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NZ’s Climate Change Commission needs to account for the huge potential health benefits of reducing emissions
The Climate Change Commission’s recent draft report and recommendations has helped to kick-start an extremely important process.
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Fast action needed on deadly nitrates
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to take urgent action on nitrate levels in drinking water.
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Wolves, Beavers and the interconnectedness of everything
Kids at home, empty streets and dressing from the waist up, New Zealand’s brief dip back into lockdown last week threw us an interesting reminder - people’s lives are deeply intertwined.
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We have changed our name to Greenpeace Aotearoa
At our annual general meeting in 2020, the Greenpeace New Zealand Board of Directors proposed an organisation name change from “Greenpeace New Zealand” to “Greenpeace Aotearoa”. The name was officially…
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Low traffic neighbourhoods: what are they and who are they for?
With more low traffic neighbourhoods being introduced, including recently announced changes to Queen Street in Auckland, here's a useful look at one of the most common criticisms against them, and whether or not it holds up from our colleagues in the UK.
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It is a climate emergency, now let’s act like it
Greenpeace is claiming the Government’s symbolic declaration of climate emergency as a “win for people power”, but is challenging Jacinda Ardern and her Government to follow through quickly with policy and action to cut New Zealand’s climate pollution.
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8 reasons why we need to phase out the fossil fuel industry as we build back better
Fossil fuel corporations are profiting from the continued consumption of coal, oil and gas, which are driving global warming to dangerous levels, but the industry’s bad behavior doesn’t stop with greenhouse gas emissions.
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How to protect the oceans in three steps
The oceans near and far are in trouble. In the face of multiple stressors, from destructive fishing to climate change, the oceans are struggling to recover. But together we can protect them.
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7 ways bottom trawling is bad for the seabed
Overfishing. Millions of tons of sea life find themselves engulfed in trawl nets each year. Trawling has been done so intensively that it’s depleted many kinds of fish in many parts of the world. Catches must be strictly managed or in a few years there’ll be little left.
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Why activists around New Zealand are Telling on Talley’s
For the past few weeks, community activists across New Zealand have been spreading the word about a business that’s been trashing the oceans for years.
