Greenpeace Aotearoa
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AUCKLAND CITY — Greenpeace is urging Fonterra not to ignore the important discussions about the links between sustainability, climate change, and dairying that will be taking place at this week’s World Dairy Summit.
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Fonterra has apparently ‘pulled the plug’ on its Facebook page, rather than answer the questions being submitted to it by members of the public on the company’s use of palm kernel expeller (PKE).
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The latest edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics shows significant separation between companies that are failing to keep their environmental commitments and those that are making significant gains in phasing out toxic chemicals, increasing energy efficiency, and making it easier for consumers to recycle older products.
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Oil-smeared' people walked through central Wellington today to protest Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee's reckless determination to dig and drill for more dirty fossil fuels while ignoring the impacts on climate change.
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NZ dairy giant Fonterra's industrial dairying approach is driving production beyond the limits.
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None of Canada’s major supermarket chains will be selling orange roughy after leading retailers dropped the species due to sustainability concerns, Greenpeace reports.
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Greenpeace says a box locked into a lift at the Fonterra building during this morning’s protest played a sound recording and posed no threat.
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Greenpeace is condemning dairy giant Fonterra’s weak ‘claim’ that “it believes” its palm kernel animal feed comes from sustainable sources.
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Following new evidence, Greenpeace demands that Fonterra and the Government put an end to New Zealand's importation of palm kernel grown on areas of destroyed rainforest.
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As the deadline for submissions on Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee’s Draft Energy Strategy draws to a close (at 5pm Thursday), Greenpeace is telling the Government that it is not too late to embrace the global Clean Energy revolution – in fact the timing’s perfect.
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Greenpeace is calling on the New Zealand Government to support a plan to make the Pacific's tuna fisheries sustainable following further reports of declining stocks.
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New Zealand must stop fishing for Antarctic toothfish in the Ross Sea says Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace says a plan to increase the catch limits of several bottom trawled New Zealand fish species highlights how out of touch the Ministry of Fisheries is with international markets.
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Following Greenpeace UK's successful action against BP's petrol stations in London (see below), Greenpeace is reminding the New Zealand Government that, like BP, it needs to move beyond the prevailing 19th century mindset regards fossil fuels.
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Greenpeace volunteers covered themselves in 'oil' today to send a strong message to the Government to stop its plans for the drilling of new deep water oil wells off New Zealand's coast.
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Greenpeace today welcomed the Government's about-face on Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee's plans to allow the mining of this country's most precious Schedule 4 protected public conservation lands.
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Greenpeace says it is disappointing governments have failed to break the IWC deadlock over the future of the world’s whales.
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A Greenpeace activist facing prison for saving whales is calling on leaders to take political risks to rescue the International Whaling Commission and whales ahead of the annual meeting which starts in Morocco today.
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Greenpeace New Zealand congratulates New Zealand’s Climate Change ambassador Adrian Macey on his election to vice-chair of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations.
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Governments investing in a greener future have the potential to massively cut global carbon emissions and create millions of jobs but New Zealand risks missing this opportunity, says Greenpeace.
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In the midst of one of the worst oil spills in history the Government’s offshore oil exploration announcement sounds like a bad joke, says Greenpeace.
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The world’s largest container shipping company, Maersk, refuses to ship a number of at-risk marine species including several caught by New Zealand fisheries, reports Greenpeace.
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Version 15 of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics (1) sees Samsung, Toshiba and Dell, all picking up penalty points for backtracking on their self proposed timelines to eliminate some of the worst toxic substances from their products.
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The Government would be wise to chalk up its schedule 4 mining plans as an idea it got horribly wrong, says Greenpeace in its submission on the proposals.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A public rally in front of parliament next Wednesday, June 2, will deliver thousands of petitions urging the Government to save whales, not whaling.
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Today’s budget confirms the Government has completely failed to understand that New Zealand’s economic future is intrinsically tied to our environment, says Greenpeace.
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According to the most substantive poll on the mining issue to date, the Key Government’s mining plans are opposed by 30% of those who voted National in at the last election (1).
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Greenpeace activists have blocked the coal depot of Fonterra’s Clandeboye factory near Timaru, using a truckload of alternative fuel, saying the company is damaging the climate by burning coal when cleaner solutions exist.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Over 40,000 people turned out today to a march against the Government’s mining plans.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A coalition of environment groups including Greenpeace, has announced a public march against the Government’s mining plans on May 1 in Auckland.
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Greenpeace says the Government must stop fishing orange roughy, after two more major international retailers confirmed they’ve dropped the fish from sale due to sustainability concerns.
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Greenpeace says the kind of international backlash seen today in the Economist magazine (1) demonstrates that John Key’s Government is putting the New Zealand economy at risk with its 19th century economic thinking.
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The New Zealand Government’s support for a proposal that could usher in a new era of commercial whaling has met with fierce opposition from animal welfare and environmental groups.
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The New Zealand Government is pushing the world’s bluefin tuna to extinction, says Greenpeace.
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Food and beverage company Nestle has overnight suspended direct contracts with its main supplier of palm oil, after a Greenpeace report was released implicating the company in the destruction of rainforest, which is pushing orangutans to the brink of extinction.
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Nestlé is using palm oil from destroyed Indonesian rainforests and peatlands, in products like Kit Kat, pushing already endangered orang-utans to the brink of extinction and accelerating climate change.
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A mock weigh-in of a six metre replica whale ‘caught’ by John Key has appeared in front of his electorate office with Greenpeace calling on him to reject any deal that would legitimise commercial whaling.
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The Government’s assurances of "boutique", "surgical" mining in areas with low conservation value seem to have disappeared down a mine shaft, says Greenpeace.
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The New Zealand Government’s sell-out at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) could effectively see a return to commercial whaling, says Greenpeace.
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AUCKLAND — The New Zealand Government’s sell-out at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) could effectively see a return to commercial whaling, says Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace today called on a panel hearing an application by AgResearch to put human and other genes into a broad range of animals to reject the application and terminate the hearing immediately.
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A fish species about to be added to the New Zealand quota management system (QMS) has been dropped from sale by three of Canada’s eight major supermarket chains in the past year due to sustainability concerns, says Greenpeace (1).
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Greenpeace is calling on the Japanese ambassador to ensure the fair trial of two Greenpeace activists, following a UN report criticising Japan for breaching human rights during the pair’s detention.
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Greenpeace is calling for the closure of the southern bluefin tuna fishery andthe immediate withdrawal of a “scandalous plan” to increase New Zealand’s quota for the critically endangered fish (1).
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Greenpeace is warning the Government it could face civil disobedience and an international backlash if it proceeds with mining on conservation land.
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Greenpeace today welcomed the positive tone of John Key’s opening speech to the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen (1) and urged him to back his words with a fresh approach to the negotiations.
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The target ranking system (1) John Key has been relying on (2) to claim New Zealand’s placed well at the climate talks in Copenhagen has just changed the ranking of New Zealand’s target to “inadequate”- the worst ranking possible.
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Greenpeace has welcomed the announcement by Spicers Papers New Zealand that it is phasing out paper products from Indonesia due to public concerns about environmental and sustainability issues.
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New Zealand is bringing a bad attitude to the climate talks in Copenhagen, thinking it can bully small and vulnerable states which are already suffering in the front line of climate change.
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French Polynesia — Greenpeace has slammed the refusal of Asian distant water fishing nations Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan to agree effective new measures to urgently halt the decline of tuna stocks at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC).
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The New Zealand delegating team in Copenhagen has the chance to help shape the course of human history over the next two weeks and it must not waste it, says Greenpeace.
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A call to protect the Pacific Ocean's rapidly dwindling tuna stocks has been made to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC).
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A second New Zealand company has been exposed for its role in Indonesian rainforest destruction.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A human chain of protesters piled sacks labelled ‘Fonterra palm kernel’ and ‘Fonterra coal’ outside Fonterra’s corporate headquarters today in protest of greenhouse gas emissions caused by the dairy giant’s intensive farming practices.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Greenpeace public protest will bring climate crimes to Fonterra's door.
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Actress Lucy Lawless and top climate scientist Jim Salinger will visit Parliament today to present Prime Minister John Key with nearly $5,000 to help get him to the Copenhagen climate talks in December.
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A major review of Japanese government spending could spell the end to whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, according to Greenpeace, after the review committee proposed massive cuts in subsidies to a body which funds the so-called scientific research programme.
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An international team of Greenpeace activists, in the heart of Indonesia's threatened rainforests, has called on United States President Barack Obama to take urgent action on climate change.
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Greenpeace is supporting calls to tighten regulations on bottom trawling by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation in Auckland this week.
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With the crucial Copenhagen Climate summit approaching rapidly, IT heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft and IBM are still hesitating to speak up on the urgent need for emissions reductions, the latest Greenpeace Cool IT leaderboard reveals.
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Greenpeace’s oceans mascot, Sad Fish, will visit New Plymouth next week as part of a nine week nationwide tour to safeguard the future of New Zealand fisheries.
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AUCKLAND — New Zealand’s involvement in the palm industry and rainforest destruction will be the focus of a public meeting in Auckland next week.
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Greenpeace has renewed its call for John Key and dairy giant Fonterra to stop the import of palm based animal feed because of its devastating climate impact, by painting a large slogan reading “Fonterra climate crime” on a shipment in the Port of Taranaki.
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Cook Islands — Greenpeace today called for the arrest of the captain of the Japanese ship Koyo Maru 3, which was caught fishing illegally in the Cook Islands.
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Norway's newly re-elected Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has just announced a 40% emission reductions target at the UN climate talks in Bangkok, upping the pressure on developed countries like New Zealand to do the same.
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Encouraging news from HP and Apple shows their positive response to Greenpeace’s campaign for greener electronics.
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John Key’s Government today admitted that production of palm kernel animal feed is helping destroy Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests.
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TAURANGA — Greenpeace activists removed by police from blockading a shipment of palm kernel animal feed at Tauranga port say their actions have highlighted Fonterra’s climate crime and are continuing their calls to John Key to force the multinational to stop future imports.
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TAURANGA — Greenpeace activists have blocked a shipment of palm kernel animal feed from Indonesia, entering Tauranga Port and destined for Fonterra dairy farms.
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By using taxes to subsidise the polluters, New Zealand is going backwards while the rest of the world goes forward, the Green Party said today.
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Kiwi comedian and actor Rhys Darby has released a poem on YouTube, calling for New Zealand to reduce its emissions by 40 per cent by 2020.
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The continued use of highly toxic substances in game consoles has been highlighted in three satirical videos released on the popular Kotaku gaming site.
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On the eve of the 24th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing, Greenpeace has announced work is about to start on a purpose-built Rainbow Warrior III, incorporating the latest in green-marine technology.
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Leading Australian wine writer Max Allen and award-winning winemaker from Margaret River, Vanya Cullen, have joined Greenpeace to launch the first Alcoholic Drinks Edition of the True Food Guide to genetically engineered (GE) free shopping.
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In Sydney on Tuesday July 7th, Greenpeace is launching the first True Food Guide Alcoholic Drinks edition, the only shopping guide for genetically engineered (GE) free alcoholic drinks.
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Three of the world’s largest PC companies are failing in their commitments to phase out toxic chemicals in their products according to the the latest edition of Greenpeace’s 'Guide to Greener Electronics' (1) released today.
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Claims today by New Zealand supermarkets that they are doing enough to ensure that the seafood they sell is from sustainably managed fisheries just don't stack up, says Greenpeace.
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Government claims today that New Zealand’s oceans are “teeming with fish” and that the quota management system (QMS) is working are rubbish, says Greenpeace (1).
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Supermarkets risk a backlash from concerned customers if they dont stop selling unsustainably-caught fish, Greenpeace is warning.
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The latest edition of Greenpeace’s ‘Guide to Greener Electronics’ ranking (1) shows a disappointing slump from some major companies in the toxics category, but an overall improvement on climate change criteria.
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Greenpeace today launched its online Good Wood Guide together with an updated ranking of outdoor furniture retailers.
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Now in its tenth edition, the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics shows that most consumer electronics companies have been slow to get serious about climate change.
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Auckland, 17 September 2008 - Five leading brands are making significant progress in greening their electronics products, Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics released today reveals (1).
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Based on information available on Apple's website (1), it seems the company known for innovation has missed an opportunity to reinvent its new 3G iPhone in green.
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New projections of future climate change in New Zealand are a timely reminder of the urgency of strong climate policy, says Greenpeace.
A guidance manual released today by the Ministry for the Environment provides the latest projections of likely impacts of climate change on New Zealand, and advice for councils on tackling the effects.209 views
Genesis Energy and Greenpeace will face off in the Supreme Court tomorrow, in a case that could have major implications for climate change in New Zealand.
Last December, a Court of Appeal ruling removed a crucial legal control on polluters’ greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand.459 views
Greenpeace says it's encouraged to see Federated Farmers President Charlie Pederson finally going in to bat for strong climate policy in New Zealand.Â
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Nationals attempt to delay the emissions trading scheme (ETS) and undermine a partial ban on thermal power stations is unacceptable, and a strong indication the party puts big business backers ahead of tackling climate change, says Greenpeace.Â
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Greenpeace welcomes today's Green Party announcement that all state houses will be properly insulated within five years but warned initiatives like this could be at risk if big polluters get their way.
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The National Party is finally revealing its true colours on climate change and it’s clear it’s the party for big business polluters, says Greenpeace.
National is trying to get rid of a 10-year partial ban on new thermal generation, which is contained in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation currently before Select Committee.251 views
Big business and policy-makers must not succumb to the elusive promise of carbon capture and storage to solve the climate crisis, says Greenpeace in a major new report.
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Greenpeace says it's a sign of how desperate climate sceptics are that they've used the names of eminent New Zealand scientists to falsely back their cause.
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Dont subsidise polluting industries at the expense of ordinary New Zealanders and the planet.Â
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Delaying the transport component of the emissions trading scheme won't help householders, but it will help trucking and oil companies, says Greenpeace.Â
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New Zealanders will pay through their taxes for the Governments capitulation to big business, warns Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace is accusing the dairy sector of environmental irresponsibility after the Green Party revealed the sector is contributing to tropical rainforest destruction by importing huge quantities of palm kernel for cattle feed.
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Greenpeace today welcomed the release of the Green Partys six-point plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal, and urged Labour and National to support it.Â
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TAUPO — Greenpeace has today revealed the extent of climate-damaging dairy conversion in New Zealand with an activity in the central North Island in which 30 volunteers are currently replanting over 1000 trees on land cleared for dairy farming.Â
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Renowned political cartoonist Malcolm Evans (1) will do a live billboard drawing in central Wellington today, as part of calls for stronger climate policies from New Zealands political leaders.
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