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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 >>
Greenpeace Confronts Fonterra AGM Attendees With Rainforest Destruction, Dying Orangutans
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 11:42 am | Greenpeace
At the end of September, Greenpeace launched a petition calling on Fonterra to drop palm kernel, which has already attracted more than 10,000 signatures. More >>
Seabed Miners Lose Attempt To Limit Greenpeace Protest At Sea
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 3:02 pm | Greenpeace
After unsuccessful attempts to lobby governments to limit protests against deep sea mining vessels at the International Seabed Authority earlier this year, NORI pursued an appeal at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal to try and secure immunity against any ... More >>
The Cost Of Trawling: 3,000 kg Dead Coral In One Year
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 3:07 pm | Greenpeace
The New Zealand trawl fleet pulled up and killed at least 2,676 kg of coral and sponges, the building blocks of ocean life, over a one-year period, according to the most up-to-date figures. More >>
Time To Address The Cow In The Room At COP29
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 10:07 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Amanda Larsson says, "The livestock industry is a major driver of climate pollution, but has largely flown under the radar at previous UN climate conferences. This year, world leaders must finally address the giant cow ... More >>
New Anchor Butter Owner Must Go Palm Kernel-free - Greenpeace
Monday, 11 November 2024, 7:25 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace launched legal proceedings against Fonterra earlier this year, challenging claims on its Anchor Butter packaging that the product is 100% New Zealand Grass-Fed. Greenpeace has also called on Fonterra to end the use of palm kernel across all its ... More >>
Coral Pulled Up By NZ Trawler "Environmental Vandalism" Says Greenpeace
Friday, 1 November 2024, 9:02 am | Greenpeace
The coral ‘encounter’ happened on Lord Howe Rise, a region renowned for diverse marine life including corals, sponges, whales and seabirds, triggering an international fishing rule that will see the area temporarily closed to trawling and countries ... More >>
New UN Climate Report Highlights Climate Extremism Of Luxon Government
Friday, 25 October 2024, 9:46 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Dr Russel Norman says, "Here we have yet another stark warning that if we are to leave our children a habitable planet, emissions have to come down rapidly and a reminder that in this global crisis, every country ... More >>
Seabed Mining Sinks Offshore Wind Industry
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 3:12 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace seabed campaigner Juressa Lee (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Rarotonga) says: "The offshore wind industry warned the government that seabed mining was fundamentally incompatible with offshore wind farms, but they went ahead anyway, and now we all ... More >>
Luxon Rolling In The Mud With Fed Farmers Lobbyists
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 9:55 am | Greenpeace
More than twenty thousand people have signed a Greenpeace petition calling on the Government to leave the current freshwater protections in place, and Greenpeace says more resistance will come. More >>
Luxon Strips Local Governments' Power To Protect Fresh Water
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 3:23 pm | Greenpeace
The Government has signalled that it will introduce an amendment to the Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Bill to prevent local councils from notifying their freshwater plans until the Government replaces the National ... More >>
Greenpeace Raises Alarm Over Looming Public Health Crisis In Canterbury
Monday, 21 October 2024, 9:23 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace freshwater spokesperson Will Appelbe says, "Everyone should be able to safely drink the water coming out of their kitchen tap, without fear of getting sick. More >>
Fast Track Bill Even Worse After Select Committee - Confirms Luxon Is Engaged In A War On Nature Says Greenpeace
Friday, 18 October 2024, 5:06 pm | Greenpeace
"The changes to the Fast Track Bill announced today will do nothing to deter the uprising of public protest that this grievously bad bill has sparked," says Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman. More >>
Federated Farmers "throwing Their Toys Out Of The Cot" Over Freshwater Protections - Greenpeace
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 1:23 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Will Appelbe says, "Freshwater in Aotearoa has been in decline for decades, and Fish & Game Southland has acted in the interest of all New Zealanders by challenging Environment Southland’s anti-nature legislation. More >>
Public Meeting Organised To Protect Canterbury Water From Fast-Track Pollution
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 8:51 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace’s Canterbury-based freshwater campaigner, Will Appelbe, says, "Everyone should be able to take a dip in their local river or drink the water coming out of their tap without getting sick. But for many rural communities, particularly in Canterbury, ... More >>
Greenpeace Comment On The International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2024
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 9:10 pm | Greenpeace
The IEA report affirms that global demand for oil, gas, and coal is on track to peak by the end of this decade and warns that failure to accelerate the end of fossil fuels now will put the world on course for a catastrophic global average temperature ... More >>
Greenpeace Condemns Rapid Removal Of Freshwater Protections By Government
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 10:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
"By stripping away freshwater protections, the Government will undermine these key values that New Zealanders hold dear. Christopher Luxon’s coalition Government is positioning itself as anti-environment by putting commercial interests over the ... More >>
