{"id":14640,"date":"2020-09-24T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/new-zealand\/?p=14640"},"modified":"2024-07-12T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:42:44","slug":"national-promises-dirty-rivers-and-more-fuel-for-climate-fires-greenpeace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/national-promises-dirty-rivers-and-more-fuel-for-climate-fires-greenpeace\/","title":{"rendered":"National promises dirty rivers and more fuel for climate fires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greenpeace is calling the National Party\u2019s newly announced agriculture policy \u201ctantamount to climate denial\u201d and \u201ca promise for more dirty rivers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The National Party\u2019s policy would delay bringing agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme if it wins the October election.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe climate crisis is on our doorstep. Right now, unprecedented wildfires are raging in the Amazon rainforest, California and Siberia,\u201d says Greenpeace agriculture campaigner, Genevieve Toop.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIndustrial dairying is New Zealand\u2019s biggest climate polluter. By promising to delay putting agriculture into the emissions trading scheme, the National party\u2019s new policy is tantamount to climate denial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Today\u2019s announcement follows hot on the heels of the party\u2019s pledge to overturn the ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration, which also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/national-party-energy-policy-election-2020\/\">drew strong criticism from Greenpeace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The National Party\u2019s policy would also review or repeal nine of the new freshwater protections put in under the current government, including the cap on synthetic fertiliser use. Synthetic fertiliser is one of the largest sources of nitrogen pollution into New Zealand\u2019s waterways and has been a key driver of the intensification of dairying.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cRight now, our rivers are too dirty to swim in, our drinking water is becoming contaminated and our native freshwater fish are on the brink of extinction,\u201d says Toop.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cNational\u2019s promise to remove crucial water protections, like the cap on synthetic fertiliser, is a betrayal of the rights of New Zealanders to swim in clean rivers and access safe drinking water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The National Party\u2019s announcement comes just one day after the Labour Party pledged $50 million in support for integrated farm plans. Toop says that Ardern&#8217;s policy announcement falls well short of her promised action on the climate crisis, which Ardern described as her generation\u2019s \u201cnuclear-free moment\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIs this all that Labour has to say about our biggest climate polluter and the main threat to freshwater in New Zealand?\u201d Toop says.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIf Ardern wants to retain credibility on climate change then she needs to explain how her party is going to deal with too many cows.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace is calling on all political parties to adopt ambitious climate and environment policies this election, and has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/election-2020-what-have-political-parties-committed-to-do-about-climate-change-and-the-environment\/\">an overview of major party climate and environment policies<\/a> on its website.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cAny political party that is serious about climate change and protecting nature would have a 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