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The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the period before widespread industralisation. More…

Professor Ed Hawkins, University of Reading

11 January 2025

3 min read

Greenpeace opposes the Treaty Principles Bill in its entirety because we believe that protecting Te Tiriti is the responsibility of everyone who calls Aotearoa New Zealand home and because it is inextricably entwined with our mission to protect nature and peace. Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a “promise of two peoples to take the best possible care of each other.” Through it, Māori gave the Crown the authority to set up a government for her people who had settled or were to settle in Aotearoa while promising the protection of ongoing Māori sovereignty over their lands, territories and resources. It is a vital agreement for everyone who calls Aotearoa New Zealand home, and it is the responsibility of all New Zealanders to honour it. Since 1840, successive governments have breached that foundational agreement. The Treaty Principles have provided a framework to make progress in addressing those breaches and the painful truth of the history of colonisation, including its present-day impacts on both people and nature. This attempt by the ACT party to unilaterally rewrite these principles represents a huge backward step in the reconciliation of our nation and the coming together of our cultures. It should be rejected. Anyone who has been welcomed back to Aotearoa New Zealand, via the carved gateway (tomokanga) and birdsong at Auckland International Airport, will sense that this Bill strikes at the very heart of our identity as New Zealanders.

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AboutUs

Greenpeace Submission on the Treaty Principles Bill

Greenpeace opposes the Treaty Principles Bill in its entirety because we believe that protecting Te Tiriti is the responsibility of everyone who calls Aotearoa New Zealand home and because it…

Greenpeace Aotearoa

17 December 2024

Press release

Oceans, Seabed Mining

Greenpeace slams late release of redacted Fast Track seabed mining documents

Greenpeace is slamming the government’s late release of heavily redacted documents from Trans-Tasman Resources’ Taranaki seabed mining application, including a discredited impact assessment carried from 2016.

Juressa Lee

16 December 2024

A powerful and diverse assembly of voices from around the globe gather in front of the Peace Palace in the Netherlands to demand climate justice. As the International Court of Justice prepares to begin its hearings on climate change and its impacts on human rights for current and future generations, this peaceful demonstration sets the stage for these historic discussions. © Emiel Hornman / Greenpeace

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Climate Change

What started in the Pacific is now the world’s largest climate justice campaign!

Pasifika activists are making history with their world-first campaign demanding countries be held legally responsible to protect their people from the impacts of the climate crisis.

Shiva Gounden

10 December 2024

6 min read

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Oil&Gas

Warships, polar bears, ice and oil are not a good mix

I have a small boat that I use for fishing and exploring where I live in the Manukau Harbour. It’s beautiful out there and it can get a bit wild…

Nick Young

10 June 2011

3 min read

Rukutai Watene and Peeti Wharehoka-Watene of Ngāti Ruanui, along with six Greenpeace activists interrupted the Sydney AGM of Australian mining company Manuka Resources, the owner of Trans-Tasman Resources, telling shareholders that he and his hapū will continue to resist seabed mining in their rohe.

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Seabed Mining

On stopping seabed mining, AGMs and bad guests.

Last week, a bunch of us from the Greenpeace team joined up with our friends from Ngāti Ruanui, bought a few shares and flew over to Sydney to the offices…

Juan Parada

6 December 2024

4 min read

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Plastics

Submission to the Waikato Regional Council on Global Contracting Solutions applications for resource consents to build a waste incinerator at 401 Racecourse Road, Te Awamutu

This proposal for an incinerator is the first of its kind in Aotearoa New Zealand and as such requires close scrutiny. Permitting this incinerator could open the flood gates to…

Juressa Lee

21 September 2023