A good campaign should be able to be waged in a pub. So a couple of Fridays ago we set out on our first Christchurch Sign On pub crawl . With five trusty volunteers, myself and a fistful of Rhys Darby 'what if the hippies are right?'...

Hi all, i'm J - Waikato Sign On volunteer coordinator. We had a 40% by 2020 day of action here on Friday. Not a Sign On event as such, more just a rally for locals concerned about climate change and wanting our Government to commit to...

You think Letterman made him famous abroad? Sign On is working equally hard to boost Prime Minister John Key's profile offshore. Thanks to the campaign, his name is appearing on iconic statues the world over, from Sweden to Norway to...

Last Thursday various student groups at Victoria University in Wellington set up camp in the quad over lunchtime, Signing On hundreds of fellow students and generally loving the opportunity to run around in polar bear costumes and...

Here's three great videos for the day starting with Where will you be on October 24th ... the International 350 Day of Climate Action ? Put yourself on the map .

We got 213 Sign Ons and we raised $95 profit!  It was great fun. Over and out.

Today I witnessed what could prove to be an historic moment.  At the negotiations in Bangkok this afternoon, Norway announced that it's the first country outside of the European Union to adopt a target of 40% below 1990 levels by...

New Zealand has once more been awarded Fossil of the Day at the UN climate talks in Bangkok (honestly, blogging on this would be getting boring if it wasn’t so depressing).  Third place this time.  The reason why New Zealand got a...

Another busy weekend out on the mean streets of Auckland for the Sign On team.....

A really bizarre thing happened today at the New Zealand Embassy in Berlin.  A group of people arrived to hand over New Zealand’s Fossil of the Day award, but that’s not the bizarre thing.  The strange thing about the event was the...

After the first day of negotiations here in Bangkok it’s becoming clear that Asia is where the climate action’s at.  Japan has increased its target to 25%, which resulted in public praise from other delegations, in contrast to the...

Over the weekend, Sign On community organisers from across the country gathered in Auckland to plan the next 70 days - or should we say, the last 70 days in the countdown to Copenhagen . We have Sign On teams right around the...

Sign On was out in force over the weekend, at the official kick off of the World March for Peace and Non-Violence in  Auckland.  And we had a little help from our friends; Ambassador Lucy Lawless was not only flying the peace...

My granddaughter Isla was christened recently. I stood by as she was blessed with prayers for her future, knowing her parents’ mix of pride and hope. Instead I felt fear. Fear for the world she would inherit. Fear she would never...

While John Key was arriving at the UN climate change summit in New York, 40 of the world's leading scientists were signing a open letter reiterating the call for developed nations to commit to a 40% emissions reduction target on 1990...

This just in – a blue cast photo of a group of Christchurch pre-schoolers, taken by Sign On supporter Tessa.  “It’s the children who will be affected the most by the carbon emissions target therefore I thought it should be their...

Today Wellington High School students asked John Key to take their future seriously. Wellington sign on volunteer and student Lydia Metcalfe made a speech at school assembly letting students know about the campaign. After the...

A few hours ago, John Key announced the Government’s emission reduction target for Copenhagen. In a nutshell it ain't good. And with all due respect to the Government, we are accepting it as no more than an opening gambit. In terms...

Today is the last day for submissions on what New Zealand's 2020 target should be. You can read Greenpeace’s submission here. Also of note today, UK Under-Secretary of State and Foreign Affairs Chris Bryant is currently in New...

Went down to Hamilton tonight for the latest instalment of Nick Smith’s climate targets roadshow – the public’s chance to have its say on what NZ’s 2020 target should be.  But I’m feeling more and more this is simply a PR exercise than...

This week NZ's government begins consulting on a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2020. NZ is one of the last developed countries to set this target, in preparation for the international climate change negotiations at ...

Hey everybody, I survived the transit across to Aitutaki! There has been quite a swell and a lot of movement but I managed to sleep through the majority of it; I was only sick once, man, am I grateful. This morning we jumped on...

It's Keith here again - I am the Auckland signature gathering coordinator for the Greenpeace Sign On campaign. I would like to invite all volunteers and supporters who have an interest in helping out with gathering signatures to a Sign...

It's been an amazing year and we've come a long way. Our leaders failed us in Copenhagen but their failure will inspire action. We will not give up until John Key commits to a target of 40 per cent by 2020. It's important that the...

So how bad was it? And what's everyone saying about it? In this video , Guardian Environment editor John Vidal examines the final frantic hours of Copenhagen's climate summit.

As i write this, security are moving through the Bella Centre in Copenhagen where the talks are being held and evicting all NGO observers except for a lucky 54 (that's 54 in total from the thousands of NGO representatives who're at the...

The political battles in the negotiations have begun.  The first big jolt to the negotiations happened yesterday when a proposed deal that the Danish Government had been consulting on was leaked to UK newspaper The Guardian . ...

This year we've called on Prime Minister John Key to do two things - go to Copenhagen, and commit NZ to 40 per cent by 2020 emissions reduction targets. We are now almost 180,000 strong and John Key has just announced that he has...

Oh dear, it gets worse. "New Zealand is blaming the Kyoto Protocol for its low emissions target," a delegate (from where I couldn’t possibly divulge) just told me at the climate change talks in Barcelona today. This comment came...

Kyoto Protocol negotiations will resume tomorrow after intense negotiations behind closed doors following yesterday's crisis.   The African group has been meeting with developed countries late into the night, also going public stating...

On the 350 International Day of Climate Action on Saturday, Greenpeace volunteers and other organisations joined together at Windsor Park in Devonport on Auckland's North Shore, to support strong climate action. Our theme - a climate...

It was the biggest day of climate action in history- 5,200 actions in 181 countries; from Tunisia to Lisbon, from Sydney to Kenya, from the top of mountains to village slums, from churches to ski fields. Coordinated by 350.org , the...

On October 24, the International Day of Climate Action - organised by 350.org - will cover almost every country on earth. It's going to be biggest day of environmental action in history,so make sure you're part of it! As the first...

“Boys, may I introduce to you….Miss Lucy Lawless!” It’s possible that the assembly hall of nearly 1,000 young males had never had such an exciting visitor. The Warrior Princess herself had taken the stage at Wellington College. She...

We had a great response from Cantabrians yesterday with our cute little fundraiser to help get Key get to Copenhagen. It’s more than embarrassing to tell people that our elected leader doesn't think the future of life on this planet as...

One of the negotiator trackers – people who follow negotiators around to ‘keep them honest’ – came up with this wonderful gem that explains why developing countries don’t trust developed countries like New Zealand.  Annex 1 is the...

Greenpeace will go to whatever lengths it takes to save this poorly climate of ours - we'll even take our pants off. Over the weekend, 700 volunteers posed nude in a French vineyard to send a message about climate change. The human art...