Build Back Better
We all know a better world is possible. On a quiet day, we can hear her breathing. A nation of homes, businesses and transport powered by clean renewable electricity and free of dirty fossil fuels. A place where food production systems are transformed from polluting industrial agriculture to regenerative farming, that nourishes rather than replaces nature. A country where we protect the oceans and forests instead of exploiting them, and where we reconfigure our economy to be circular – free of waste and single-use products. Right now, we have a golden opportunity to realise this new world as we get New Zealand back up and running – but we will have to stand up and demand it.
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The Auckland Council Budget should invest in people and resilience
The Auckland region urgently needs to invest and expand this city’s transition for a safe climate future in a way that is just for all.
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The system isn’t broken, ‘Davos man’ built it this way. So let’s change it
There will not be the usual flood of private jets heading to Davos in Switzerland next week.
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Greenpeace briefing to the incoming government on priorities for the environment and building back better in the Covid recovery
It is our view that the following policies would have the most significant, positive impact on New Zealand’s ecological and climate footprint.
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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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Covid-19 Build Back Better: A disability lens on digging deep
I’m a blind twenty-something from Aotearoa, and when the Covid pandemic hit in March, I got lucky.
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Why all human rights depend on a healthy environment
Recent revelations about the speed and scale of nature’s decline are hard to truly comprehend. Not since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago has the diversity and abundance of…
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Five ways NZ will be much better if Jacinda makes good on her promise to Build Back Better
Jacinda Ardern pledged, on election night, to build back better. With her landslide election win, there really is no excuse not to. So, what could Aotearoa New Zealand look like in ten years’ time, if the Labour-led Government makes good on this promise?
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The world failed on all of its biodiversity targets. What happens next?
Last week, all governments found out how they scored against the targets they set themselves a decade ago to protect nature. It was pretty bad.
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Election 2020: What have political parties committed to do about climate change and the environment?
UPDATED 21 Sept – With just five weeks to go until Election Day, we take a look at what New Zealand’s political parties have committed to so far, when it comes to addressing climate change. This is not intended to tell you which party to vote for. We need all political parties to do better,…
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PETITION: Solarise New Zealand
Call on the New Zealand Government to put solar panels and batteries on 500k homes by 2030