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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
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Tiwai deal must come with strings attached
Greenpeace is disappointed that Jacinda Ardern is buckling under pressure from Rio Tinto to provide cheap power for its Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter. The environmental organisation says the deal needs to come with strings attached.
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The world failed on all of its biodiversity targets. What happens next?
Last week, all governments found out how they scored against the targets they set themselves a decade ago to protect nature. It was pretty bad.
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The most northerly youth strike ever!
I’m here in the Arctic to bear witness to the sea ice minimum, the moment in which the Arctic sea ice shrinks to its smallest size each year before expanding out again, and a key indicator of the health of the Arctic. This year it was the second smallest ever, following the pattern of recent…
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National promises dirty rivers and more fuel for climate fires
Greenpeace is calling the National Party’s newly announced agriculture policy “tantamount to climate denial” and “a promise for more dirty rivers.”
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Get plastic waste out of our lives
Organisations focused on zero waste and the circular economy have joined forces to support the government’s proposed ban on a range of single-use and hard-to-recycle plastic products, and are encouraging New Zealanders who care about waste issues to do the same.
