The Luxon Government wants to remove GE safeguards and let GMOs free. Greenpeace isn’t the only one who is ringing the alarm bells. #Food&Farming #Biodiversity #Health

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

The New Zealand Government's move to weaken methane emissions reduction targets risks our trade relationships, reputation, and puts us all at risk of unmanageable consequences from climate change, argues Professor James Renwick of Victoria University www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/10... #nzpol #climate

The Luxon Government is embarrassing NZ again. Cutting methane emissions now is the emergency handbrake we need to prevent dangerous climate change, but our Govt has let the dairy industry off the hook for its massive methane emissions. More info 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #nzpol

PRESS RELEASE Today marks two years since the 2023 election. The environmental cost of the Luxon Government’s war on nature since then has been staggering and is growing by the week. #nzpol #climatechange www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

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

What if polluters could demand a payout – just for being told to stop polluting? That’s exactly what the Govt is considering putting into the new RMA replacement laws. A fringe idea called “regulatory takings” which is really just a polluters get paid plan. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

GROUND ZERO FONTERRA We brought the nitrate emergency from Canterbury to the corporate offices where it began!

The Luxon government's power plan will do nothing for hard-pressed households and businesses struggling with ever-higher power prices. #ClimateCrisis #SolariseNZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The electricity market is a rort. Consumers pay, gentailers profit, and the Government collects. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

PRESS RELEASE: A modified Fonterra farm sign was installed outside Canterbury’s first complete dairy conversion this morning. No new dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency. #nzpol #TooManyCows #UnderOneNitrate www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

There must be NO dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency. More than 100,000 New Zealanders could be exposed to harmful levels of nitrate. This article reports that Canterbury is the worst. We’re calling on Environment Canterbury to end dairy expansion NOW.

PRESS RELEASE: Luxon's Trump-like energy policy heads down a fossil fuel dead end www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

Families are cutting back on heating, small businesses are struggling to pay their bills, and manufacturers are shutting their doors – while the Prime Minister plays political games. #nzpol ##ClimateCrisis #SolariseNZ www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

PRESS RELEASE: International organisations condemn ‘no additional warming’ approach as NZ methane target decision looms www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

18,000 more dairy cows in Canterbury? No thanks! There should be no new dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency. We're calling on Environment Canterbury to end dairy expansion - sign the petition! greenpeace.nz/5ozub9 #nzpol

The only thing trickling down from the dairy industry to NZ's rural communities is #nitrate contamination and E. coli. maps.greenpeace.org/maps/aotearo...

PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace is calling on prospective investors “not to bankroll ocean destruction” by investing in wannabe seabed mining company, Manuka Resources, as they list on the NZ stock exchange today. #nzpol #BanSeabedMining #Oceans www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

PRESS RELEASE: Four ocean advocates sentenced in court, after locking down the Wellington HQ of the mining industry lobbying firm Straterra (now the New Zealand Minerals Council) in September 2024. #nzpol #BanSeabedMining #Oceans www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

PRESS RELEASE: Luxon Government joins Trump's Climate Stupidity Club www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

PRESS RELEASE - $26b in dirty money: Fonterra cashes in after contaminating drinking water www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

What would Miles Hurrell, CEO of Fonterra, call the nitrate emergency? A business model. Watch Miles Hurrell explain how the Luxon Government’s new proposed law is about to help him and other polluters cash in by trashing the environment, even more. #nzpol

Canterbury is the 1st place in the Pacific - and the 2nd in the world - to declare a nitrate emergency over drinking water contamination. But what is a nitrate emergency? Watch this video, then sign our petition for clean drinking water now! greenpeace.nz/5ozub9

We're bringing our documentary Something in the Water to Auckland on October 9th! Join us at 11 Akiraho Street, Mt Eden at 6pm for a free viewing of this story of New Zealanders fighting to defend fresh water. community.greenpeace.org.nz/events/freshwater-documentary-screening-and-q-a-auckland

A new report says Trans-Tasman Resources' seabed mining application contains "outdated information, internal inconsistencies and unproven technology". #BanSeabedMining #Oceans newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/24/f...

In Canterbury? Check out our scorecard for the local elections highlighting which Environment Canterbury candidates have committed to protecting fresh water if elected! It featured in yesterday's edition of the Press, or you can check it out on our website: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... #nzpol

Environment Canterbury has declared a nitrate emergency - but what does that mean for the region? Greenpeace freshwater campaigner @willappelbe.bsky.social explains 👇 www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... #nzpol #cleanwaternow

The historic Global Ocean Treaty will enter into force after it reached the milestone of 60 ratifications over the weekend. Here's what that means 👇 www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

Environment Canterbury has declared a nitrate emergency over drinking water pollution worries. The intensive dairy industry has contaminated lakes, rivers, and drinking water with unsafe levels of nitrate - putting rural communities' health at risk. Image credit: Sharon Murdoch / Stuff #nzpol

Thousands took part in last Saturday's rally calling on the government to impose sanctions on Israel. Members of the Greenpeace family explain why they went to the rally. #freepalestine greenpeace.nz/qmngkw

🚨 Israel's full ground offensive launched on #Gaza comes after weeks of airstrikes reduced entire neighbourhoods to rubble. Hundreds of thousands remain trapped. Famine has already been declared. There is nowhere safe to go.

PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace applauds ECan for declaring nitrate emergency, calls for candidates to pledge real action www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

Today we delivered nitrate-contaminated drinking water to those responsible for the pollution. 50+ people rallied outside Environment Canterbury to demand clean water now - because ECan is failing in its responsibility to protect drinking water from pollution. Image: Francis Streisel/Greenpeace

PRESS RELEASE: Cantabrians say “enough” - Nitrate-polluted tap water returned to Environment Canterbury #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

Earlier this year, Greenpeace Aotearoa set out on an exciting mission to survey deep sea life in the High Seas of the Tasman between Aotearoa and Australia What we found was beyond what we could have imagined Full version mini doco here 💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Eq...

More than 40 percent of voters think New Zealand should recognise a Palestinian state, according to the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll. #freepalestine www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

PRESS RELEASE Greenpeace is calling the Government’s “tough on crime” rhetoric a complete sham after official documents reveal companies repeatedly breaking food safety laws are escaping prosecution. #nzpol #FoodandFarming www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

We talked to people on the street about bottom trawling. Did you know NZ is the only country still trawling the High Seas of the South Pacific? Watch here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=b51-...

Thousands turned out in central Auckland on Saturday calling on the New Zealand government to impose sanctions on Israel. Stop the genocide in Gaza. Demand our Government to take a stand. Email the Prime Minister now 👇 greenpeace.nz/c1dm9f #freepalestine🇵🇸

PRESS RELEASE MBIE’s latest quarterly energy report shows electricity prices remain stubbornly high, coal imports increasing and the Luxon government fumbling the ball on the energy crisis. #nzpol #ClimateCrisis #SolariseNZ

The Global Sumud Flotilla is a courageous act of solidarity with Palestinians who are struggling to survive under the Israeli government’s cruel and unlawful aid blockade, ongoing genocide and man-made famine in Gaza The flotilla must be protected #stopthegenocide

How the NZ Food Safety agency downplays pesticide residue results, and then does nothing to enforce the law #foodandfarming #health

It means Lactalis has bought a fight with @greenpeace.org.nz Greenwash case still hanging over Fonterra’s consumer brands in wake of sale to French dairy giant www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace to bring Canterbury's contaminated water to Environment Canterbury www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

We will not let billionaires feast on the forest. Our message is loud and clear: #RespectTheAmazon‼️ 🌍 In a world of endless crises, it’s easy to look away. 🌳 But the Amazon can’t wait. We need your help to make sure world leaders listen!

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

David Seymour is rage-baiting Christopher Luxon when it comes to the Paris Agreement - but Luxon mustn't bite. More info here: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

PRESS RELEASE: Seymour is rage-baiting on Paris Agreement - Luxon mustn’t bite www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #climate #methane

Did you know that the Act Party Minister, David Seymour, the one who opposes policies to cut climate pollution, is increasing the cost of your insurance by at least $200 per year to pay for…. climate disasters! greenpeace.nz/0vyzd8 #nzpol #ClimateCrisis

We're stoked for Ngāti Manuhiri and Pākiri locals who have fought hard to stop sand mining. This is win for people power - and confirmation that any type of mining around the moana that will be destructive to marine life - is not welcome in Aotearoa. www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/30/d...