Seymour is rage-baiting on the Paris Agreement and Greenpeace is urging Luxon not to bite www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
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Seymour is rage-baiting on the Paris Agreement and Greenpeace is urging Luxon not to bite www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Greenpeace agrees with Prime Minister Luxon that pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement would be the “fastest, quickest” way to “punish farmers” – and is warning the PM not to weaken New Zealand’s methane target for the very same reason 👇
The growing costs of the Climate Crisis www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Did you know that David Seymour, the guy who opposes policies to cut climate pollution in the #ClimateCrisis, is increasing the cost of your insurance by at least $200 per year to pay for…. climate disasters!👇
Greenpeace submission on the Government’s draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pub... via @Greenpeace.org.nz
Gas used by Methanex needs to be redistributed, says building industry www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
And no, we don’t need new gas. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
There is so much potential but we’re being held back by greedy energy companies and politicians without courage or vision. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
The Government has to show some vision and leadership in the building of large-scale and distributed wind and solar generation so that we can electrify EVERYTHING.
Relying on fossil fuels like gas, coal and oil is not a long-term business strategy. Use of fossil fuels has to stop. NZ’s use of gas can’t end overnight, so yes, push Methanex out and use the gas wisely while we phase it out.
There is so much potential but we’re being held back by greedy energy companies and politicians without courage or vision. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
The Government has to show some vision and leadership in the building of large-scale and distributed wind and solar generation so that we can electrify EVERYTHING.
Relying on fossil fuels like gas, coal and oil is not a long-term business strategy. Use of fossil fuels has to stop. NZ’s use of gas can’t end overnight, so yes, push Methanex out and use the gas wisely while we phase it out.
Another beachhead in the Luxon Government's #WarOnNature. Plans revealed to grant Tama Potaka sole authority over conservation land, sidelining democratic process and prioritising commercial interests. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Decades-long fight over sand mining ends with court appeal withdrawal www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/30/d...
BOOM! A years-long battle between Pākiri locals and a sand mining company has ended after the miners withdrew their High Court bid to continue dredging operations in Auckland's north. Another great win for people and planet! #GoodNews #PeoplePower #nzpol
This is cooked! We should be making it much cheaper to switch to electric and low emissions small cars — and prohibitively expensive to drive Ford Rangers etc. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
“This is the biggest flood in the history of the Punjab. The flood has affected two million people. It’s the first time that the three rivers — Sutlej, Chenab, and Ravi — have carried such high levels of water.” #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
NZ imports of palm kernel are at their highest level in ten years - further undermining @Fonterra’s claim to “grassfed” dairy products👇 A double-whammy for the climate as it drives rainforest destruction and dairy intensification. #TooManyCows www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Why our power bills so high in Aotearoa www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto..., via @greenpeace.org.nz #nzpol
There is a limit to how much we can adapt to climate change if we do not mitigate. New Orleans’ $15 Billion levees are sinking up to 7 times faster than sea levels rise #ClimateCrisis
🚨Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace organisations for hundreds of millions of dollars for solidarity with the ongoing Indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies to stop their attacks on free speech. Sign the petition: act.gp/3Hrx6Ye
Like clockwork. ⛈️🚲🫡
The tide is turning on National’s economic credibility, with a new Ipsos poll revealing Kiwis are growing restless - as National loses ground on all major issues. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
“Indigenous People will no longer be reduced to decorative roles in climate talks or NGO reports. We are not props in the environmental movement – we are its frontline defenders. And we demand to be respected and treated as such.”
Why our power bills so high in Aotearoa www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto..., via @greenpeace.org.nz #nzpol
BOOM! US court gives Māui dolphin defenders hope in fight over seafood ban newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/29/u... #nzpol #nzoverfishing #protecttheoceans
This is the Luxon Government in a nutshell. Spends $10m to fix the bell tower and fires only person who can play the bells www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #BellEnds #nzpol
There is a limit to how much we can adapt to climate change if we do not mitigate. New Orleans’ $15 Billion levees are sinking up to 7 times faster than sea levels rise #ClimateCrisis
A scientist shut himself in a chamber heated to 40 degrees in a quest to study the type of heat stress that the #ClimateCrisis is already inflicting on some people around the world. It didn't go well. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Between 1946-1958, the Marshall Islands experienced the equivalent of one Hiroshima-sized bomb every day for 20 years due to US nuclear testing. On the Int Day against Nuclear Tests we demand truth, justice, and reparations for the harm they continue to endure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0e1...
NORTH CANTERBURY: Join us on Saturday 6th September for a free screening of our documentary, Something in the Water, followed by a Q&A event focused on clean water with ECan candidates! Register here: community.greenpeace.org.nz/events/fresh... We can't wait to see you! #canterbury #nzpol #water
THIS is what the billionaire takeover looks like.
🚨Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace organisations for hundreds of millions of dollars for solidarity with the ongoing Indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies to stop their attacks on free speech. Sign the petition: act.gp/3Hrx6Ye
"Around the world, oil, gas and coal companies use an ever-widening set of tactics to crush competition and opposition, including lawsuits that seem designed to shut down environmental groups." #TimeToResist + #MakeOilHistory www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If trains are the greener option, why are we basically being punished for choosing them? The difference in trains vs planes ticket prices isn’t a coincidence, it’s the result of a transport system that rewards pollution. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
This should also be accompanied by a reduction in the cost of public transport fares.
“This is corporate blood-sucking at its most brutal”. Power company vampires bleed households dry to fund 1.4 billion dollar shareholder payout www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol
This is cooked! We should be making it much cheaper to switch to electric and low emissions small cars — and prohibitively expensive to drive Ford Rangers etc. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
“As the illogic of capitalism and colonialism fails everyone but the elite, we must learn from Indigenous ways of seeing, being, knowing, and doing.” www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #indigenouspeoplesmonth
Four things you can do in the local elections to protect Canterbury’s fresh water, via @greenpeace.org.nz #nzpol #WaterIsLife #TooManyCows
Fonterra quietly removes ‘100% grass-fed’ label from Anchor butter as Greenpeace lawsuit approaches www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Grass-fed greenwash: Govt's new grass fed standards written by Fonterra www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
This followed Greenpeace’s announcement of their lawsuit challenging the validity of the “grass-fed” logo on Anchor Butter packaging in light of Fonterra’s heavy reliance on imported Palm Kernel.
Wow. New evidence acquired under OIA by Greenpeace has revealed that dairy giant Fonterra first requested, and then helped to write, the Government’s new grass-fed standards.
I follow quite a few people I disagree with.
Secret official memo warns of damage to diplomatic ties over the New Zealand government’s failure to take climate action seriously. #nzpol #ClimateCrisis www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Join the global movement to make polluters pay: act-int.greenpeace.org/polluters-pa... #MakePollutersPay
Extraordinary piece from @simonerzim.bsky.social - searching, tough, honest and with all the receipts. Please share it with anyone you think is ready for a reckoning. The genocide is not only ongoing but accelerating and expanding, this is urgent.
Watch this space! #MarchForHumanity
The problem with throwing things away is that there is no 'away'. We have to stop the oil industry from creating throwaway single-use plastics. #GlobalPlasticsTreaty
Wars. Conflicts. Climate injustice. Neutrality is not an option. Liberty and justice are for all, no exceptions.
This discovery of a secret whale gathering point in the Southern Ocean strengthens the case for a network of global ocean sanctuaries. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Sale proceeds should be used to remediate damage done to rivers, and to help farmers shift away from intensive dairy to more plant-based regenerative organic farming — not more irrigation schemes and intensification. #TooManyCows www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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💡Fonterra has agreed to sell Anchor Butter etc. for $3.845 billion. Since we've ALL paid the price of decades of excessive pollution of our fresh water and the climate by intensive dairy, that money should now go into fixing the damage! #MakePollutersPay #nzpol #TooManyCows
Seven hours.
As the genocide in Gaza grinds on, it’s easy to feel helpless and to despair, but here are six actions you can take right now 👇
Activists taking action against what David Attenborough has rightly labelled destructive fishing / bottom trawling. Heroes. #DefendingNature
“On a range of environmental and legal measures involving forestry, the coalition Govt seems to be doing the opposite of what people and communities need.” And it’s across the board, not just forestry - the Luxon Govt works against our interests. #nzpol
After confronting Sealord and Talley’s at sea and painting OCEAN KILLER on two bottom trawlers, Greenpeace Aotearoa has taken action again. This time in Nelson to stop a Talley’s trawler leaving port. #oceankillers #protecttheoceans www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
The toxic legacy of Pacific nuclear testing. We stopped the bomb blasts, but the fight for justice is ongoing. This is a sobering read.
BREAKING Greenpeace Aotearoa activists stop Talley’s bottom trawler from leaving Nelson port, branding it an ‘ocean killer’, www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #ProtectTheOceans
Tsering Yangzom Lama, from @greenpeace.org, joins Mongabay’s podcast to explain how dominant narratives—stories shaped by existing power structures and institutions—often undergird destructive industries and favour the powerful and wealthy, and what people can do to counter such narratives.
Greenpeace Pictures of the Week - Here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace's work around the world this week. www.greenpeace.org/internationa... via @greenpeace.org
Greenpeace commits to continue its Anchor Butter PKE #Greenwash case against the Fonterra consumer brand in wake of sale to French dairy giant Lactalis: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... via @greenpeace.org.nz #TooManyCows #nzpol
Greenpeace International calls on North Dakota court to reject Energy Transfer’s attempt to avoid accountability under EU law www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Yep, it’s a fixable problem. They could stop subsidising the fossil fuel industry and start helping New Zealanders pay for the transition to electrification.
Surprise surprise. Luxon’s version of Three Waters will cost at least as much as the Labour Government’s version. #nzpol
This is a GOOD news story unless the Govt continues its unhinged obsession with fossil fuels. With vision and leadership we can leave coal, oil and gas behind us. #nzpol
Polluters broke it, you are paying for it. Despite being the architects of the climate crisis, Oil and gas corporations are not made to contribute anything toward the rebuilding costs after hurricanes, wildfires and droughts. Credits: Adrian Raeside cartoon
🚨BREAKING: Dozens of MICROSOFT employees have staged a PROTEST outside the company’s East campus after it was found their product is assisting the Israeli military. If Microsoft employees can see aiding Israel’s military is WRONG, why can’t the UK government?
Luxon Government’s promise to protect the environment is “in tatters”: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol #WarOnNature
Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay: act.gp/3RIc9dq
The ongoing heatwave in Gaza is turning flimsy displacement tents into dangerous heat traps. This is not a climate crisis. This is weather used as a weapon – a war waged not only with bombs and bullets but also with heat, thirst and slow death. bit.ly/41b0Cs8
Unprecedented danger caused by heat waves and extreme weather will continue to be the new normal if we don’t take urgent action to stop fossil fuel-driven climate change. #ClimateAction www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Greenpeace is calling on Environment Canterbury (ECan) to put an end to dairy expansion on the plains, following new data showing nitrate contamination worsening in the region.
The answer is NOT what you suspect 👀
Wow. This guy shouldn't be anywhere near our government. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol
Early signals for change as countries show willingness to rewrite unjust tax rules www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
🚨BREAKING: World leaders have been UNABLE to reach an agreement at the Global Plastics Treaty talks for limits on plastic production. Over 234 fossil fuel and plastic industry LOBBYISTS came to the talks to hijack progress. Who else thinks lobbyists should be BANNED from future talks?
Greenpeace Pictures of the Week - Here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace's work around the world this week. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateCrisis
Another free pass for the meat and dairy industry while the rest of us pay the price of their rampant pollution. Three of New Zealand's biggest emitters no longer have to reveal their climate impact www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
🚨BREAKING: 1,000 LITRES OF ‘BLOOD’ SPILLS FROM SHELL PLATFORM Greenpeace activists just installed a massive piece of protest art by world-famous artist Anish Kapoor onto a Shell gas platform - symbolising the damage oil giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.
BREAKING Greenpeace activists have installed a haunting new artwork created by legendary artist Anish Kapoor onto an active Shell platform in the remote North Sea. The work, called 'Butchered', shows 1,000 litres of blood-red liquid gushing onto a canvas fastened to the gas platform.
"I am a politician that is pro-coal, I'm a politician that's pro-fossil fuels because I don't believe in these indulgences and luxury beliefs any longer" Shane Jones, 2025 Unfit to govern. #nzpol
Disgusting! Farmers now won't even need consent to pollute waterways as government undoes RMA fresh water protection rules #TooManyCows #TooMuchInfluence www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Some GOOD NEWS to start the day! Controversial West Coast Te Kuha Mine coal mine has had its fast-track application DECLINED www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Winston's letter back to the UN apologises for Seymour's breaking of protocol and says the Regulatory Standards Bill was "a result of a Coalition Agreement between two of the three political parties that currently comprise the New Zealand Government"... www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Greenpeace air sampling in Geneva finds microplastics in urban air www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
I’m challenging Prime Minister Luxon to put New Zealand on the right side of history by imposing real and meaningful sanctions on Israel for its ongoing genocide in Gaza. Will you join me? Add your name here: petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz/ceasefire-no...
Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death. She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony. #NZOverFishing
“The only thing that seems to be trickling down from the dairy industry is the nitrate-laden urine from dairy cows that's contaminating people's drinking water in Canterbury and Southland.” www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
The value and importance of farming to NZ - especially dairy - is massively overstated, especially when you count the COST of all those millions of cows polluting rivers, drinking water and the climate. We bear those costs while Fonterra creams the profits. #TooManyCows
Greenpeace activists paint Geneva streets black to call out Big Oil’s chokehold on Global Plastic Treaty talks, demand UN kicks out fossil fuel lobbyists www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
1/ 🚨On Day 5 of #PlasticsTreaty talks, Greenpeace was outside the UN along with 🌎civil society, scientists, wastepickers, youth, Frontline and Indigenous voices from around the world, calling out governments for derailing treaty negotiations! #INC5-2
From Hiroshima to Gaza: defending peace www.greenpeace.org/internationa... via @greenpeace.org