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How Jacinda Ardern’s Coronavirus stimulus package could change everything
Right now, the New Zealand Government is poised to announce a sweeping stimulus package to deal with the economic impacts of Covid-19. Done right, it could...
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Slime time! Action for our rivers
[share buttons] Remember watching that Saturday morning kids’ TV, ‘What Now?’ and seeing people get gunged with cold, sticky slime? All too often, what should be a refreshing dip in…
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Greenpeace gunges fertiliser company
Management at Ravensdown fertiliser company in Christchurch are arriving at work this morning to discover they’ve been slimed. The main entranceway to the head office in Christchurch, the car park,…
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NZ’s rising climate emissions and Jacinda Ardern’s big chance to cut them
When it signed onto the Paris Climate Agreement, New Zealand pledged to increase its net greenhouse gas emissions by 10% by 2030, compared to 2005. The latest NZ Government report…
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Greenpeace puts Jacinda in a dirty Canterbury river
Hoardings are going up today in one of the country’s dirtiest rivers – to remind the Prime Minister of the promises she made about New Zealand waterways. Three billboards –…
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Shane Jones meats his match
You know how sometimes someone says something so outrageous, so out-of-proportion with what’s actually going on, that you just have to respond? That’s how we felt seeing NZ First MP…
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Dangerous nitrous oxide emissions rising fast – New study
An international team of scientists have just found that nitrous oxide emissions are rising much faster than had been previously thought. Nitrous oxide is a long-lived and potent greenhouse gas,…
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Pact between farming lobby groups and Government is the opposite of climate action
Picture this. Jacinda Ardern standing in the middle of Queen St on the bonnet of a tractor with her middle finger raised as ten of thousands of climate strikers stream…
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Greenpeace brands Government sellouts over ETS backdown
Greenpeace is calling the Government’s surprise backdown on its commitment to put farming into the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) a major sell-out. The Prime Minister is expected to announce that…
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NZIER says no economic threat from new freshwater rules
New Zealand’s new fresh water regulation rules will have no major impacts on the national economy, according to an independent report just out. The report by independent economic consultancy New…