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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 8h

Ouch!

"The government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis."

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...

#nzpol #climatechange

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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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 14h

Even butterflies are losing their colours as forests are replaced by monocultures.

Without protection for native habitats, the most vibrant species could vanish.

It is not too late. In forests allowed to recover, colour and life return.

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 20h

Methane makes up 48% of NZ's climate pollution.

The Luxon Govt's Trumpian announcement that they’ll never penalise methane pollution, along with moves to INCREASE the dairy herd, is a huge slap in the face for our Pacific neighbours and many NZers already facing the impacts of the #ClimateCrisis.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 20h

The NZ dairy industry has bent the Luxon Government to its will and we’ll all pay the price👇

Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 20h

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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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 21h

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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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown, via @Greenpeace.org.nz www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown - Greenpeace Aotearoa

The NZ Government will rewrite NZ's once bipartisan climate change law to weaken methane targets and exclude agriculture from the ETS.

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Farming will have to change, or it will get changed.

Climate change effects expected to hurt farm viability in next decade
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #ClimateCrisis

Climate change effects expected to hurt farm viability in next decade, study finds

A new report found irrigated dairy farms are particularly at risk because water supplies are expected to become less reliable in some areas.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

BOOM!

Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt

Shane Jones is no doubt copping an almighty earful from the fishing industry.

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/10/w...

Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt

Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says the Waikato Regional Council proposal is an abuse of the RMA process and he's taking advice on his next moves, reports Andrew Bevin.

newsroom.co.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

What more can we do than weep for the dead, offer assistance, call for accountability and keep pushing for a lasting peace and the end of Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine?

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

The Palestinian people need much more than a ceasefire.

It’s been two years of genocide, unprecedented destruction, children killed and maimed in their thousands. Families torn apart. Wounds that will take generations to heal.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

So many ridiculous posts asking why we aren’t celebrating the ceasefire.

If you witnessed a brutal beating in the street, you wouldn’t cheer when it ended.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 2d

Peace is more than an absence of war!

Welcoming today’s ceasefire in #Gaza, Greenpeace calls for humanitarian organisations to be given unrestricted access to deliver aid in the face of famine and genocide.

Full statement:

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Alt text:
Destroyed residential buildings in the Jabalia area, northern Gaza Strip, photographed after Israeli forces withdrew in January 2009. Rubble and debris stretch across the landscape where homes once stood, with people seen moving among the ruins.

Photo credit:
Photo by RafahKid / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Date and location:
Jabalia, Gaza Strip — 20 January 2009

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

For a while yes, on secondment.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Madeleine Habib, captain of the Conscience vessel of the Sumud Flotilla, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison.

Habib has been told she will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs a waiver.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Australian on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla told she will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring a comms specialist here at Greenpeace International.

Come work with me!

It's a great team, important work with flexible working.

#job #communications #media #socialmedia

workfor.international.greenpeace.org/o/content-ed...

Greenpeace International - GPI Content Editor - Americas

Greenpeace International is seeking a Content Editor to enhance the global profile and impact of Greenpeace and its campaigns through strategic content creation, curation, and community engagement.

workfor.international.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

The notorious @thejuicemedia.com has just helped the Government of New Zealand with a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Not sure how they got it past Luxon, Seymour and Peters though, OMG!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...
#nzpol

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 2d

Real peace comes with freedom of choice, freedom from fear, freedom from famine, freedom from environmental contamination and freedom to dream.

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Ceasefire must mark the beginning of real peace in Gaza - Greenpeace International

Welcoming today’s ceasefire in Gaza Greenpeace calls for humanitarian organisations to be given unrestricted access to deliver aid in the face of famine and genocide.

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 2d

“Peace is more than the absence of war. The sound of bullets and bombs must now give way to the sound of aid convoys delivering aid to address the acute and chronic suffering across the Gaza Strip.”
- Greenpeace

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 3d

"Nitrate emergency starts here"

Greenpeace brings water crisis back to @Fonterra’s HQ, via @greenpeace.org.nz www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

#TooManyCows

‘Nitrate emergency starts here’: Greenpeace brings water crisis back to Fonterra’s HQ - Greenpeace Aotearoa

Greenpeace has taken rural New Zealand’s nitrate emergency straight to the top, by projecting a modified Fonterra sign reading “The nitrate emergency: It starts here” onto the dairy giant’s Auckland&h...

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 3d

Bottom trawling a triple threat to marine environments – new report, via @greenpeace.org.nz www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

#ProtectTheOceans

Bottom trawling a triple threat to marine environments - new report - Greenpeace Aotearoa

Greenpeace is calling for urgent action to restrict bottom trawling after a new government report highlights the compounding effects the destructive fishing method has on climate change, habitat degra...

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

Luxon caught out again.

Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers

The Prime Minister is urging young people to look for work in the sector amid changes to the Jobseeker benefit.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

Join the call for a more sustainable, resilient and affordable energy future!
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/cle...

PETITION: Choose a clean energy future

Sign on now to call on the Luxon Govt to embrace a Clean Energy Future for NZ, invest in solar and wind, and reject new fossil fuel electricity generation and a new fossil gas import facility.

action.greenpeace.org.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

Why no-one is fixing the energy market rort draining Kiwis
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Current affairs: why no-one is fixing the energy market rort draining Kiwis

OPINION: Successive governments promised competition would deliver cheaper power, groceries and banking. Instead, New Zealand has ended up with cosy oligopolies that gouge consumers.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

New Zealand's electricity market is a total rort.

Households pay high prices so that big energy companies can increase profits.

We’re not in a cost of living or energy crisis at all. It’s actually a “markets gouging us blind while raking in massive profits” crisis.

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