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He Waka Eke Noa fails to cut dairy emissions
Greenpeace Aotearoa says that even with amendments released today, the Government’s farmgate emissions pricing system known as He Waka Eke Noa will fail to cut climate emissions from agriculture, New Zealand's biggest polluter.
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Five green solutions to the cost of living crisis
Companies have hiked up the price of fuel, food and electricity this year, leaving families in Aotearoa and around the world facing increasing financial hardship. New Zealand companies are making…
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Why ocean protection can’t be left in the hands of commercial fishing
Commercial fishing is one of the greatest threats to the health of the ocean. Years of destructive, industrial-scale fishing globally and here in Aotearoa have caused habitat loss, species decline. That's why we're running a campaign to get bottom trawling banned on seamounts and features. But the industry has other ideas.
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Greenpeace renews call on Ardern to freeze Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov’s assets
In response to the latest moves by Russia to annex areas of Ukraine, the New Zealand Government has signalled that it will impose more sanctions on Russians who support the…
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Cheeky Wellington billboards highlight government’s climate greenwash
The day before nationwide Climate Strikes, Greenpeace Aotearoa has erected three billboards across Wellington today in a bid to highlight the Government’s lack of action on climate change.
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A pathway to Te Ao Māori and Kaitiakitanga through Te Reo
I heard the other day an expression that te reo Māori was the pathway to Te Ao Māori (the Māori world). This sums it up for me. Te Wiki o te Reo Māori is about creating space to reclaim and revitalise our language.
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Four podcasts to ease your climate anxiety
When global leaders fail to urgently implement the necessary political and environmental actions while people and the planet are facing the catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis, it is natural…
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What the cost of living crisis and climate crisis have in common
The cost of living crisis has been in the headlines a lot lately, and so it should be. As companies have hiked up the price of fuel, food and electricity
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You cannot take the reo and leave behind the tikanga
The visionaries that delivered the petition for te reo Māori must have known this. Ki tōku nei whakaaro, this was not just a march to parliament for te reo Māori, this was a search party that set out to help find those of us lost to te ao Māori.
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New Zealand’s ocean legacy hangs in the balance
New Zealand is used to singing its own praises on environmentalism. But when it comes to protecting the ocean, the greenwash is starting to peel. New Zealand must back a strong Global Ocean Treaty.
