. Their voices must be heard, ... More >>
Seabed Mining AGM Disrupted By Representatives Of Ngāti Ruanui And Greenpeace
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 1:37 pm | Greenpeace
Rukutai Watene of Ngāti Ruanui, along with Peeti Wharehoka-Watene and six Greenpeace activists, interrupted the meeting in Sydney, Australia by taking the floor to outline the reasons that he and his hapū oppose seabed mining in their rohe. More >>
Greenpeace Gives Christopher Luxon An F On Its First Year In Govt Waging A War On Nature
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 8:29 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has kept track of this in an article published on the organisation’s website, where the coalition government’s so-called War on Nature is documented in detail. More >>
Greenpeace Unfurls Giant Eye To Warn Leaders That The World Is Watching As Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations Begin
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 8:38 am | Greenpeace
The flag features faces from all over the world, including public figures like William Shatner, James Cromwell & João Pacífico. Together, these images represent a united call for a treaty that cuts plastic production, eliminates single-use plastics, and ... More >>
COP29 ‘Bandaid Over A Bullet Wound’, Polluters Should Expect Resistance - Greenpeace
Monday, 25 November 2024, 11:40 am | Greenpeace
We know how to cut emissions - we have all the technology and tools to do so. What’s needed is political will to put these tools into action. More >>
New Zealand Drops In Global Ranking On Climate Action
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 8:59 am | Greenpeace
If the government won’t hold polluters to account, then people will. People are increasingly taking to the streets and the courtrooms, putting their bodies on the line to shut down polluting industries. This will only escalate further unless New ... More >>
Rural School Drinking Water Threatened By Fast-Track - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 2:35 pm | Greenpeace
The Fast Track Bill will make drinking water quality worse across the country. Contamination of drinking water with toxic heavy metals often occurs as a result of gold mining - and fast-tracked gold mines are planned in both the Waikato and Otago regions. More >>
Greenpeace Calls On Fonterra Investors To Consider Big Picture With Giant Puzzle
Monday, 18 November 2024, 9:37 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling on investors to divest from Fonterra’s Shareholders Fund to push the dairy giant into ending palm kernel use on all of its farms. More >>
Drinking Water At 100 Rural Schools Contaminated With Cancer-causing Nitrate
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 2:11 pm | Greenpeace
"The source of this pollution is primarily the intensive dairy industry which contaminates lakes, rivers, and drinking water with cow urine and runoff from synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use," says Appelbe. More >>
