To address the climate crisis, we must eliminate the sources of climate pollution that drive global warming, the climate crisis and the deadly storms, deluges and flooding it brings.
In New Zealand, the industrial dairy sector is the biggest source of climate-heating gasses. Join our call on the government to take real action to cut climate pollution.
Food and farming: why it matters
Social media activism
Choose one of the tweets below, update the text as you like and tweet!
I’m calling on the @NZNationalParty government to protect us from the climate crisis and end the greenwash proposals from the intensive dairy industry that fail to meaningfully cut emissions.
https://greenpeace.nz/cutbigdairyemissions
NZ has #TooManyCows, and that’s putting the health of our climate, rivers and rural communities at risk. Intensive dairy is to NZ what coal is to Australia.
Let’s #HalveTheHerd and usher in the regenerative farming revolution! https://greenpeace.nz/halve-the-herd-Petition
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More actions you can take
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PETITION: Support a shift to regenerative farming
Call on Christopher Luxon to set up a billion dollar fund to transition New Zealand away from industrial to regenerative agriculture.
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PETITION: Halve the dairy herd
Call on the Government to halve the dairy herd to reduce the impacts on freshwater, biodiversity, climate and people’s health.
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BRIEFING: Stop the First Domino – Annex 1 Countries, the Methane Threat to 1.5C and “No Additional Warming”
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Fonterra milking us dry and selling us out
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