A report exploring New Zealand's phenomenal wind resource and options to drive renewable energy development.

The Carbon Logic Report shows the implications for fossil fuel use in the form of a 'carbon budget' over the next century if the global commuity is to prevent dangerous climate change. It is demonstrated that it is only possible to burn a small...

A blueprint to achieve 12% of the world's electricity from wind power by 2020

Wind map of New Zealandshowing mean wind speed (m/s) and mean wind density (W/m2) produce from the meteorological model TAPM for the surface (10m) and (50m) for the years 2001 – 2002 (NIWA, 2003).

Climate change is the most serious environmental problem facing the planet. It is happening now and the effects are being felt in New Zealand. Climate change impacts include changes to rainfall patterns, more extreme weather events like flooding...

For more than a century, people have relied on fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas for their transport, heating and electricity generation. Now worldwide people and the environment are experiencing the consequences. Global warming is the most...

The cryosphere comprises all the frozen water and soil on the surface of the Earth. The book from Cambridge University Press, "Mass Balance of the Cryosphere", to be published in January 2004, focuses on two key components of this sensitive...

Despised and romanticised, inspirer of poetry and politics for generations men and women have eked out a hard living hauling coal from beneath the ground to be burned in the furnaces of industry and peoples homes.

CAN Discussion Paper COP9, Milan, Italy - Includes CAN position paper on adequacy of commitments: Preventing dangerous climate change

Greenpeace NZ's submission opposing Might River Power's application to convert marsden B into a new coal fired power station.

What is clean coal? Coal is a highly polluting energy source. From mine to sky, it contaminates every step of the way. From acid drainage from coal mines polluting rivers and streams, to the release of cancer-causing dioxins and other toxins when...

Mighty River Power, a Government owned power company, has applied to build New Zealand’s first major coal fired power station in over 25 years. If built, it would be only the second station of its kind in the country (the first is Huntly, in the...

Victory! The Marsden B coal fired power station proposal has been scrapped...read more

Coal is the dirtiest of all fuels. From mining to coal cleaning, from transportation to electricity generation to disposal, coal releases numerous toxic pollutants into the air, water and land. These disrupt ecosystems and endanger human health.

Evidence given by Greg Miller NZ on the applications by Mighty River Power Ltd for resource consents to repower Marsden B Power Station with coal in relation to the Resource Management Act 1991.

Greenpeace New Zealand made submissions on the proposal by Mighty River Power Ltd (MRP) to repower Marsden B power station using coal. These oral submissions are made in support of its original submission, and are also made on submitters who also...

Opening Submissions of Counsel for Greenpeace New Zealand on applications by Mighty River Power Ltd for Resource Consents to Repower Marsden B Power Station with Coal

Addendum to evidence given by Greg Miller on the applications by Mighty River Power Ltd for resource consents to repower Marsden B Power Station with coal in relation to the Resource Management Act 1991.

Evidence given by Shelley Anderson on the applications by Mighty River Power Ltd for resource consents to repower Marsden B Power Station with coal in relation to the Resource Management Act 1991.

Evidence given by Shelley Anderson on the applications by Mighty River Power Ltd for resource consents to repower Marsden B Power Station with coal in relation to the Resource Management Act 1991.

Evidence given by Professor Ralf Sims on the applications by Mighty River Power Ltd for resource consents to repower Marsden B Power Station with coal in relation to the Resource Management Act 1991.

Evidence given by Phyllis Fox on the applications by Mighty River Power Ltd for resource consents to repower Marsden B Power Station with coal in relation to the Resource Management Act 1991.

Evidence given by Vanessa Atkinson of Greenpeace NZ on the applications by Mighty River Power Ltd for resource consents to repower Marsden B Power Station with coal in relation to the Resource Management Act 1991.

Greenpeace notice of appeal on Marsden B to the Environment Court

Climate change is the most serious environmental problem facing the planet and the sector that will suffer the most is agriculture. Even now, effects are being felt in New Zealand and globally, but its only a taste of things to come. Impacts...

The global status of wind power, drivers for wind energy, the world's wind resources and grid integration. the environmental impacts of wind power, the global wind energy outlook scenario and energy policy...

The Greenpeace New Zealand submission to the Department of Conservation opposing Marsden B coal conveyer application.

Anyone who has struggled to stay upright in a strong Wellington or Taranaki gale is aware of the intrinsic power of the wind. Wind energy has been harnessed by people for centuries. From the familiar windmills of Europe to the world’s most...

There is now growing awareness on the imperatives for a global energy future which marks a distinct departure from past trends and patterns of energy production and use.

The question is no longer whether a particular company is exposed to Climate Risk, but by how much?

A series of recent cases signal the rise of climate change litigation around the world. Most of the cases have cropped up in the United States, due to perceived inaction by national political authorities over issues of global warming. A...

This report shows that investment in renewables pays off quite quickly due to massive savings in fuel costs. In fact, a 'business as usual' mix in the world global power generation sector would result in 10 times higher fuel costs, when compared...

Greenpeace New Zealand has used the humble banger to demonstrate the gulf between National and Labour party rhetoric over climate change and real action.

A guide to major political meetings of 2007 affecting governments' response to climate change. Covers: The Kyoto process and UNFCCC; Bali meeting; APEC; UN High Level meeting; and Bush's Big Emitters meeting.

The destruction of the world’s forests is one of the main causes of climate change, second only to the energy sector. Tropical forests contain up to 40 percent of the world's terrestrial carbon and play a powerful role in mitigating the growing...

What China is doing in response to climate change?

Lo Sze Ping speech to UN Thematic Plenary III – Technology "Innovating a climate-friendly world – the role of technology and its dissemination" New York, 24 September 2007

The UN's climate science advisory body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, for its "efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the...

The final meeting of the IPCC for 2007 as part of its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) will be in Valencia, Spain, November 12-17. This briefing summarises the outcome of the first three meetings of the AR4 and outlines the importance of the final,...

As the next international meeting on the Kyoto Protocol approaches (Bali, December 3-14, 2007), this briefing sets out Greenpeace's detailed demands on what Governments need to agree - in order to keep global temperatures below two degrees...

What does Greenpeace expect out of the Bali meeting? What will be the big issues on the table? Who are the main players? What about the big developing countries? Don’t they have to do more? So why won’t voluntary agreements work?

Man-made climate change is real and happening fast. Experts say it’s the single biggest threat civilisation has ever faced, and the first time a single issue has spanned people, species, countries and continents in this way. While the...

A price on greenhouse gas emissions is one of a suite of tactics needed to tackle climate change. It creates an incentive for people to act in ways that minimise their greenhouse gas emissions and to make climate-friendly investments.

Dear Mr Kelly Today, Greenpeace has replanted land at Tahorakuri Forest which Landcorp has converted from plantation forestry to industrial dairy, to start reversing the damage caused by Landcorp. In doing so we are demonstrating that the New...