All articles by Russel Norman
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Be Conservative on Climate and Nature
Russel Norman's address to the Blue Greens Conference
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Why Christopher Luxon is so badly wrong about oil exploration
In his early days as leader, John Key updated National’s position on Nuclear-Free New Zealand and distanced himself from his predecessor’s abhorrent “Orewa Speech”, setting a new direction for the…
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From climate denial to greenwashing
Why is greenwashing the biggest challenge that the climate movement faces at the moment. How did we get here?
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2021 Annual Impact Report
In 2021 we got used to campaigning on the climate and biodiversity crises while living through a global pandemic. But it wasn’t the same. We didn’t do a lot of real-world actions because of all the lockdowns and other Covid restrictions.
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Ukraine: Greenpeace calls for freeze on Russian oligarch assets
Greenpeace Aotearoa’s executive director Russel Norman says the organisation “condemns the Russian government’s cruel invasion of Ukraine and calls on President Putin to withdraw his forces and cease military operations.”
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COP26: Greenpeace challenges Ardern Govt to get real on climate
The New Zealand Government is under pressure to come up with a real climate emission reduction plan to present next year, after the COP26 climate summit agreed that Governments must…
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2020 Greenpeace Annual Impact Report
The end of 2019 marked an intense period of activity for Greenpeace targeting theoffshore exploration activities of Austrian oil company OMV. Along with our allies, weoccupied oil supply ships, we…
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Climate Summit: Following NZ’s lead on climate action would be a disaster
Greenpeace is calling out Jacinda Ardern’s lack of action on emissions from agriculture as the Prime Minister speaks at the Leaders Summit on Climate convened by US President Biden.
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RMA replacement must protect environmental bottom lines
Whatever replaces the RMA must effectively regulate our most polluting industry - dairying. That means stopping nitrate pollution entering freshwater from milk processing, synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and too many cows.
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Wairakei Pastoral: The dairy company competing with Auckland for drinking water
One big dairy corporation, owned by millionaire rich-listers, is taking more water from the Waikato River than the entire city of Auckland