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Jacinda Ardern’s ‘Nuclear-Free Moment’: Here’s three things that would make it a reality
New Zealanders have gone to the polls and decided to keep Jacinda Ardern at the helm for another three years. The Labour leader’s promise of kindness, hope and protecting nature…
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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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Election 2020: What have political parties committed to do about climate change and the environment?
UPDATED 21 Sept - With just five weeks to go until Election Day, we take a look at what New Zealand’s political parties have committed to so far, when it comes to addressing climate change. This is not intended to tell you which party to vote for. We need all political parties to do better,…
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National Party would throw fuel on the fire as the world burns
Greenpeace is calling the National Party’s newly announced energy policy blatant climate denial and an affront to all the people and communities already suffering the impacts of climate change.
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Labour’s energy policy “stingy” in the context of multi-billion dollar Covid Recovery – Greenpeace
Greenpeace says they are underwhelmed by today’s energy announcement from the Labour Party. The environmental organisation says that while the policy includes some positive steps for decarbonising New Zealand’s energy system, it’s nowhere near bold enough, especially given the size of the Covid Recovery budget.
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Environmental Policy Performance of the Ardern Government Ahead of Election 2020
The Ardern-led Government, elected in 2017, promised to be environmental leaders. The Prime Minister in her election campaign launch speech called climate change “my generation’s nuclear free moment”. She said “we will clean up our rivers”. So, now that we are weeks away from the 2020 Election, let’s look at how it’s going.
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Greenpeace welcomes Māori Party’s bold climate policy
Greenpeace is applauding the Māori Party for its bold climate change policy, and encourages Co-Leader Debbie Ngārewa-Packer to make climate change a bottom line in any potential coalition negotiations.
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Bringing the lessons of Covid-19 to bear on New Zealand’s 2020 Election
The Covid-19 pandemic taught us many lessons. Perhaps the most important was how connected everything is. When an impulsive choice to go out to see friends during lockdown might mean…
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Greenpeace welcomes Green Party plan to boost solar and end coal/gas
Greenpeace is applauding the Green Party on their energy policy announcement today but seeks assurances that the Greens will make phasing out fossil fuels and investing in distributed renewable energy…
