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State of Environment report reveals dairy is NZ’s dirtiest industry
The new State of the Environment report paints a “comprehensively damning” picture of the dairy industry. The cornerstone report out today says the industry is not only degrading biodiversity, rivers…
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What if we treated our oceans like they matter?
The seas provide half of our oxygen, and food for a billion people. Let’s give them the protection they deserve.
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“Biggest conservation effort yet” launches to save world’s oceans
Today, Greenpeace is launching one of its biggest conservation efforts yet, calling for a network of ocean sanctuaries to be created across the globe.
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Calls for sweeping new climate policy on first oil banniversary
On the first anniversary of New Zealand’s internationally acclaimed ban on new oil and gas permits, Greenpeace has called for sweeping new climate policy. The environmental organisation has launched a…
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Surging emissions show NZ needs stronger action on climate
New data released today showing that New Zealand’s emissions have continued to grow rapidly in 2017 have been called “disturbing” by Greenpeace. Executive Director, Russel Norman, says the just-released Greenhouse…
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West Coast dump disaster prompts calls for new bottle deposit scheme
The West Coast dump disaster and newly released information about dozens of landfills nationwide being susceptible to failure from sea level rise has prompted further calls from environment and zero…
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OMV’s drill plan reveal on NZ’s oil ban anniversary disgraceful
Oil giant OMV has today announced plans to drill for oil and gas in the Great South Basin off the Otago coast as soon as this year. This comes on…
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Groundbreaking study shows how to protect a third of our oceans by 2030
A scientific report released today has mapped out how to protect over a third of the world’s oceans in the next ten years.
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30 x 30: A Blueprint For Ocean Protection
30x30: A Blueprint for Ocean Protection, is a groundbreaking scientific study that maps out how to protect a third of the world’s oceans by 2030.
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Latest ETS changes impotent without inclusion of agriculture
The Government has announced another range of changes to one of the country’s core policies to combat climate change, the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).Agricultural emissions remain completely excluded from the ETS.