The NZ Govt has admitted that new methane targets do not align with goals to keep global warming below 1.5C - a limit set in place to prevent catastrophic climate change. The move breaches both international law and free trade agreements with the EU and the UK. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/c... #nzpol

I thought I’d have a go at answering the question: what’s the flow on effect on emissions budgets from the methane cuts? The answer was worse than I had anticipated www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Your summary of the shitfuckery this Government has just announced: - Big Dairy doesn't have to pay for its emissions, despite being the country's worst climate polluter - Ambition on methane emissions reductions has been slashed in favour of business as usual. #nzpol

PRESS RELEASE: Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #climate

In what can only be described as an act of Trumpian stupidity and outright climate denial, NZ's government has weakened our 2050 climate change targets and permanently excluded the country's biggest climate polluter from paying for their pollution. #nzpol #climate More info in thread 🧵

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Official UN finding: #Israel has committed #genocide in the #Gaza Strip www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Simon Watts is pre-emptively turning the blame for lack of climate action onto Fonterra and the dairy industry, ahead of announcing a new agricultural methane target that is widely expected to be *weaker* than the existing one. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/10/c...

Unless it's literally your job, you never need to watch videos of people being killed. It harms you and doesn't help them.

Unbox the materials for our Vote Clean Drinking Water campaign with us! We're calling on all Environment Canterbury election candidates to defend fresh water - and we need your help! To order flyers, posters, stickers, and fence signs, head to our website 👉 greenpeace.nz/votewater #cleanwater

Our new journal paper has hit the front pages and got wide coverage on the airwaves this morning. The paper critically assesses “temperature neutrality” as a basis for Ireland’s long-term climate target. We find it amounts to backsliding on climate ambition and locks in food system unfairness.

The climate advice they didn't want you to see. [finally, six days before I finish up, I get to use that headline formula 😅] www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

PRESS RELEASE: ECAN study confirms Canterbury nitrate issue escalating www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #water

Meat and dairy companies are cooking the climate - but now, the Government has let them off the hook for reporting their emissions 🤦 These climate polluters can try to hide the numbers, but they can't hide the consequences of their climate emissions. Take action now: greenpeace.nz/b95joo #nzpol

Agricultural companies never had to pay for their methane emissions in NZ, but they used to be required to report the totals to the EPA. No longer. For some companies, it was the only way to get even a crude estimate. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

PRESS RELEASE: Academics warn Luxon’s approach to climate targets risks worsening global hunger www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #climate

As if cutting funding for kids' lunches and worsening the cost of living so you've got to pay $12 for a block of butter wasn't enough, academics today warned that NZ PM Chris Luxon's approach to setting climate targets risks worsening global hunger! #nzpol #climatechange

When Fed Farmers say: We want NZ to stay in the Paris Agreement but we'll fight methane targets & emissions pricing... What they mean is: We want the economic benefits of being seen to be pro-climate but we won't do anything to contribute to climate action. www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/r...

PRESS RELEASE: Wildly inaccurate figures used to justify Shane Jones' $200 million fossil fuel slush fund www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #climate

Ever wondered why coral is so important? Here's a blog I wrote which conveniently answers that exact question! www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... #nzpol #oceans #environment

Shane Jones told the energy industry this week in Singapore that he will open up the ENTIRETY of NZ's oceans and land to oil and gas exploration. This is blatant climate denial. #nzpol #climate

Scientists hit back over Prime Minister's 'worthies' insult

Thinking of Greta Thunberg and the other brave people aboard the relief ship Madleen. And of course the starving kids they’re trying to help Justice is justice is justice

#Journalists covering #climate, #methane or #agriculture: we're running an exclusive zoom briefing on June 10 to give you topline info on NZ dairy emissions & the upcoming new (globally relevant) methane target. We'll also go into industry lobbying on GWP*/no additional warming. DM me for details!

Waking up to the Elon/Tr*mp drama is like a reward for everyone who's been chronically online over the last six months

NZ PM Chris Luxon said today in Parliament that he hasn't even bothered to read the letter he received from 26 leading climate scientists. These scientists are calling on Luxon to take action on methane emissions, rather than using dodgy accounting to pretend they don't exist. #nzpol #climate

Possibly for the first time in Luxon’s business and political career he’s made the front page of the Financial Times - for trying to greenwash dairy agribusiness

The NZ govt's & livestock sector's reactions to our open letter both seem to refuse Paris-aligned targets, which we & their own Climate Commission advised them to follow. Instead, they made a new panel, which crafted industry-friendly advice, ie 'no additional warming' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Soooo the NZ Govt is now being criticised by internationally acclaimed climate scientists in the @financialtimes.com. Why? Because Luxon & co are manipulating maths to hide NZ's grossly oversized methane emissions instead of taking action to cut #climate pollution. www.ft.com/content/2ea6... #nzpol

“As the historian Alison Bashford points out, concerns about overpopulation are often not really about there being too many people but too many of the wrong kind of people.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Federated Farmers want to 'go to battle' over methane targets, we'll fight back. These selfish lobbyists represent NZ's most polluting industry, and now they want to rewrite history so they don't have to reduce their climate pollution. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #toomanycows #nzpol

Kia kaha to the climate protectors taking action on the Denniston Plateau right now! They're ordinary people doing extraordinary things, and we salute them. Greenpeace adds support to Denniston coal mining protest www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

People are tired of being shut out while foreign corporations backed by banks like ANZ push us deeper into climate breakdown. We're not standing for it any longer. In fact we're sitting. In a coal bucket. Shutting down the biggest coal mine in NZ.

Deeply concerning to see that nitrate contamination in Ashburton, New Zealand, is putting babies at risk of blue baby syndrome. Environment Canterbury and the Luxon-led Government must take action. #nzpol #freshwater

Fonterra markets its Anchor butter as ‘grass-fed’, but it's a deception. Fonterra dairy cows are fed almost two million tonnes of palm kernel imported from Southeast Asia every year. #TooManyCows

There is magic in life on earth: rainforests , orangutans , birds of paradise. But they are being fed into the chipper to feed dairy cows on palm kernel. Let protect life on earth and not leave a wasteland for generations to come. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

BREAKING Greenpeace activists in Taranaki are stopping the unloading of palm kernel sourced from Indonesian rainforests www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

In Taranaki today, port workers have shut the palm kernel storage shed doors and stopped work. No PKE is being uploaded while our team is in place, and they have no intention to leave any time soon. More here: greenpeace.nz/palm-kernel-...

No public record exists of proceedings a US court relied on to deliver a startling $NZ1.2billion decision against Greenpeace

Friendly (well, not-so-friendly) reminder that the intensive livestock industry has known for DECADES that it's harming the climate and has been trying to downplay it - just like the oil and gas industry did. sentientmedia.org/beef-industry-climate-impact/ #climatechange #toomanycows #agriculture

This is actually a disgraceful example of the executive overriding the judiciary - a system that exists to provide checks and balances to political power and enable everyday NZers to seek redress for harm done to them (including by polluting industries).

Independent lawyers monitoring the case say Greenpeace was denied a fair defense, with a jury made up of fossil fuel workers and a judge unfamiliar with key constitutional issues. buff.ly/fmn0eFa

First David Seymour says he wants to pull out of the Paris Agreement. Now Winston has said the same. The National Party-led NZ Govt claims to support the Paris Agreement, but when National's two coalition partners want to pull out, how can we believe them? #nzpol #climate

Love it when journalists hold politicians to account like this👇

Politicians will say "Law based on property rights" but what they really mean is "If I own it why can't I do what I want with it?" This was also once said to people who had the audacity to oppose slavery.

Luxon’s Trumpian Govt shouldn’t be anywhere near legislation as important as the RMA. New law “based on property rights” … 🙄 On current form it’ll just be a long-winded version of ‘forget the biodiversity crisis, if you own it, do what you want’. #nzpol

I briefly interrupt your feed of constant US-based doom and/or gloom to remind you that in other countries, there's some pretty cool stuff happening on the food / agriculture / nature / climate policy front at the national level, and that Denmark recently took a step that could inspire others.

More information here www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

New Zealand’s energy minister’s justification for staying in Paris Agreement here is very unenthusiastic. Says they can’t leave without jeopardising trade deals with Europe www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/min...