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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 7h

New: Climate Change Minister Simon Watts concedes the Government’s new methane target could result in outcomes not consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C above preindustrial levels – a threshold mandated in New Zealand and international law.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/c...

Climate minister admits new target may breach global 1.5C goal

Climate Minister Simon Watts admitted the Government's new methane target may not be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C.

newsroom.co.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 23h

It’s ironic that this happens the day after the Luxon Govt announced it will make the climate crisis worse by letting the dairy industry off the hook for its superheating methane emissions.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 21h

“EPA said the biggest threats to overall health of the country’s natural water bodies include animal waste, fertilisers & pesticides running off farmland and forestry”.

Politically backed ongoing wreckage of our natural environment for profit continues unabated.

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again

Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

www.irishtimes.com

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 23h

Why New Zealand’s Lower Methane Target Could Warm the Planet More
#TooManyCows #nzpol #climatechange
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Why New Zealand’s Lower Methane Target Could Warm the Planet More

New Zealand, one of the world’s largest dairy exporters and a signatory of the Global Methane Pledge, this weekend watered down its 2050 target for cutting methane emissions from livestock and farming...

www.bloomberg.com

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

Two years since the 2023 election. If you want a really long read, chronologically tracking all the different attacks on nature by the Luxon Govt... well this is it! Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa

It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Two years on: The cost of the Luxon government’s #WarOnNature www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... via @greenpeace.org.nz #nzpol

Two years on: The cost of the government’s war on nature - Greenpeace Aotearoa

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.

www.greenpeace.org

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday Luxon Govt embraced climate science denialism by stating they will never have regulations or pricing to drive down methane emissions, NZ's largest climate gas. Next day scientists state climate change has led to tipping point for corals. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Client Challenge

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

Two years since the 2023 election. If you want a really long read, chronologically tracking all the different attacks on nature by the Luxon Govt... well this is it! Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa

It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.

www.greenpeace.org

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

While the NZ Govt is systematically dismantling policies to cut climate pollution, there is a climate adaptation conference in Christchurch! Outgoing Buller mayor cries as he talks about risks facing town www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Outgoing Buller mayor cries as he talks about risks facing town

Jamie Cleine was in tears as he spoke about increasingly damaging floods.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

When the NZ's coalition govt took office nearly two years ago, its #WarOnNature started.

In that time, they've made a bewildering number of changes leading to environmental harm.

Greenpeace Aotearoa head @russelnorman.bsky.social has undertaken the gargantuan task of tracking them all👇
#nzpol

Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa

It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.

www.greenpeace.org

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 4d

Nicola Willis promised affordable tax cuts and zero borrowings - OR she would resign.

Instead, Willis borrowed $12,000 million i.e. $12 billion & has created another $8 billion hole in the budget. She's now down $20 billion and counting #nzpol #kiwi

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

NZ world leaders: votes for women, nuclear free and the first country to legislate to weaken its climate targets.

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Scientists fear weaker methane target signals wider retreat from climate action

After cutting methane targets, New Zealand has a choice: shoulder the burden at huge cost - or cause more warming to the planet.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Developer found guilty of failing to make political donations to the governing parties - otherwise could have been fast tracked. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Stuff

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Luxon abolished the Govt fund to help industry decarbonise, as he said he didn’t want to subsidise them and carbon price signals were the answer. Then he gave $200m for more fossil fuel exploration and abolished price signals for agribusiness, the biggest polluter.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Tarata (Lemonwood)

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

One of the Govt's top priorities www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

www.stuff.co.nz

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 2d

The main reason city streets are dangerous for children isn’t because of crime.

It’s because of cars.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

NZ's great leap backwards. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack

Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.

newsroom.co.nz

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

One of the symptoms of the 'resource curse' is that Govt becomes captured by one industry. In NZ that is dairy. Methane is the dominant GHG for NZ but it is now exempt from prices or regulations to cut it, which means all other sectors have to carry the weight of emissions reductions.

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 2d

Methane bubbling up in #Antartica - I wish it weren’t so. NZ farmers just let themselves off the hook to ensure they pump out more methane #climatecrisis #greed #nzpol

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Methane makes up 48% of NZ's climate pollution. The Govt's grossly irresponsible announcement today that they will never have a price on methane, combined with their policies to increase the dairy herd, means that they have zero intention of meeting NZ Paris obligations.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Remember the old rightwing argument that all we needed to do was put a price on climate emissions and let the market do its thing? Well the necessary step was for the Govt to put a price on emissions. The current far right NZ Govt just announced it will never put a price on emissions.

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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d

Amelia Wade dives into the Family Boost policy, which was designed in a hurry using guesswork, and is now so complex one Kindergarten has hired a staffer explicitly to help parents navigate it:

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Families miss out on FamilyBoost after being caught by quarterly income rule

Parents hoping to claim childcare rebates have been rejected because their quarterly incomes are too high ‒ despite being told it was based on what their households earned yearly.

www.thepost.co.nz

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