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Dear Womad, we love your music, but your oil industry sponsors suck!
One of my favourite things about summer is all the outdoor music festivals. So it really grinds my gears when big polluters go and spoil it all by plastering their…
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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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An opportunity to support a strong solar and wind electricity generation strategy for New Zealand
Government is now consulting on how to boost clean energy in NZ. It’s not ambitious enough to tackle the climate emergency, but you can have your say now on improving it.
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OMV’s deep sea oil drill fails
South Islanders will be bidding ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Austrian oil and gas giant OMV, which has come up empty handed following a controversial deep sea drill in the Great South…
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Roading announcement undercuts clean transport development
The Government’s plan to spend $5.3 billion on building new roads will slow down the development of clean transport in New Zealand, according to Greenpeace. The environmental organisation’s climate and…
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Protests outside Australian Consulates over bushfires
As the devastating bushfires continue to burn across Australia, Australian Consulates in Auckland and Wellington are being met by protestors demanding more pressure be put on Australian Prime Minister Scott…
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Christopher Luxon’s wreckless promise to restart oil and gas exploration could mean catastrophic oil spills
Jacinda Ardern’s April 2018 ban on new oil exploration permits put New Zealand's vast EEZ off limits to new oil and gas exploration, except for a few areas where permits were released before the ban.
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OMV oil drilling consent deeply hypocritical following Madrid climate summit
Greenpeace has slammed the Government for granting a controversial oil and gas drilling consent just days after championing New Zealand’s climate leadership at a global summit in Madrid. The Environmental…
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Adaptive ideas in the era of the Anthropocene
To survive the twin climate and ecological crisis, our ideas must evolve - we need to embrace ideas that allow us to adapt to the world as we collectively have made it, and we desperately need to jettison some maladaptive ideas that are locking us into a climate and biodiversity disaster.
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Greenpeace installs oil museum at OMV
After three days of barricading the OMV offices in New Plymouth through wind and driving rain, climate protesters have left the Austrian oil company a parting gift. They’ve installed a…