In this newsletter
– Climate actions that you can be a part of
– Latest news about the climate crisis
– Government changes to environmental Act
Climate Actions in June!
Komitianga Square – voting signups! All month
Extinction Rebellion’s effort to encourage people to vote continues! We set up at Komitianga Square with voting forms. We invite people to enroll. We celebrate when people are already enrolled.
The current government is currently trying to make voting harder for ordinary people (I wonder why.…) upon the most flimsy of rational. So, in response, we are trying to make it easier. Come along. Join us to help get this government out.
Climate Café
Sunday June 7th 2pm
Auckland Art Gallery Café
Join fellow rebels. Great company. Better conversations. Come long to chat whatever you want with a climate crisis focus. Bring that friend who is not sure about the climate crisis or what to do about it. Walk away as part of the community of activists, doing as much or as little as it right for you.
Heading For Extinction and What to do about it –
International Online Conversation
Sunday 24 August – 12-2pm
‘Heading for Extinction and what to do about it’ provides an up-to-date and honest picture of what is causing the climate emergency, and what needs to happen, urgently, to prevent the worst of climate disasters. There are opportunities for questions and discussion.
Come and explore how you can be part of the rebellion, starting now!
Invite friends. Join in yourself. This is a great introduction to XR. Then ask us how to support actions, join in and make a difference.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DXgssW4n7/
March for Peace
End complicity with Trumps Wars
20 June 12md. Aotea Sq
The fight for a safe environment and the fight for world peace are fundamentally linked. It is time for Aotearoa to return to a truly independent foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Let our country be a brave voice of reason in the world once again.
March with your XR Fellow Rebels. Bring your placards. Get dressed up. Costumes are loved by XR. Be your favorite endangered creature.
Climate news
More money for roading!
New Zealand’s obsession with cars continues!
The UN has ratified an ICC court ruling
– calling on countries to be held accountable for climate change.
Australia is pioneering
– changes in the use of household batteries to store renewable electricity.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/may/31/cheaper-energy-bills-battery-revolution-climate-crisis
Changes to the Climate Change Response Act – 2002
This story should be categorized under climate news, however, because of the gravity of this change and its possible impacts on New Zealanders and our society it is getting its own write up.
2019 – Mike Smith takes to the supreme court a case arguing that Fonterra, Genesis, Dairy Holdings, New Zealand Steel, Z Energy and BT Mining have a duty of care to reduce their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. The supreme court found in 2024 that this case – “had enough of a basis that it should be heard in trial.”
April 2026 – The Luxon Government announces changes to the Climate Change Response Act making it illegal for individuals to sue a company for climate damage. The case is therefore thrown out.
May 2026 – A briefing note is disclosed to the media showing the above mentioned companies wrote to the government about Smith’s case. The note explains, “why legislative intervention “is necessary and appropriate.” Then the government went and changed the law.
My question is this:
Should any company be able to lobby a government directly and achieve access to decision making in our system of government?
Does the rationale of “uncertainty for business’’ wash with you? Luxon stated – “What you don’t want – and none of us wanted – would be a precedent where there’s duplicating or a parallel system establishing massive amounts of uncertainty for businesses in New Zealand…” Perhaps what we don’t want is a government which can be lobbied by companies to avoid being held accountable for climate damage? Where is the certainty for New Zealanders that what we want will not be superseded to achieve ‘business confidence’?
Read about this story below:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/596197/a-co-ordinated-campaign-of-secret-lobbying-climate-activist
Join XR as we take this attack on our democracy to the streets, showing the companies they do not have social license to pollute adversely affecting the ecology all life depends on, threatening our mokopuna for generations to come.
Photo Gallery – Art Walk
Wednesday last week we joined Climate Liberation Aotearoa is a nationwide Street art action.
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XR TMA is totally financially dependent on donations. Maybe your contribution to limiting climate chaos is to make a regular contribution. These are gratefully received and enable us to be more effective.
For internet banking this is the account: Kiwibank: Extinction Rebellion Central 38-9022-0356965-00.
Extinction Rebellion’s Third Demand:
The democracy our forebears fought for is no longer serving us well. We need systemic change.
Me hanga, me whai anō Te Kāwanatanga i ngā whakatau a Te Runanga a Iwi, a te kotahitanga o ngā iwi mō te āhuarangi me ngā mōtika o ngā toiora katoa. Kia mau te hira me te oranga ki te tini me te mano puta noa i te ao. (He mea hanga Te Runanga i ngā tāngata korara o tētahi hāpori.)
The Government must assist in the construction and adhere to the decisions reached by citizen assemblies, and the united tribes about the climate and the rights of all life forms. That health, wellbeing and prosperity be secured for the myriad forms of life in the universe. (The citizens’ assembly is established by the residents of a community through sortition.)
End Fossil Fuels for <2 degrees and a liveable planet
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