Greenpeace Aotearoa
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Greenpeace exists because this fragile Earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
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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LYTTELTON — Greenpeace says it's pleased to have highlighted the contribution New Zealand is making to climate change through a coal shipment action in the Port of Lyttelton today.
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LYTTELTON — Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior has blocked a shipment of export coal from leaving the Port of Lyttelton.
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AUCKLAND — This morning Greenpeace launched a giant, planet-replica hot air balloon from Bastion Point in Auckland, with the wording: “Target Climate Change.” The activity ties in with the start of a six week ship tour aboard the iconic Rainbow Warrior, which is currently in port in Auckland.
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Greenpeace has used a hard-hitting report into the Government's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to launch a six-week, nation-wide ship tour aboard the iconic Rainbow Warrior.
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Iconic Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior will kick off a six-week tour of New Zealand in Auckland early next month.
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It will be interesting to see if National’s Energy Strategy, due to be presented to the party’s caucus this evening, contains any reference to “sexy coal”, says Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace and the Indonesia Human Rights Committee today released the 'Guide to Forest Friendly Outdoor Furniture Retailers' (1) which shows that the majority of outdoor timber furniture sold in New Zealand is contributing to the destruction of tropical forests in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
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Environmental problems caused by New Zealand’s export industries of farming and fishing are damaging New Zealand’s clean green image, a groundbreaking Government report revealed today.
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The latest Greenpeace GE Free Food Guide reflects a strong ongoing non-GE position from New Zealand food companies and an unprecedented anti-GE stance from Australasia’s largest food company.
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 At a press conference in Tokyo yesterday afternoon the administrative vice-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Toshiro Shirasu told reporters that the whaling fleet has not resumed hunting because Greenpeace is following their fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary (1).
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