Steve Abel is a long-time environment and climate activist with an impressive record of successful advocacy as a part of campaigns to end native logging, stop Marsden B coal-fired power station, and against offshore oil and gas drilling. He is a founding member of urban tree protection group Mana Rākau and most recently has worked with Greenpeace to highlight the impact of nitrate contamination on rural communities believing that access to safe drinking water is a basic right of all people. 

Abel joined the Greens in the late 1990s because of its whole-of-society charter and manifesto. He believes upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi, social justice, and environmental integrity are all essential to a viable society and liveable planet. 

He takes a particular interest in the protection and restoration of forests, freshwater and oceans; and transformation of agriculture to ecological methods. Steve lives in Rānui in West Auckland and in 2023 was elected to Parliament as a Green Party List Candidate. 

He sits on the Primary Production and Petitions Select Committees and holds the portfolios of: Agriculture, Minerals and Resources, Crown Māori Relations, Animal Welfare, Racing, and Food Safety.


Our people

Marama Davidson

Marama grew up all over Aotearoa; born in Auckland, she then lived in Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch. When Marama was nine, her grandfather p...
Read More

Chlöe Swarbrick

Chlöe is the Co-Leader of the Green Party, and your local Member of Parliament for Auckland Central. She is also the Party’s spokesperson for Clima...
Read More

Julie Anne Genter

Julie Anne Genter (List MP: 2011-2023, Electorate MP: 2023 - …) is the Green MP for Rongotai and has been a Green list MP for over 12 years. Julie...
Read More

Teanau Tuiono

Teanau has over 20 years experience as an activist, an advocate, and organiser at local, national, and international levels. He attributes his inte...
Read More

Lan Pham

Lan is of Vietnamese and Pākehā (Irish, English) heritage from Ōtautahi, Christchurch. Born and bred in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, she’s been...
Read More

Ricardo Menéndez March

Ricardo has led successful campaigns to end benefit sanctions, lift incomes, and better protect migrant workers. Growing up in Tijuana, Mexico, Ri...
Read More

Hūhana Lyndon

Hūhana Lyndon, nō Ngātiwai, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Whātua, Waikato Tainui and Pare Hauraki. Daughter of the North, her roots, life and career are firml...
Read More

Scott Willis

Scott grew up in rural Otago, exploring the hills, mountains, waterways and bush. The connections between people and with nature are an essential ...
Read More

Kahurangi Carter

Kahurangi (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui) was raised in a small farming community in the Waikato. She grew up with a deep connection to Ranginui and Pap...
Read More

Celia Wade-Brown

Celia Wade-Brown QSO was Mayor of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, from 2010 - 2016. She was an elected Councillor for fourteen years b...
Read More

Lawrence Xu-Nan

Born in Tianjin, China, Lawrence grew up in East Auckland where he attended school. He then went on to the University of Auckland and received his ...
Read More

Tamatha Paul

Tamatha (Ngāti Awa, Waikato Tainui) hails from the mighty Tokoroa where her dad drove trucks and mum worked as an aged care worker. Tamatha’s up...
Read More

Francisco Hernandez

Francisco Hernandez brings his passion for climate change issues and his background in political activism and the public service to the Green Party...
Read More