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I volunteer with Greenpeace Aotearoa because they are directly confronting problems
My name is Jenn Shulzitski, and I live near Blueskin Bay just north of Ōtepoti/Dunedin. Since I was a little girl, the wilderness has been my happy place, my play…
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Antarctica shows everything is possible when we work together – now we need leaders to make history again
30 years ago today, something remarkable happened. Governments around the world agreed to make the Antarctic off-limits to oil drilling and mining.
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Facing off against false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis
Years ago, I wondered why the plastic pollution problem seemed to grow exponentially at the same time as recycling became more and more mainstream, more widely accepted and adopted. In…
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Latest emissions data shows benefits of fewer cows
Greenpeace is today pointing to new emissions data as clear evidence that lowering cow stocking rates works to cut climate pollution.
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Supreme Court slams door on seabed mining, time for a ban
Today the Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed Trans Tasman Resources’ (TTR) appeal of a 2018 High Court ruling which quashed the EPA’s decision in 2017 to give the Australian-led miners…
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The story behind an Italian single-use plastic bottle
I recently had the chance to visit the Adriatic coast as part of a ship tour Greenpace Italy organises every year with our partners at the Exodus Foundation, researchers at CNR-IAS and…
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Submission on SH1 Fast-Track Application by Greenpeace Aotearoa and Generation Zero
This is a joint submission by Greenpeace Aotearoa, Inc. and Generation Zero on the application by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and Transpower New Zealand Limited for Stage 1B1 of…
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The Climate Emergency Unpacked – How Consumer Goods Companies are Fueling Big Oil’s Plastic Expansion
As the climate crisis intensifies, there is growing worldwide acceptance of the need to slash greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the burning of fossil fuels to limit global heating to…
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Climate Commission ignored climate benefits of cutting synthetic nitrogen
A hidden report uncovered by Greenpeace shows that the Climate Change Commission ignored its own internal advice that could cut agricultural climate emissions by a third or more.
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Five productive things to do in lockdown
The most recent lockdown period has been underway for a number of weeks now and once again the country is pulling together by staying apart. We hope you are enjoying…
