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School strikes take off as legacy from ‘grandfather of climate science’
The death of one of the world’s leading climate scientists this week and the swiftly expanding school climate strikes is symbolic of a generational baton change in the fight against…
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National and Todd Muller fail to grasp climate change is a major challenge for New Zealand
While Tasmania and Tasman District are terrorised by fire and the temperature tally for 2018 confirms the last four calendar years as the hottest on record, National’s Climate Change Spokesperson,…
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Greenpeace supports environmental taxation recommended by Tax Working Group
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to accept recommendations made by the Tax Working Group about environmental taxation and the capital gains tax. But the environmental organisation flags gaps in…
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Greenpeace submission to the New Zealand Government’s Tax Working Group on the Future of Tax
New Zealand’s water quality, soil health, and biodiversity are in decline, and emissions of dangerous greenhouse gases are increasing. We have a moral obligation to future generations to curb this…
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Nelson fires “tip of the ice sheet” without immediate emissions slash
Thursday, February 7: New Zealand scientists are behind a major new international research paper that shows dangerously unpredictable extreme weather could become a reality within decades as the impact of…
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The youth have seen enough
Why are global politics so dysfunctional that the UN climate meeting requires a 15-year-old Swedish grade school student to speak the truth? Why does a coalition of youth, outside the…
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In difficult times, hope is an act of courage
Flooding in Japan, unprecedented monsoons in India, a nearly 30% increase in rainfallthroughout the Americas and 40% across Europe. Africa is seeing deadly droughtsacross Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Australia, Greece, Sweden, Portugal and the…
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5 young activists who inspired us this year
When it comes to climate ambition, these young people put world leaders to shame. This is Zero Hour’s inaugural Youth Climate March on Washington D.C. Led by 16-year-old Jamie Margolin,…
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Thank you for 2018!
Here’s to everything you’ve done in 2018, and to a busy year ahead! Please watch and share this video to help us say thank you to the rest of the…
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Democracy and a web of spies
Around the beginning of 2017, Greenpeace received leaked information indicating that oil companies we’d opposed had contracted spies to watch staff and volunteers on almost a daily basis, and that…
