Posts by Russel Norman
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UN Loss and Damage fund doomed without fossil fuel phase-out
As a new climate loss and damage fund is operationalised at the COP28 UN climate conference, Greenpeace condemns the New Zealand Government’s decision to bring back oil and gas exploration.
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A call for peace
Greenpeace Aotearoa staff and volunteers have carried this banner in one of the many demonstrations taking place around the country - calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Palestine.
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Climate lessons from six years of the New Zealand Government 2017-23
After six years we can definitively say that the Government’s failure to cut agribusiness climate pollution shows that seeking consensus with polluters does not work, but campaigning from the outside…
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Open letter to the global oil and gas industry
You are not welcome in Aotearoa and we will resist new oil and gas exploration.
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Greenpeace to Luxon: New oil and gas exploration can’t happen in a climate crisis
Greenpeace Aotearoa’s message to Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon is that starting new oil and gas exploration in the middle of a climate crisis is a crime against life on Earth
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Budget 2023: Taxpayers pay to cover the cost of Government subsidies to agribusiness climate pollution
With Budget 2023, we can see clearly the impact of the government’s decision to exclude agribusiness from the Emissions Trading Scheme, and to reject Climate Commission advice on strengthening the ETS.
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Predatory delay on climate action by Fonterra, Dairy NZ and Federated Farmers
The ETS, emissions pricing, agribusiness, and the politicians who taught an industry that it is far cheaper to invest in lobbying than emissions reductions.
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Greenpeace welcomes National’s renewable energy policy, but fossil fuel exploration and agriculture remain key concerns
Greenpeace is welcoming the National Party’s new renewable energy policy - ‘Electrify NZ’ - with its focus on increasing renewable electricity generation to replace coal, gas and petrol-fuelled transport.
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The Auckland Council Budget should invest in people and resilience
The Auckland region urgently needs to invest and expand this city’s transition for a safe climate future in a way that is just for all.
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Ecology and habitability
Russel Norman's address to the Environmental Defence Society Conference on 24 March 2023