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Auckland Council passes historic vote to oppose deep sea oil drilling
Auckland Council has just voted to oppose the Government’s offshore oil agenda in New Zealand, for the first time ever.
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New Zealand’s promise “dead in the water” as Paris Climate Agreement comes into force
Greenpeace New Zealand is calling for a summer of action to highlight what it’s calling the Government’s “sham plan” to meet the Paris Climate Change Agreement, which came into force today.
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Greenpeace teams up with scientists to search for Māui dolphin
Greenpeace New Zealand has teamed up with researchers at the University of Auckland in an effort to discover more about the critically endangered Māui dolphin, including where they go in winter.
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Government urged to better protect Māui dolphin in wake of new population estimate
Greenpeace is calling on further protection for Māui dolphin after the latest population estimate shows the number of the critically endangered dolphin has potentially risen.
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Greenpeace on PCE report into agricultural emissions
In response to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's report “Climate change and Agriculture: Understanding biological greenhouse gases”, Greenpeace Sustainable Agriculture Campaigner Genevieve Toop said:
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New Regional Council must drop Supreme Court dam bid
Greenpeace is calling on the new Hawke’s Bay Regional Council to abandon its fight to the Supreme Court over conservation land needed for the Ruataniwha Dam.
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Unprecedented lawsuit involving Statoil launched on eve of oil giant’s Northland exit
An unprecedented legal case has been filed against the Norwegian Government for allowing oil companies including state-owned Statoil to drill for new oil in the Arctic.
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Greenpeace promises summer of action as oil giant Statoil signals retreat
In the wake of Norwegian oil giant Statoil’s sudden exit from Northland, Greenpeace NZ is calling for a summer of action to drive Statoil and other oil companies out of the country for good.
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Tiki Taane and Greenpeace serenade Electricity Authority with 45,000 suns to protest “solar tax”
New Zealand musician Tiki Taane has just taken 45,000 paper suns to New Zealand’s electricity watchdog, each with the name of someone who signed a petition demanding the authority support solar energy and prohibit electricity providers from penalising solar users.
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Greenpeace welcomes Hawke’s Bay anti-dam council
Greenpeace has welcomed the preliminary results of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council election, saying the new council's top priority must be to ditch the Ruataniwha dam.
