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Emissions Reduction Plan must cut big dairy pollution to be credible
Greenpeace Aotearoa says that to be credible, the Government’s upcoming Emissions Reduction Plan must cut climate pollution from intensive dairy – New Zealand’s biggest climate polluter.
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Limits to Growth: 50 years later
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Greenpeace, and this year the 50th anniversary of a book that set much of the ecological agenda for the five decades since: The Limits…
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Intensive winter grazing rule changes cave in to intensive dairy
Greenpeace says the Government’s updated intensive winter grazing rules cave in to intensive dairy and are a missed opportunity to improve environmental management and animal welfare. Greenpeace Aotearoa…
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Greenpeace legal submission on “greenwashed” Kapuni hydrogen project
Greenpeace has filed notice to be heard as an Interested Party on a legal appeal by Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui opposing a Kapuni fertiliser project given approval under the Ardern Government’s Covid-19 fast-track consenting legislation.
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Greenpeace joins legal action on greenwashed Kapuni hydrogen fertiliser project
Greenpeace has filed notice to be heard as an Interested Party on a legal appeal by Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui opposing a Kapuni fertiliser project given approval under the Ardern…
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There are too many cows. Halve the herd.
Since the start of the dairy boom in the 1990s, cow numbers in New Zealand have doubled. Read this op-ed to find out more
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Why is the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 so important for biodiversity?
Biodiversity, or “biological diversity”, is a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on our planet. Biodiversity is crucial to life on our planet, where all life forms…
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The game changers on climate
Earlier this month leading climate scientists issued their landmark report on climate solutions, directly to world governments, saying it’s “now or never” if we are to meet the Paris Agreement 1.5°C warming
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Agriculture still tops emissions, so where’s the action?
Greenpeace says today’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory release from the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) underlines the case for halving the bloated dairy herd.
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New Zealand sabotaged critical climate action advice by IPCC
Records show that New Zealand officials argued against recommendations for a shift to plant-based diets in the crucial ‘Summary for Policymakers’ version of IPCC Working Group’s latest climate change mitigation report to world governments.
