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Jacinda Ardern’s ‘Nuclear-Free Moment’: Here’s three things that would make it a reality
New Zealanders have gone to the polls and decided to keep Jacinda Ardern at the helm for another three years. The Labour leader’s promise of kindness, hope and protecting nature…
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No more excuses for Government inaction on climate and nature
This morning New Zealanders are waking up to a fresh Government – one that has no good reason to put off action on nature and climate.
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MfE report shows Govt action needed to reduce agribusiness emissions
A new report released today by the Ministry for the Environment highlights how the climate crisis is already affecting Aotearoa, and underscores the need for urgent action on New Zealand’s biggest climate polluter, agribusiness
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The climate catastrophe and industrial dairying: our embarrassing aunty
Why is it that no-one can talk frankly about New Zealand’s dairy industry and the climate crisis? It seems to be out of bounds, like some embarrassing aunty at
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Bringing New Zealand’s cherished native dolphins back from the brink
Following a ream of new protection measures introduced by the Department of Conservation this year, things are looking up for New Zealand’s most endangered dolphins. The long-overdue measures to save them should serve as a lesson for protecting the rest of the oceans.
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New Govt must phase out synthetic fertiliser: study finds it is driving climate catastrophe
Friday, 9 October: A major new paper, just published in the prestigious science journal Nature, shows that the overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is pushing levels of nitrous oxide –…
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Brazil is up in flames—here’s why: industrial agriculture
It is no accident that there are fires all across Brazil, and it is no accident that the fires this year are worse than last. In fact, the fires in 2020 are the worst in the last decade.
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Greenpeace activists climb Fertiliser Association building to highlight industrial dairying’s role in climate crisis
Greenpeace activists have scaled the office building of the Fertiliser Association in Wellington, to highlight the role of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser in driving industrial dairying and furthering the climate crisis.
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Greenpeace welcomes Greens’ transport policy, calls for climate to be bottom line
Greenpeace has welcomed the Green Party’s transport policy announced today, but is seeking assurances that the Greens will make clean transport a bottom line in any potential coalition agreement.
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Swedish oil company Preem cancels oil expansion plans following mass protest
Swedish oil company Preem announced today it will cancel its plans to expand their oil refinery Preemraff. Preem raffs expansion has been the single biggest climate issue
