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From wildlife protection to license to kill The Luxon Government’s RMA reform and Natural Environment Bill will make it easier for companies kill kiwi and other protected wildlife.

The Luxon Government’s RMA reform and Natural Environment Bill will make it easier for companies kill kiwi and other protected wildlife. Make your submission against this kiwi-killing plan before Friday, 13 February.
#climatecrisis #biodiversity
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A reminder that submissions on the RMA replacement legislation closes at 4.30 pm today at Parliament.

Clean drinking water is an essential need. Will the new RMA put it at risk? A decade on from the Havelock North water crisis, there are fears we're 'loosening the safety net'.

Clean drinking water is a basic human right - but the Government's RMA replacement will put it at risk. Read more 👇 thespinoff.co.nz/politics/12-... #nzpol

"Far from binding, the sum of these provisions means pollution of drinking water sources would be essentially unlimited, or at the very least extremely difficult to restrict." Subs close 4.30pm Friday 13 Feb with the Environment Select Committee. www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Our drinking water sources have close to no protection in RMA replacement The proposed replacement of the Resource Management Act would weaken legal protections for drinking water sources by removing clear national priorities and allowing trade-offs that risk further freshw...

Public Health Researchers concerns about the new Natural Environment Bill which "introduce a suite of provisions and exemptions that allow polluters and regulators to avoid responsibility for protecting and providing for communities’ access to safe drinking water. www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/our...

New electricity levy ‘not a tax’, Luxon says, as Hipkins chides ‘another kick’ for households The Government has short-listed possible proposals for a liquefied natural gas import facility.

Govt decision to go ahead with LNG imports is bad for the climate, bad for the environment, & will just increase electricity prices when there are cheaper renewable alternatives. This is further indication of the lack of Govt commitment to climate action
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BREAKING! Fast Track panel rejects seabed mining PRESS RELEASE Kiwis Against Seabed Mining are celebrating the Fast Track Panel's draft decision to decline Trans Tasman Resources' bid to mine the SouthTaranaki seabed. The draft decision was publis...

Congratulations to Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, Greenpeace Aotearoa, Climate Justice Taranaki, Ngāti Ruanui, and others involved in opposing this application. www.kasm.org.nz/post/breakin...

#national: Seabed Mining Rejection Hailed as Major Victory for Moana and Community Action

Claiming that mining 50 million tonnes of sea bed a year for 30 years would have little impact is just ludicrous. Its time that Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) and its fellow travellers read the facts and got out of the seabed mining game. waateanews.com/2026/02/07/n...

Fast track panel declines Taranaki seabed mining over risk to marine life In a draft decision, the panel found there would be a credible risk of harm to marine life.

Great news with the Fast Track Panel proposing the declining of the Taranaki Seabed mining project under the Fast Track law just shows just how bad this project is. Congratulations to all those involved in opposing the project. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

#BBNZ the high seas treaty is now international law. Over 83 countries and the EU have ratified the treaty. NZ is behind the times & has yet to ratify. NZ needs to introduce & pass ratification legislation if its going to influence high seas management from the start. #BBNJCOP

Make High Seas protection one of your New Year's resolutions: call on your country to ratify the #HighSeasTreaty & help advance to universal ratification.

Let’s keep the momentum going. Every ratification counts. https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/a-wave-of-messages-for-the-high-seas/

This summer the Coromandel is under siege from gold mining companies. This is a threat to the environment plus tourism and recreation opportunities as the mining companies only want to make short term profits for their overseas shareholders. #nofasttrack

One of the environmental success stories of 2025 was the #BBNJ Treaty reaching the required number of ratifications to come into force on 17 January 2026. The country ratifications continues to grow yet NZ has yet to ratify - we look forward to the legislation to do this in early 2026. #60ToGlobal

Season's Greetings from the High Seas Alliance!

Thank you for standing up for High Seas protection & helping achieve the milestone of 60+ ratifications of the #BBNJ Agreement and the upcoming entry into force.

We look forward to making waves together in the new year. #60toGlobal

This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley

Recommended read: In the Guardian, Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley wrote that the world must “urgently target methane” to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Fast track Wrong track : Fast decision Wrong decision. For those who want a read, link to decision doc that grants mining in conservation land, new toxic dams and even another pit at Waihī .. doc link at the top of the page… all 346 pages of it..

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A disaster for the Coromandel & conservation as Government Fast Track panel greenlights mining in conservation land, new toxic tailings dams, long tunnels, & another pit at Waihi. This occurred without a hearing, absence of public input, & consent shopping, and absent management plans. #nofasttrack

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Line graph time series of global land mean surface temperature anomalies for each January-November period from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly averaged for January-November 2025 was 1.85°C for global land areas. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. Data from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0.

Temperatures over global land areas so far this year are still the 2nd warmest on record (after last year)... 🫥

Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

The tragedy of entanglement of a humpback whale with a rock lobster pot buoy. As whale population recover there should be further efforts to prevent these deaths in the future.

Govt's whopping $256m clean up bill for one coalmine The Government will have to fork out $256m to clean up Stockton coal mine on the West Coast - more than triple earlier estimates.

The Govt cost mining clean-up continues to rise with a $256 million bill estimated for just one coal mining. These costs are just one of the growing costs of mining coal - its doesn't include climate change impacts & loss of endangered species & habitat. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

YouTube video by PBS Terra You’re Not Worried Enough About Sea Level Rise

Latest PBS Terra - Weathered episode is absolutely a must watch - extremely fast sea level rises are likely very soon!

This is a major decision on Conservation land that will likely need further domestic scrutiny and international consideration given the World Heritage listing of some of the land.
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Minister announces decisions on some stewardship land rejecting most proposals for addition to National Parks & proposes to dispose of 3286ha of stewardship land, including World Heritage land. This is a huge area in comparison the review panels proposed only disposing of 66.1ha.

This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through November 2025. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 426 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1931 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 339 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA ESRL. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.

The temperature is not going down like a rock.

Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Dangerous Fast-Track changes made as nature is reaching breaking point - Greenpeace Greenpeace says the passing of the Fast-Track Approvals Amendment Bill last night makes an already damaging law even more dangerous for Aotearoa’s environment.

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The passing of the Fast-Track Approvals Amendment Bill makes an already damaging law even more dangerous for Aotearoa’s environment.
#nzpol #climatecrisis
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- there are no process or requirement for public consultation. The Govt rejected changes put forward by opposition parties to restrain the provisions. The Bill also has retrospective provisions that make it easier for current Fast Track applications and undermining the environment. #fasttrackmess

Fast-track amendment passes under urgency, backtracks on controversial proposals Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop says one specific aspect of the fast-track regime "didn't go down well with people".

Govt passes Fast Track Amendment Bill in urgency & removes some of the worst proposals but leaves provisions that make a bad law worse. The Government Policy Statement provision has no criteria or "guardrails"and could be on anything Ministers want -
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Climate law is too important to be passed in urgency without Select Committee and allowing public submissions including allowing climate science to be presented. #methaneemissions #climatecrisis

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Government is intending to pass in urgency this week an amending climate Bill which severely weakens the methane reduction climate target, delay emission budgets, & remove the link between the Paris Agreement Commitments (NDCs) and the emission trading scheme. bills.parliament.nz/v/6/067c6e6f...