Greenpeace Aotearoa Annual Impact Reports
Greenpeace is people. People like you. We are fiercely independent. We accept no funds from Government or business. We use non-violent direct action to pave the way towards a greener, more peaceful world, and to change the systems that threaten Earth’s ability to sustain life in all its diversity.

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2024 Annual Impact Report
In 2024, in the midst of a global climate and biodiversity crisis, we faced the full force of a new New Zealand Government determined to strip away environmental protections.
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2023 Annual Impact Report
One of the defining features of progressive policy change is its two-steps-forward-one-step-back nature. And so it was in 2023.
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2022 Annual Impact Report
One of the enduring human experiences is the feeling that often the big things are out of our control. The feeling that the ‘system’ is making us an object in the great story of the world, rather than a subject with real choices and agency.
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2021 Annual Impact Report
In 2021 we got used to campaigning on the climate and biodiversity crises while living through a global pandemic. But it wasn’t the same. We didn’t do a lot of real-world actions because of all the lockdowns and other Covid restrictions.
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2020 Greenpeace Annual Impact Report
The end of 2019 marked an intense period of activity for Greenpeace targeting theoffshore exploration activities of Austrian oil company OMV. Along with our allies, weoccupied oil supply ships, we…
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2019 Greenpeace NZ Annual Impact Report
For Greenpeace New Zealand, 2019 was the year to deal with some unfinished business with the oil industry. We had achieved a historic win in 2018 with the government ban on issuing new oil and gas exploration permits (except onshore Taranaki). It was a long hard-fought campaign but, all of us together, we did it.
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2018 Greenpeace NZ Annual Impact Report
The year 2018 was a stand-out year for Greenpeace in Aotearoa and all those who dream of a world full of life in all its diversity. After seven years of…
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2017 Greenpeace NZ Annual Impact Report
The year didn’t start well. A man with a vested interest in oil companies became President of the USA, promising a new era of climate denial, of racism, and promising…
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2016 Greenpeace NZ Annual Impact Report
When Clair Patterson, a geochemistry professor at the California Institute of Technology, was trying to estimate the age of the solar system in the 1940s,he tried to measure the age…