All articles by Amanda Larsson
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GWP*: the tool that the meat and dairy industry is using to manipulate math on climate action – and how we can stop them
GWP*, no additional warming, and other clever accounting tricks are used by the dairy industry to get out of climate action - but what do they mean?
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Explosive LNG report casts more doubt on Govt’s plan to build fossil gas import terminal
As the Luxon Government threatens to build a new LNG import terminal in New Zealand, an explosive new report casts further doubt on the wisdom of that plan.
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Greenpeace welcomes action on dairy emissions in Greens’ Alternative Emissions Reduction Plan
Greenpeace applauds the Greens for promising bold action on dairy sector climate pollution, but warns that He Ara Anamata must be a future coalition bottom line
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Govt’s methane review designed to disguise ideology as fact – Greenpeace
In response to the release of the Government’s methane review report today, Greenpeace is slamming the Luxon-led coalition for manipulating maths to shirk responsibility in the fight against climate change.
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COP29 ‘bandaid over a bullet wound’, polluters should expect resistance
Greenpeace Aotearoa has labelled the UN climate conference COP29 ‘a bandaid over a bullet wound’ as negotiations wrapped up on Sunday.
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New Zealand drops in global ranking on climate action
Greenpeace accuses the government of 'quiet quitting' on climate change as a new report reveals NZ has dropped in international climate action rankings.
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Time to address the cow in the room at COP29
As COP29, the UN climate conference, kicks off in Azerbaijan, Greenpeace says world leaders must hold agri-business to account for its climate pollution.
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Greenpeace Submission to the Methane Review Panel on the Review of Methane Science and Target
Given that nearly half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, the main source of which is methane from the livestock sector, it is imperative for methane emission reduction to occur in this sector in order for New Zealand to achieve its climate commitments under the Paris Agreement.
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Weaker freshwater rules would threaten rural people’s health
Greenpeace Aotearoa calls on Christopher Luxon to keep his hands off of freshwater protections as new resource management act changes announced
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Fertiliser pollution set to continue under Ballance’s call for more fossil gas
Greenpeace Aotearoa is denouncing Ballance Agri-nutrients’ call for more fossil gas production, maintaining that urea needs to be phased out altogether.