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Floods, cyclones, thunderstorms: is climate change to blame for New Zealand’s summer of extreme weather?
The final months of New Zealand’s summer carried a massive sting, bringing “unprecedented” rainfalls several times over, from widespread flooding in Auckland at the end of January to ex-tropical Cyclone…
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The fossil fuel industry is inherently patriarchal and criminal
Today is International Women’s Day. Every year, fossil fuel companies exploit this day to advertise their career options for women, call out the gender gap in science and engineering, and…
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Why Fonterra was targeted by the climate strike
On Friday thousands of us around Aotearoa, and around the world, marched for climate action and climate justice.
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Greenpeace slams Hipkins U-turn on climate and roading
Greenpeace says the decision by Prime Minister Chris Hipkins to reprioritise future transport budgets, away from walking, cycling and public transport, in order to pay for Cyclone Gabrielle road reconstruction,…
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The parallel Climate Wars in Australia and New Zealand
We live in the era of the Climate Wars. On one side are the big polluting industries – oil, coal, gas, meat and dairy – fighting tooth and nail to…
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OMV exit gives Luxon chance to abandon oil exploration policy
On the eve of the global climate strike, New Zealand’s biggest oil and gas producer - Austrian OMV - has announced that it is looking to sell its New Zealand assets.
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The ten billion dollar lie at the heart of the New Zealand Government’s climate policy
The New Zealand Government has made a big promise on the international stage to cut New Zealand's emissions by a 147 million tonnes over the decade of the 2020s. But the truth is that
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The new climate denial: adaptation over mitigation
The night Cyclone Gabrielle hit my coastal village of Piha was, frankly, terrifying, as it was for so many around the motu. I measured more than 400mm in my back…
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Where’s the agriculture emissions plan?
As the country struggles to recover from climate-fuelled weather events like Cyclone Gabrielle, the Government has yet to come up with an effective plan to cut emissions from Aotearoa’s biggest…
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Global Climate Strike: Why I’ll be there
Over my lifetime emissions have only increased and my individual actions feel like a mere drop in the bucket.
