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Fonterra is just a corporation, and it needs to be regulated to protect freshwater and the climate
Fonterra is just a corporation. It is a corporation owned by other corporations. Fonterra, and the corporations that own it, all have a single purpose: maximising financial returns to its…
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NZ Food Safety is working for agribusiness not food consumers
Pesticides are dangerous. They are dangerous for the farm workers applying them, they are destructive of the natural world, and they harm the people who eat the food. But agribusiness…
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Watch the livestream – The Great Freshwater Debate!
We’ll be livestreaming the Great Freshwater Debate on October 19th – find the link to the livestream on this page.
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Luxon ’s Three Years of War on Freshwater 2023-2026
Weakening freshwater policy has been a constant focus of the Luxon Government. Fonterra, Dairy NZ , Beef and Lamb have demanded changes to allow more freshwater pollution and the government has delivered, in spades.
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State of the Climate vs War on the Climate
The NZ Government is systematically introducing policies which are increasing emissions or slowing down emissions reductions.
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Vote for the environment this New Zealand election 2026
Keen to vote for the environment in the upcoming 2026 New Zealand election but don’t know how? We’ve got you!
Breaking news, updates, and commentary from Greenpeace campaigners and issue experts.
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NZ’s controversial methane targets could spark global race to the bottom, enable cover-up of 10 billion tonnes of climate pollution this decade
New research has slammed an alternative greenhouse gas accounting metric, backed by agribusiness lobbyists.
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NZ Govt accused of acting as “industry mouthpiece” after bid to open deep-sea coral hotspot to trawling in Tasman Sea
Environmental groups are calling out the New Zealand Government for attempting to reopen a coral hotspot to bottom trawling, despite recent scientific findings proving the site is home to diverse deep sea life.
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NZ Food Safety told the public pesticide residue levels were safe, while internal assessments said the opposite
Documents released by Greenpeace today show that the NZ Food Safety agency failed to raise alarms over unsafe levels of pesticide residue on food.
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Election candidates to debate fresh water in Christchurch
Greenpeace has announced that it will host an election debate on fresh water in Christchurch on October 19th, titled ‘the Great Freshwater Debate’.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa joins complaint to EU over NZ’s climate policy regression
The complaint addresses Government reversal of climate policies, which Greenpeace has labelled a ‘race to the bottom on environmental regulation’.
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Greenpeace boards Government-owned vessel in deep sea mining protest
Greenpeace activists are occupying a New Zealand state-owned research vessel in Wellington this morning. The Tangaroa has just finished deep sea mineral exploration work for an American company, Glomar, that is vying to start mining in the Pacific as soon as 2027.
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AI is worse for the environment than you think – here’s why
The System Shift podcast dives into one of the biggest climate blind spots of AI: the energy hunger behind AI chipmaking.
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Watch the documentary: Something in the Water
Something in the Water tells the story of people in Canterbury, NZ who are standing up for safe drinking water and swimmable rivers.
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Rainbow Warrior bombing: Call to continue fight against nuclear weapons
Samantha Hayes visited the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland this week.
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40 Years on: The Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior & Indigenous Resistance
Forty years after the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the spirit of resistance sails on. From anti-nuclear activism to climate justice, the push for transformation is inextricably tied to tino…
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Oral submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill
Greenpeace campaigner Gen Toop delivers the Greenpeace submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill.
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VIDEO Taking action to stop bottom trawling
Over the past two weeks the Rainbow Warrior has been at sea off the coast Aotearoa, documenting bottom trawlers and standing up for ocean protection.Greenpeace activists confronted two bottom trawlers…
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