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Show your heart for the Hauraki
Late last month hundreds of people gathered at Auckland’s Mission Bay for an on-water rally to show some love for the Hauraki Gulf – Tīkapa Moana and send a clear message to decision makers: ban bottom trawling in the marine park.
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State of the Environment: Greenpeace Briefing to Political Parties
Our world is in crisis. As we have seen with the Cyclone Gabrielle tragedy, human-induced climate change is putting our homes, communities, health, food supply and livelihoods at risk through…
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Time to throw He Waka Eke Noa on the policy bonfire
As Aucklanders weather yet another severe storm and brace themselves for more slips and flooding, Greenpeace Aotearoa says it’s time for urgent action to reduce agricultural emissions.
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Labour misses golden opportunity to stop seabed mining
Greenpeace Aotearoa has slammed the Labour Government’s failure to support Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s Seabed Mining Prohibition Amendment Bill.
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Why waste-to-energy incineration is a bad idea and not the answer to NZ’s plastic waste crisis
New Zealand is ranked the third-most-wasteful country in the OECD. New Zealanders produce five times the global daily average of waste per person – and they are getting more wasteful,…
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The seabed mining fight is not over: a potential ban and back to the EPA
May 2023 is shaping up to be a busy month on the seabed mining front in Aotearoa, with a bill before Parliament, and the beginning of the next round of…
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Plastic made me anxious during my pregnancy and here’s what I did about it
I never thought the issue of plastic pollution and my pregnancy would be spoken in the same sentence, and yet they are.
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Coca-Cola greenwashes sustainability claims
In 2021, Coca-Cola had approximately 4 billion refillable plastic bottles and 25 billion refillable glass bottles in circulation. These numbers have remained virtually unchanged despite its pledge to increase refill…
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Coca-cola’s latest greenwashing an attempt at disguising its biggest polluter status
Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling out the “blatant greenwashing” by Coca-Cola after the world’s biggest plastic polluter announced it will replace its green bottles with clear plastic.
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Fisheries Industry Transformation Plan full of holes
Greenpeace is scathing in its response to the new Fisheries Industry Transformation plan’s recommendations for bottom trawling, saying it amounts to little more than fanciful thinking, offering false hope that future technology will solve the problem.
