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Industry lobbying influence a major brake on Government action
In the wake of revelations that Chris Hipkins' chief of staff, Andrew Kirton, lobbied against the Container Return Scheme on behalf of the liquor industry shortly before the scheme was scrapped by the Prime Minister, Greenpeace is calling for the scheme to be reintroduced immediately, and also warning that the problem goes much deeper.
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10 key points from the IPCC Climate Science Report
World’s leading climate scientists have just released their assessment of the climate emergency and ways to deal with it.
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IPCC report a wake-up call for Hipkins as climate election approaches
Greenpeace says that the latest report confirms the industrial drivers of climate change, its dire planetary impacts, and the urgent need for transformative action.
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We can’t be Māori without the ocean
I was guided to be where I am, in this moment - by my tupuna (ancestors). Through the journey’s I’ve been through from pepi (baby), to tamariki (child), to rangatahi (youth and young adult), to who I am today - is all in guidance and a natural process for us, as Māori.
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Global Recycling Day and the recycled greenwash
Today is global recycling day, but as most of you probably know already, recycling is a bit of a sham. Years ago when I found out that only 9% of…
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Cyclone Gabrielle climate disaster a wake-up call and an opportunity for a reset of land-use and the role of native forest
We have all been horrified by the tragedy in Te Tai Rawhiti and Hawkes Bay – the massive jumbles of pine tree ‘slash’ (branches, tree crowns, wood and logs) that…
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Governments must not undermine historic Global Ocean Treaty by giving green light to deep sea mining
A delegation of Pacific activists has arrived in Jamaica ahead of this week’s International Seabed Authority (ISA) conference to ensure Pacific and indigenous participation.
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Fonterra gets “flooded” by climate activists on profit reporting day
As Fonterra reported that its interim profits are up by 50%, two Greenpeace climate activists have been arrested in a protest which turned Fonterra’s Corporate HQ into a virtual flood…
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Dramatic scenes as Fonterra HQ hit with climate protest
There are dramatic scenes unfolding at Fonterra’s corporate HQ in Auckland this morning as employees arrive at work to find the dairy giant’s head offices have been turned into a…
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Greenpeace ‘floods’ Fonterra’s Auckland HQ
The Fonterra corporate HQ in Auckland appears to be flooded this morning, and Greenpeace activists are piling flood-damaged household items on the dairy giant’s doorstep.
