We challenge the power of big polluters. We expose and counter corporate influence over governments. We resist those who seek to trap us in old stories, and stop us from creating a fairer and greener world.
Greenpeace Executive Director Russel Norman swimming with buoy and banner that reads "Rise Up / End Oil" in front of seismic testing vessel Amazon Warrior. © Jason Blair / Greenpeace
Greenpeace and local water activists stage a democratic occupation at ECAN in Christchurch demanding better protection for rivers. © Nigel Marple / Greenpeace
A crowd of more than 40,000 people march against the NZ Government's plans to mine thousands of hectares of prime conservation land, including National Parks. The march up Auckland's Queen St was organised by Greenpeace and a range of other groups. © Nigel Marple / Greenpeace
From climate change and plastics, to deep sea mining and overfishing - the threats facing our oceans are growing and…
Join our call on the New Zealand Government to make climate change its nuclear free moment by declaring a climate…
We know that plastics are choking our oceans, and putting the creatures that call it home at risk. We need…
Maui and Hector's dolphins are a species on the brink, and they deserve our protection. Submit on the threat management…
February 2019
New Zealand’s water quality, soil health, and biodiversity are in decline, and emissions of dangerous greenhouse gases are increasing. We have a moral obligation to future generations to curb this…
March 2011
Many of us watched dumbfounded as the oil-spill disaster in the US Gulf of Mexico unfolded in 2010. Amazingly, as the oil was gushing from BP’s well, Energy and Resources…
May 2005
Coal is the dirtiest of all fuels. From mining to coal cleaning, from transportation to electricity generation to disposal, coal releases numerous toxic pollutants into the air, water and land.…
On 31 July, people in more than 25 cities are publicly holding the oil industry accountable for causing climate anxiety, climate breakdown, climate disaster, and climate emergency in communities around…
I’m writing this from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, somewhere in the North Sea… A few days ago I completely unexpectedly found myself on an all-nighter from London to Scotland.…
On the evening of Sunday 9th June, a team of Greenpeace activists drew up alongside the rig as it was preparing to leave Scotland’s Cromarty Firth. They scaled the rig,…
As electric vehicles and cheap solar panels cut into the demand for petroleum-based fuels, an increasingly desperate oil industry has been banking on plastics to drive future demand growth. Here are three…
Flooding in Japan, unprecedented monsoons in India, a nearly 30% increase in rainfallthroughout the Americas and 40% across Europe. Africa is seeing deadly droughtsacross Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Australia, Greece, Sweden, Portugal and the…
