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Greenpeace demands release of plastics treaty activists, as global talks enter final stages
Busan, South Korea – British, German, Taiwanese and Mexican activists (1) are being detained by the South Korean police, following a 12 hour peaceful protest against a petrochemical shipment yesterday…
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Greenpeace challenges petrochemical tanker as Busan plastics treaty talks enter final stage
Daesan, South Korea – As the final negotiations for a UN Global Plastics Treaty enter a critical phase in Busan, South Korea[1] Greenpeace International activists have boarded a tanker that…
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Seabed mining AGM disrupted by representatives of Ngāti Ruanui and Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists, along with representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui, have disrupted the annual general meeting of Manuka Resources, the Australian mining company planning to fast-track seabed mining in the…
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Greenpeace gives Christopher Luxon an F for first year in Govt waging War on Nature
On the one-year anniversary of the current government being sworn in, Greenpeace is giving them a fail for its performance due to what has become known as Christopher Luxon’s War on Nature.
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Who is Manuka Resources and why are they trying to mine the seabed in Taranaki?
Manuka Resources is an Australian-owned mining company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, with offices based in Sydney. They have interests in gold and silver mining in Australia. They are also…
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At Global Plastics Treaty talks, Greenpeace warns leaders that the world watching with giant eye
A flag with a giant eye composed of thousands of portraits from around the world has been unfurled from a 10-storey crane as government representatives in Busan for global plastics treaty talks.
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COP29 ‘bandaid over a bullet wound’, polluters should expect resistance
Greenpeace Aotearoa has labelled the UN climate conference COP29 ‘a bandaid over a bullet wound’ as negotiations wrapped up on Sunday.
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One Year of Luxon’s War on Nature
There is a three-headed monster hunkered down in the Beehive. It squats on a huge pile of campaign donation gold collected from multinational corporations desperate to mine and destroy the forests, rivers, and mountains of Aotearoa.
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Giant petition demanding strong Global Plastics Treaty delivered to global plastics meeting
Busan, South Korea – A petition signed by almost three million people[1] from over 182 countries calling for a historic, legally binding, Global Plastics Treaty to drastically reduce production and…
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COP29: Climate finance for the Pacific is mostly loans, saddling small island nations with more debt
As this year’s UN climate summit reaches its final stage of negotiations, Pacific scholars are calling on world leaders to improve the dispersal system of climate finance to support people…
