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Leading NZers urge Ardern to end oil exploration
A group of leading New Zealanders, including scientists, health professionals, unions, and the current New Zealand Poet Laureate, have launched an open letter urging Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to end oil and gas exploration.
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Russel Norman: Climate Commission needs teeth like Reserve Bank
Greenpeace New Zealand Executive Director, Russel Norman, says the new Government’s Climate Commission needs to be given teeth if it’s to have any significant impact on reducing emissions.
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Continued oil search undermines Ardern’s Pacific climate pledge
Greenpeace commends Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for pledging to increase climate assistance to Pacific nations, but says if Ardern is serious about tackling the issue, she must also put an end oil and gas exploration immediately.
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Govt urged to use regional development fund for just transitions
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to use the Regional Development Fund to back up its promises of a just transition to clean energy.
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Genesis’ plan to keep coal burning until 2030 stuns
In a move that has stunned environmentalists, Genesis Energy has announced a plan to keep burning coal for power generation until 2030.
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Greenpeace amused at negative survey oil industry releases about itself
Greenpeace is calling oil industry efforts to put a positive spin on a just-released public perception survey “desperate and misleading”.
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Climate activists locked on oil supply ship threatened with “draconian” Anadarko Amendment
Wednesday, January 31: Police have warned climate activists currently locked onto an offshore oil exploration support ship in the Port of Taranaki that officials from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) are travelling from Wellington to charge them under the 'Anadarko Amendment'.
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New permit issued for oil and gas exploration must be NZ’s last
Greenpeace says today's permit issued by New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals is very disappointing and must be the last if the Government are true to their word on climate change.
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Environmental heavyweights pen letter to Govt
The country’s largest environmental organisations have sent an open letter to the Government this morning, calling for an end to new fossil fuel expansion.
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Govt refusal to rule out fossil fuel expansion undermines new Climate Commission
Greenpeace says the Government’s announcement on the formalisation of a Climate Commission is a positive step, but expanding the fossil fuel industry by issuing new fossil fuel permits would undermine the Commission before it even gets started.
