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Fossil Fuels are fuelling war
Human-induced climate change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots : fossil fuels and our dependence on them” said Ukrainian climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska as Russia, one of
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Russia Sanctions by New Zealand off to a limp start
The New Zealand Government has announced its first set of sanctions in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine but Greenpeace says they have missed the most obvious target.
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Ukraine Peace Flotilla reaches oligarch retreat in Helena Bay
Following an early morning karakia conducted by locals in Whangaruru Harbour, the Ukraine Peace Flotilla has reached Helena Bay in Northland where Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov has his luxury retreat.
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Case for freezing Abramov’s assets grows stronger as Ukraine peace flotilla nears Helena Bay
The justification for sanctioning New Zealand’s wealthiest Russian investor, Alexander Abramov is growing stronger by the day according to Greenpeace Aotearoa which has today released a list of points to…
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Ukraine Peace Flotilla on its way with call to freeze oligarch assets
The Ukraine Peace Flotilla set sail from Auckland this morning with “No War” banners flying.
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Peace flotilla pressures Govt to put new sanctions law to work
As Parliament debates a new law to enable the New Zealand Government to impose sanctions over the war in Ukraine, a peace flotilla is preparing to sail north to make…
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Greenpeace to join Peace Flotilla to Russian oligarch’s Helena Bay property
Greenpeace Aotearoa is throwing its support behind a peace flotilla planned to converge on Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov’s luxury coastal retreat in Helena Bay, Northland later this week.
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Ukraine: Greenpeace calls for freeze on Russian oligarch assets
Greenpeace Aotearoa’s executive director Russel Norman says the organisation “condemns the Russian government’s cruel invasion of Ukraine and calls on President Putin to withdraw his forces and cease military operations.”
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A decade since the Fukushima disaster
I still remember when the news broke about a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre in 2001 and the visuals of the giant waves hitting Indonesia and Thailand’s coast in 2004. Another shocking tragedy that affected so many of us was the tsunami hitting the nuclear power station on Fukushima’s coast. The images from…
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Nuclear weapons are illegal at last
Nuclear arms are the most destructive, indiscriminate and monstrous weapons ever produced – but today, we can all celebrate a major milestone in the long march towards peace: the Treaty…