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These 12 car companies are setting the world on fire
The car industry is very good at pretending that they care about the environment and your health and safety. Outside the IAA conference in Frankfurt, activists from Greenpeace Germany show…
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Bigger is not better – how SUVs are killing the climate
The car industry wants you to buy a big car. Even if you don’t buy a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), your options for a ‘small car’ are disappearing as cars…
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Why we’ve had enough of broken promises to protect forests
My home, Indonesia, has the world’s third-largest tropical forest with the most biodiversity on earth, but we are also one of the five largest carbon emitters in the world, mostly due…
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Govt proposes cap on synthetic fertiliser to help save rivers
Greenpeace is welcoming the release of new measures to protect waterways, but says more needs to be done. The proposals in the Government’s Action for Healthy Waterways document include restrictions on dairy conversions, further farming intensification and the amount of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser farmers can put on fields.
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Hydrogen Vision from Govt cautiously welcomed by Greenpeace with warning
Hydrogen made using clean, renewable electricity would play an important part in that transition. We’re encouraging the Government to support a large-scale roll out of more wind and solar energy across New Zealand.
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Global Ocean Treaty negotiations at the UN – Greenpeace response
New York – Over 190 countries came together at the United Nations to negotiate a historic Global Ocean Treaty that could help protect at least 30% of our seas by…
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How ocean protectors are beating corporate lobbyists at the UN
This week, governments are meeting at the UN in New York for crucial negotiations towards a Global Ocean Treaty, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. This treaty is the key…
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Government releases deficient petroleum strategy
The Government has today released a draft 10-year Minerals and Petroleum Resource Strategy which will be used to inform a review of the Crown Minerals Act 1991. Greenpeace climate and…
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Greenpeace captures images of fires in the Amazon
Greenpeace Brazil has captured images of the fires that have been ravaging the Amazon forest for the past three weeks in a flyover in the states of Rondônia and Pará.…
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Global forests on fire: G7 must lead accelerated climate action – Greenpeace
Amsterdam, Netherlands – In response to French President Macron’s move to put the Amazon rainforest fires onto the G7 Summit agenda this weekend, Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer Morgan made…
