All articles by Russel Norman
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Greenpeace welcomes Māori Party’s bold climate policy
Greenpeace is applauding the Māori Party for its bold climate change policy, and encourages Co-Leader Debbie Ngārewa-Packer to make climate change a bottom line in any potential coalition negotiations.
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Rio Tinto departure makes decarbonisation projects ‘shovel ready’
Today’s Tiwai Point closure announcement will result in cheaper electricity for New Zealand households and the chance to swiftly decarbonise transport and industry, says Greenpeace.
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Aucklanders depend on the Waikato River for drinking water – let’s clean it up
As the drought has deepened, Auckland has become increasingly dependent on the polluted Waikato River for drinking water.
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Budget: Only loose change for the climate
Greenpeace is quietly applauding the Government’s conservation, freshwater, rail and small home insulation measures announced in today’s Budget. However ...
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Budget 2020: Get future-ready over shovel-ready
Greenpeace is urging the Government to prioritise ‘future-ready’ over ‘shovel-ready’ job solutions in this week’s Covid Recovery Budget.
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Climate change is harder to visualise than coronavirus, but no less dangerous
Covid-19 has so far caused more than 130,000 deaths worldwide. These are grim numbers from the World Health Organisation, the actual human suffering is impossible to measure. By comparison, the…
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Beating the Covid-19 Coronavirus, together
The coming days and weeks will be tough. But as New Zealanders, we’re pretty resilient. When things get tough, we pull together. We can do this.
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Something fishy in the Beehive between Talley’s and NZ First
It’s been revealed that tens of thousands of dollars in undeclared donations have been flowing from Talley’s fishing interests into the New Zealand First Foundation. This is huge. It’s been clear…
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NZ’s rising climate emissions and Jacinda Ardern’s big chance to cut them
When it signed onto the Paris Climate Agreement, New Zealand pledged to increase its net greenhouse gas emissions by 10% by 2030, compared to 2005. The latest NZ Government report…
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Adaptive ideas in the era of the Anthropocene
To survive the twin climate and ecological crisis, our ideas must evolve - we need to embrace ideas that allow us to adapt to the world as we collectively have made it, and we desperately need to jettison some maladaptive ideas that are locking us into a climate and biodiversity disaster.