Amanda Larsson

BREAKING NZ government sued over ‘dangerously inadequate’ emissions reduction plan In the first legal challenge to the plan, top climate lawyers claim the govt relies too heavily on forestry and failed to consult the public theguardian.com/world/2025/jun… #nzpol #climatelitigation

Scientists warn New Zealand could jeopardise its commitments under the #ParisAgreement & #GlobalMethanePledge by adopting a new target for biogenic #methane based on the goal of ‘no additional warming.’ In a letter to PM @chrisluxonmp they argue approach ignores the science and implies that high levels of methane emissions are acceptable when they are not. ft.com/content/2ea6a6… @SavageSusannah @IPCC_CH @Gmethanehub @UNFCCC

PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace lights up @Fonterra HQ with NZers’ passionate calls for environmental action greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press… #nzpol #toomanycows

The world’s biggest dairy companies pretend to care for the environment, animals, and small-scale farmers - even as they undermine regulations that could save the climate and improve animal welfare. On this #WorldMilkDay, spread the word about Big Dairy’s big Milkwash! Repost with #WorldMilkDay #StopBigAg

This week: 1) Nurses, teachers and carers lose out on $17 billion of unpaid wages to pay for tax cuts for the rich. 2) Roading & mining companies handed a licence to kill kiwi Passed through under urgency w/o public consultation or proper scrutiny. This is a cruel Government.

Bravo! We can, and we must phase out fossil fuels. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/20/pro…

Spend 30 years delaying climate action so R&D can find technological fixes for livestock emissions and then when it finally does you just refuse to adopt them because some brain-wormed conspiracists think they're dangerous.

Today in Sydney, representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui, along with six Greenpeace activists, have disrupted the annual general meeting of Manuka Resources, the Australian mining company planning to fast-track seabed mining in the South Taranaki Bight. Rukutai Watene of Ngāti Ruanui interrupted the meeting in Sydney, Australia by taking the floor to outline the reasons that he and his hapū oppose seabed mining in their rohe. The meeting was abandoned. Rukutai Watene said “I am unapologetic about interrupting the Manuka Resources shareholders’ AGM.  We’ve fought Trans-Tasman Resources three times in court, and three times we’ve won, but now TTR is using the Fast Track and we have to fight them again. From the mountain to the sea, from Aotearoa to Sydney, we will fight to protect our rohe and stop seabed mining from taking place.” Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Juan Parada says: “We are taking this action today with representatives of Ngāti Ruanui to demonstrate that New Zealanders don’t want seabed mining. It shows Trans-Tasman Resources and Manuka Resources that we shall resist them wherever they are – even here in Australia. “We’re highlighting the danger that Trans-Tasman Resources may get the chance to revive its zombie seabed mining project via the Fast Track, despite years of community opposition and rejection by the courts.”

BREAKING Ngāti Ruanui representatives and Greenpeace activists are taking action together at the mining giant Manuka Resources AGM in Sydney to protest its plans to begin seabed mining in Taranaki with Trans-Tasman Resources. More to come...

New Zealand's inexperienced #climate minister @SimonWattsMP says New Zealand won't be criticised for reopening offshore oil and gas at #COP29, and says it's consistent with our @beyondoilgas commitments. It's not. You can read them yourself.

From the misty peaks of Cape Reinga to the rain-soaked streets of Kawakawa, the national hīkoi mō Te Tiriti Monday rolled through the north and will soon arrive in Whangārei. rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-k…

This Govt has cut rural health services, increased pollution in the drinking water of rural people on private bores, and now is making it harder for rural kids to go to school. Not just a war on nature but a war on rural people. rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail…

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Luxon is giving agribusiness (@fonterra etc) weaker freshwater regulations and subsidised climate pollution. Meanwhile ordinary rural people get cuts to rural health, cuts to school buses, and more pollution in their drinking water. rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail…

Smells a bit like cheese up here. Makes sense. Milk powder factory.

Coming to you live from Fonterra’s Te Rapa milk powder factory. Fonterra is NZ’s worst climate polluter. They need to cut their methane emissions now.

"Meridian, which basically operates by letting free water run through dams built and paid for by the taxpayer decades ago, reported a jump in profits from $95 million last year to $429m this year." nzherald.co.nz/nz/energy-cris…

Police have removed the activists from inside the Straterra building, but those on the awning outside remain in place. #BanSeabedMining

Gen is locked to the front door of the Straterra HQ in Wellington to protest seabed mining. Two more people are locked inside and others are on the outside with a large banner. It’s time to #BanSeabedMining!