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NZ’s climate plan slammed as “a sham” as Paula Bennett prepares to sign Paris agreement
Questions about the National Government’s fitness to lead on climate issues are being raised as Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett prepares to sign the Paris climate agreement on behalf of New Zealand tomorrow.
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Organised crime scandal shows NZ’s climate policy is a “total bloody waste of time”
On the back of a report released this morning that shows the NZ Government has allowed businesses to buy fraudulent carbon credits from Russia and Ukraine, Greenpeace New Zealand has called for the linchpin of New Zealand’s climate policy to be thrown out.
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Huntly must close in wake of world’s largest coal company filing for bankruptcy
The pressure is mounting for New Zealand’s last coal fired power-plant, Huntly, to close its two remaining coal units in the wake of news that the world’s largest private sector coal company has just filed for bankruptcy.
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Oil Block Offer a ‘Desperate, Last-Ditch Bid by the Government to Try and Save Failing Oil Plans’
Responding to today’s oil block offer announcement by Simon Bridges, Greenpeace’s senior climate campaigner Simon Boxer said:
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Hundreds descend on Central Auckland to blockade NZ’s largest oil event
More than 200 people are descending on New Zealand’s largest oil industry conference at dawn this morning and blocking its entrances as part of a Greenpeace-organised demonstration of peaceful civil disobedience.
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US environmental kingpin Bill McKibben throws his weight behind civil disobedience in NZ
World-leading environmentalist Bill McKibben is today urging New Zealanders to take part in peaceful civil disobedience to overthrow “radicalism”.
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John Key Should Resign as Tourism Minister: Greenpeace
Key’s continued backing for intensive dairy irrigation schemes, which will increase pollution of New Zealand’s rivers and streams, means he is unfit for the tourism job, claims Greenpeace.
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Climate action “a matter of life and death” after February temperatures smash global records
The month of February has experienced a whopping temperature rise never seen before in the history of record-keeping, according to just-released global satellite data.
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Peaceful civil disobedience for #RealClimateAction
Join us on Monday 21 March for a non-violent peaceful act of civil disobedience at SkyCity Convention Centre, co-ordinated by Greenpeace in the tradition of Te Whiti and Tohu, and Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Greenpeace launches civil disobedience campaign against NZ’s largest oil event
Greenpeace is calling for members of the public to take part in a co-ordinated demonstration of peaceful civil disobedience at the annual petroleum conference at SkyCity in Auckland.
