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Greenpeace welcomes Green Party’s household solar election pledge
Greenpeace is applauding the Greens as the first party to announce a household solar policy this election but says the party’s stance in post-election negotiations will make all the difference…
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Greenpeace rebrands MPI building as ‘Ministry for Destructive Fishing’
Greenpeace activists have hung a net full of ‘bycatch’ outside the Ministry for Primary Industries building in Auckland this morning, rebranding the government department ‘The Ministry for Destructive Fishing’.
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Indigenous Pacific leaders call on countries to support ban on deep sea mining
Video projections featuring civil society leaders from the Pacific region calling for a halt to deep sea mining were seen throughout the weekend in Mexico City, Mexico, Toronto, Canada, Dover, UK, and Kingston, Jamaica.
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Bottom trawling ban needed to save plummeting fish populations
New information showing plummeting numbers of orange roughy on seamounts and other features demonstrates why bottom trawling must be banned from these biodiverse areas, say Greenpeace and the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.
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Time for real action on Big Dairy’s climate pollution
Climate change has been in the news a lot lately. And so it should be. But New Zealand's biggest climate polluter, intensive dairy, is pushing to continue polluting for as long as possible.
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Aotearoa wants a Container Return Scheme but the government isn’t listening
This month the Ministry for the Environment published the results of its Transforming Recycling submissions process, where 98% of respondents supported the implementation of a national container return scheme.
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Arctic 30 jailed in Russia argue their case in European Court
The ‘Arctic 30’ – the twenty-eight Greenpeace activists and two freelance journalists who spent two months in Russian jail in 2013 – are finally having their day in court: on…
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An economy for the environment
Introducing the excellent SystemShift podcast, from Greenpeace Nordic.
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Can next week’s special meeting in Chile break the deadlock over East Antarctica’s marine park proposal?
Amid the challenges of climate change, resource extraction and pollution, the survival of species and ecosystems depends on setting aside protected areas. But plans to establish marine protected areas in…
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Flipping Lakes: When Lake Clearwater turns turbid
Ōtūwharekai/Ashburton Lakes are a beautiful set of wetlands and lakes in the Canterbury high country - and they're under threat from high levels of pollution.
