The Green Party is today welcoming reports of Government progress towards having no new mines on conservation land.

The Green Party welcomes an historic new global agreement to protect 30% of the planet for nature by the end of the decade and calls on the Government to follow it with immediate action to protect native wildlife. 

The Green Party backs the demands of Forest and Bird and calls on the Government to take urgent action to restore the health of the Hauraki Gulf/Tīkapa Moana/ Te Moananui ā Toi.

The Green Party will continue to push for strong protections of core public assets so they cannot be sold off against the wishes of New Zealanders.

A decision by a United States Court to ban seafood imports from New Zealand shows the Government needs to do more to protect Māui dolphins. 

New Zealanders deserve strong protection against the future privatisation of water assets, the Green Party says.

Long overdue changes to the Crown Minerals Act are a welcome step in the right direction but the Government needs to go further to end the nonsensical search for fossil fuels.

The Government has missed a crucial opportunity to redesign the resource management system with climate and nature at its heart. 

Greater local oversight and control, seven instead of four entities, stormwater staying with councils, and stronger safeguards against privatisation are among the changes the Green Party wants to three waters legislation.  

The Green Party is today celebrating a landmark decision by the Government to support a moratorium on seabed mining in international waters.