{"id":60728,"date":"2015-06-26T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=60728"},"modified":"2024-07-12T09:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T21:07:21","slug":"activists-scale-parliament-house-to-expose-national-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/activists-scale-parliament-house-to-expose-national-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists scale Parliament House to expose National failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four Greenpeace campaigners have evaded security and climbed to the roof of Parliament House with a delivery of eight solar panels. They also plan to unfurl a large banner targeting the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f9f6b242-gp0stp4ma_medium_res-1024x701.jpg\" alt=\"Four Greenpeace activists climb on the roof of Parliament Building in Wellington to install half a dozen solar panels. \" class=\"wp-image-60731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f9f6b242-gp0stp4ma_medium_res-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f9f6b242-gp0stp4ma_medium_res-600x411.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f9f6b242-gp0stp4ma_medium_res-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f9f6b242-gp0stp4ma_medium_res-497x340.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f9f6b242-gp0stp4ma_medium_res.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Four Greenpeace activists climb on the roof of Parliament Building in Wellington with solar panels and a banner. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>\u201cCut pollution, create jobs? Yeah, nah\u201d reads the banner text, which sits alongside a smiling headshot of John Key. The message refers to the Key Government&#8217;s failure to act on climate change, which has seen pollution increase and New Zealand miss out on creating thousands of clean energy jobs.<\/p>\n\n<p>The activists have lined the ledge just below the building\u2019s roofline with solar panels and are using them to power their phones and connect to the internet to communicate with people around the world.<\/p>\n\n<p>Chief policy advisor for Greenpeace New Zealand, Nathan Argent, says with people now shovelling mud out of their homes and counting the cost of the latest extreme weather events, there is no excuse for doing nothing.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f29b8a37-gp0stp4m5_medium_res-1024x582.jpg\" title=\"Four Greenpeace activists climb on the roof of Parliament Building in Wellington and install half a dozen solar panels. They have also unfurled a large banner with a satirical message about Prime Minister John Key. While on the roof, the activists are using the solar panels to power a wifi hub and communicate to people from around New Zealand. The aim of the protest is to expose the Key Government&#039;s failure to act on climate change, which has seen pollution increase and New Zealand miss out on creating thousands of clean energy jobs. Greenpeace is asking the government to put in place a real climate action plan, which would shift the country towards running on 100% clean energy.&quot;\" alt=\"Four Greenpeace activists climb on the roof of Parliament Building in Wellington and install half a dozen solar panels. They have also unfurled a large banner with a satirical message about Prime Minister John Key. While on the roof, the activists are using the solar panels to power a wifi hub and communicate to people from around New Zealand. The aim of the protest is to expose the Key Government's failure to act on climate change, which has seen pollution increase and New Zealand miss out on creating thousands of clean energy jobs. Greenpeace is asking the government to put in place a real climate action plan, which would shift the country towards running on 100% clean energy.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-60717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f29b8a37-gp0stp4m5_medium_res-1024x582.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f29b8a37-gp0stp4m5_medium_res-600x341.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f29b8a37-gp0stp4m5_medium_res-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f29b8a37-gp0stp4m5_medium_res-510x290.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/f29b8a37-gp0stp4m5_medium_res.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Four Greenpeace activists climb on the roof of Parliament Building in Wellington and install half a dozen solar panels. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>\u201cOur government needs to put in place a real climate action plan now. John Key has had seven years to take climate change seriously and to take action, but instead, he&#8217;s failed to introduce a single piece of law to reduce climate pollution. Pollution is only growing and it will cost our economy billions in the future\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/dcf0f0c2-gp0stp4m4_medium_res-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/dcf0f0c2-gp0stp4m4_medium_res-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/dcf0f0c2-gp0stp4m4_medium_res-600x339.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/dcf0f0c2-gp0stp4m4_medium_res-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/dcf0f0c2-gp0stp4m4_medium_res-510x288.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/08\/dcf0f0c2-gp0stp4m4_medium_res.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Four Greenpeace activists climb on the roof of Parliament Building in Wellington and install half a dozen solar panels. They have also unfurled a large banner with a satirical message about Prime Minister John Key. While on the roof, the activists are using the solar panels to power a wifi hub and communicate to conduct a Reddit AMA. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>By the government\u2019s own figures, the increase in total emissions by 2020 will be almost 30% worse than it was in 1990.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of investing in clean energy, this government has handed over millions in taxpayer&#8217;s money to some of the world\u2019s biggest polluters to drill our seas for oil,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cA real climate action plan would shift us to 100% clean energy. This will cut pollution, create tens of thousands of jobs, and provide a multibillion-dollar boost year-on-year to the economy. \u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Detailed energy modelling by the world-renowned German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has already shown that New Zealand can be 92% fossil fuel free across the economy by 2050, and oil free for road transport within two decades.<\/p>\n\n<p>But despite our huge clean energy potential, New Zealand is fast becoming one of the world&#8217;s worst laggards on climate action, which risks damaging our reputation, Argent says.<\/p>\n\n<p>In a New Zealand first, the group on the roof of Parliament House are using the application Periscope to provide live streaming of the protest, giving people all over the world the chance to watch the event in real-time from a bird\u2019s-eye perspective.<\/p>\n\n<p>They are also holding what they\u2019ve coined a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/3azjlf\/iama_climber_who_just_scaled_nzs_parliament_with\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reddit on the Roof<\/a>\u201d session, which allows anyone to use Reddit, a user-generated webpage popular for its \u201cAsk Me Anything\u201d section, to ask them questions.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/r4U-_tjMZMI\/hqdefault.jpg');\" videoid=\"r4U-_tjMZMI\" params=\"rel=0\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p>Experienced climber Johno Smith is one of the four.<\/p>\n\n<p>He recently made headlines as the only Kiwi among six global activists who climbed aboard a 38,000-tonne Shell oil rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and camped there for a week to protest against the oil giant\u2019s plans to drill in the delicate Arctic.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-52060 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/donation\/donate-to-greenpeace\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2020\/04\/d1493c84-gp04gyu_pressmedia-1024x576.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2020\/04\/d1493c84-gp04gyu_pressmedia-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2020\/04\/d1493c84-gp04gyu_pressmedia-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2020\/04\/d1493c84-gp04gyu_pressmedia-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2020\/04\/d1493c84-gp04gyu_pressmedia-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2020\/04\/d1493c84-gp04gyu_pressmedia-510x287.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2020\/04\/d1493c84-gp04gyu_pressmedia.jpg 1920w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"A photo of the Rainbow Warrior arriving in Wellington\" title=\"A photo of the Rainbow Warrior arriving in Wellington\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/donation\/donate-to-greenpeace\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDonate to Greenpeace\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Take action for environmental protection. 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