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  • Drone shot of canoes and a vaka with a floating banner that reads Protect Our Ocean.
    Story
    Oceans Seabed Mining Nuclear

    Deep sea mining not the key to Epeli Hau’ofa’s dream of Pacific excellence

    There’s a fight for the future happening in the Pacific Ocean. It’s a critical battle over deep sea mining. The fate of my parents’ homeland, Samoa, and the broader Pacific…

    Aigagalefili Fepulea’i - Tapua’i •
    8 November 2024
    4 min read
  • A billboard reads Toitū Te Tiriti, Toitū Te Taiao - Greenpeace
    Story
    AboutUs

    Here’s why Greenpeace will join the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti

    We all have a responsibility to defend Te Tiriti and protecting Te Tiriti is also entwined with the Greenpeace mission to protect nature and peace. That’s why we’ll be attending and supporting the nationwide hīkoi next week to protest the Treaty Principles Bill.

    Russel Norman •
    8 November 2024
    3 min read
  • Story
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Greenpeace opposition to the Hawke’s Bay Water Trust

    The Central Hawke’s Bay District Council proposal to establish a trust to hold the consents for the Ruataniwha dam – renamed the Tukituki Water Storage Scheme – is of grave concern.

    Will Appelbe •
    25 October 2024
    1 min read
  • A billboard shows Christopher Luxon, David Seymour and Winston Peters with the words: Climate Extremists
    Press release
    Climate Change

    New UN climate report highlights climate extremism of Luxon Government

    The latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report has warned that if countries do not commit to rapid action to cut rising climate pollution emissions, the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global…

    Russel Norman •
    25 October 2024
  • Cow & calf in mud on a Southland intensive winter grazing farm. Photograph captured by Matt Coffey in Winter 2021
    Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Luxon rolling in the mud with Fed Farmers lobbyists

    Greenpeace says Luxon “rolling in mud” with pro-pollution Federated Farmers after anti-nature Resource Management Freshwater Amendment Bill passes into law.

    Will Appelbe •
    24 October 2024
  • Bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Mikura, Japan, Pacific Ocean.
    Story
    Oceans Plastics

    Microplastic pollution is everywhere, even in the exhaled breath of dolphins

    Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One.

    Leslie Hart and Miranda Dziobak •
    21 October 2024
    3 min read
  • Rangiora nitrate testing event
    Press release
    Freshwater Health

    Greenpeace raises alarm over looming public health crisis in Canterbury

    Greenpeace is again raising the alarm over what it has labelled a ‘public health crisis’  in Canterbury after high nitrate levels found in drinking water supplies.

    Will Appelbe •
    21 October 2024
  • Greenpeace live: the methane moment
    Videos
    Climate Change Food&Farming

    Greenpeace Live: Why methane matters

    In this episode, we talk about the recent action at Fonterra’s milk processing factory in Te Rapa, dive deeper into why methane emissions are such a big problem and such…

    Greenpeace Aotearoa •
    18 October 2024
  • Given that nearly half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, the main source of which is methane from the livestock sector, it is imperative for methane emission reduction to occur in this sector in order for New Zealand to achieve its climate commitments under the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is our roadmap for a livable future for our children and grandchildren. Because climate change is truly an existential crisis, it requires all nations to do their part. Honouring our commitments to the Paris Agreement is essential if we are to avoid catastrophic impacts on our homes, health, livelihoods, critical infrastructure and ability to grow food. It is an obligation we have to future generations both here in Aotearoa New Zealand, in our neighbouring Pacific and across the Earth. The advice you provide in your report to the Government will inform our targets under the Paris Agreement. It will make or break our commitments. Our children’s future is in your hands. We are therefore very concerned that the Panel’s terms of reference explicitly require that our methane targets be reviewed in line with “no additional warming” as this would seriously undermine the Paris Agreement and climate action more generally. The concept of “no additional warming” is related to the model known as Global Warming Potential* (or GWP* for short). While GWP* can be a useful tool to track methane emissions variations over shorter timescales and to differentiate its impacts with longer-lived emissions, climate scientists have warned against its use as a metric to inform policies and mitigation actions corresponding to specific emission reduction targets for a number of reasons. Drawing from this scientific advice, we summarise our key concerns in this short submission under the following headings: Lowering climate ambition at the expense of the Paris Agreement Potential associated breaches of trade agreements We also provide a bibliography of references to scientific articles raising concerns about GWP*, which we encourage the Panel to go through in detail to inform your advice.
    Publication
    Climate Change Food&Farming

    Greenpeace Submission to the Methane Review Panel on the Review of Methane Science and Target

    Given that nearly half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, the main source of which is methane from the livestock sector, it is imperative for methane emission reduction to occur in this sector in order for New Zealand to achieve its climate commitments under the Paris Agreement.

    Amanda Larsson •
    15 October 2024
  • Fonterra methane cooks the climate
    Press release
    Climate Change

    Greenpeace activists scale Fonterra’s Te Rapa dairy factory in dramatic climate protest

    Greenpeace activists have scaled Fonterra’s Te Rapa Dairy Factory, unfurling a 160 square metre banner reading ‘Fonterra’s methane cooks the climate.’

    Sinéad O'Flynn •
    9 October 2024
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