On the one-year anniversary of New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Climate Emergency declaration, Greenpeace Aotearoa has positioned a cheeky, four storey high, crowdfunded “climate emergency to-do list” billboard on a wall near Parliament in Wellington.
The giant hand-written note signed ‘Aroha, Greenpeace’ acknowledges the Labour-led Government’s 2018 decision to end new offshore oil exploration and gives a wry nod to Ardern’s claim that climate change was her generation’s nuclear free moment. It then lists three key climate actions the Government has failed to implement: cutting synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, reducing cow numbers and backing farmers to shift to regenerative organic farming.