The Green Party is calling on Auckland Council to do more to protect urban trees and housing developer Aedifice Property Group to restore and replant the native forest it cleared, and protect all the remaining trees on Ngahere Road in Pukekohe after a significant number of native trees were cut down.

The Green Party’s advocacy has secured an amendment to the Natural and Built Environment Bill at a crucial stage of the Parliamentary process to ensure  the Government provides national direction on protecting urban trees.

The Green Party welcomes today’s release of the report of the Ministerial Inquiry into slash and sediment, and are clear that the forestry industry must foot more of the bill.

The Green Party has today launched a petition calling for conservation land to be protected from mining by big overseas companies such as Mineralogy International Limited, which Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is a director of.

Christopher Luxon and the National Party have once again presented another lazy, back-of-the-napkin policy to Aotearoa.

New Zealand’s rivers, lakes and freshwater are in crisis and there needs to be a more ambitious Government plan to clean them up and protect against nitrate contamination, the Green Party says. 

The Green Party is today welcoming the release of the Government’s waste strategy, but says it has a big gap without action on the container return scheme for beverage containers.

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

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

Evidence shows that relying on offsets to reduce agriculture’s impact on the climate will not work, the Green Party says.