Rhiannon Mackie
@rhiannonm.bsky.social
She/they
Communications on agriculture/freshwater/climate at Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz 🌏
All opinions my own
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
rhiannon.mackie@greenpeace.org
Communications on agriculture/freshwater/climate at Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz 🌏
All opinions my own
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
rhiannon.mackie@greenpeace.org
Obviously we need emissions to go down, not just remain stable, but this is a BIG shift if the trend continues (and a rare good news story). #climate
If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Obviously we need emissions to go down, not just remain stable, but this is a BIG shift if the trend continues (and a rare good news story). #climate
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A fishing competition without any fish?
Canterbury's Rakaia salmon are disappearing, and intensive dairying is the main culprit.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol
Canterbury's Rakaia salmon are disappearing, and intensive dairying is the main culprit.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol
The Press
www.thepress.co.nz
February 10, 2026 at 11:09 PM
A fishing competition without any fish?
Canterbury's Rakaia salmon are disappearing, and intensive dairying is the main culprit.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol
Canterbury's Rakaia salmon are disappearing, and intensive dairying is the main culprit.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol
The UK Govt has raised concerns over New Zealand's climate action rollbacks, following the weakening of our methane target last year.
This could have major implications for our trade agreements dependent on climate ambition. #nzpol #climate
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
This could have major implications for our trade agreements dependent on climate ambition. #nzpol #climate
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Explain your climate policies to us, UK ministers asked NZ counterparts
New Zealand’s trade minister initially downplayed global interest in New Zealand’s new climate policies.
www.stuff.co.nz
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The UK Govt has raised concerns over New Zealand's climate action rollbacks, following the weakening of our methane target last year.
This could have major implications for our trade agreements dependent on climate ambition. #nzpol #climate
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
This could have major implications for our trade agreements dependent on climate ambition. #nzpol #climate
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Being involved in the youth climate movement changed my life and taught me to fight like hell for a better world.
I co-wrote a chapter on #climate education and youth activism in NZ for Routledge - but movement knowledge shouldn't stay behind paywalls. My DMs are open to anyone who wants more info!
I co-wrote a chapter on #climate education and youth activism in NZ for Routledge - but movement knowledge shouldn't stay behind paywalls. My DMs are open to anyone who wants more info!
Routledge Handbook of Young People’s Environmental Activism
This Handbook addresses the new watershed moment in youth environmental activism: the collision of the historic and globally prominent youth-centred movements on the one hand, with established, consol...
www.routledge.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Being involved in the youth climate movement changed my life and taught me to fight like hell for a better world.
I co-wrote a chapter on #climate education and youth activism in NZ for Routledge - but movement knowledge shouldn't stay behind paywalls. My DMs are open to anyone who wants more info!
I co-wrote a chapter on #climate education and youth activism in NZ for Routledge - but movement knowledge shouldn't stay behind paywalls. My DMs are open to anyone who wants more info!
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Please report on the arrest of Don Lemon and on the arrest of Georgia Fort. Those who are only reporting on the arrest of Don Lemon are not only missing the full story story, they are also adding profoundly to the risks and undermining the safety of independent women journalists everywhere.
January 30, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Please report on the arrest of Don Lemon and on the arrest of Georgia Fort. Those who are only reporting on the arrest of Don Lemon are not only missing the full story story, they are also adding profoundly to the risks and undermining the safety of independent women journalists everywhere.
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Citizen journalists are Minneapolis’s unsung heroes. Without their videos of ICE shootings, we wouldn’t know what's really going on.
Read more in the latest edition of #ClimateBeat:
Read more in the latest edition of #ClimateBeat:
Citizen Journalists Are Minneapolis’s Unsung Heroes — Covering Climate Now
On Sunday afternoon, CNN anchor Jake Tapper was interviewing US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hours after Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti. Suddenly, CNN cut away to live coverage of ...
coveringclimatenow.org
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Citizen journalists are Minneapolis’s unsung heroes. Without their videos of ICE shootings, we wouldn’t know what's really going on.
Read more in the latest edition of #ClimateBeat:
Read more in the latest edition of #ClimateBeat:
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Statement from the National Association of Black Journalists on the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.
nabjonline.org/blog/nabjout...
nabjonline.org/blog/nabjout...
NABJ OUTRAGED AT ARRESTS OF DON LEMON, GEORGIA FORT ‘THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS NOT OPTIONAL’
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is outraged and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents, and […]
nabjonline.org
January 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Statement from the National Association of Black Journalists on the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.
nabjonline.org/blog/nabjout...
nabjonline.org/blog/nabjout...
Cool cool cool
Three-year temperature average set to exceed 1.5C for first time on.ft.com/3MnJ8nQ
Three-year temperature average set to exceed 1.5C for first time
Data shows 2025 is on track to be the third-warmest on record after November temperature rise of 1.54C
on.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Cool cool cool
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Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
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This is not a reason to give up, it's a reason to double our efforts to end the fossil fuel era before it ends us.
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This is not a reason to give up, it's a reason to double our efforts to end the fossil fuel era before it ends us.
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A haunted house but it's just Chris Luxon and Nicola Willis taking money from hard-working New Zealanders to give landlords, tobacco companies and oil giants billions in government handouts #nzpol #halloween
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A haunted house but it's just Chris Luxon and Nicola Willis taking money from hard-working New Zealanders to give landlords, tobacco companies and oil giants billions in government handouts #nzpol #halloween
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The NZ Govt has admitted that new methane targets do not align with goals to keep global warming below 1.5C - a limit set in place to prevent catastrophic climate change. The move breaches both international law and free trade agreements with the EU and the UK.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/c... #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/c... #nzpol
Climate minister admits new target may breach global 1.5C goal
Climate Minister Simon Watts admitted the Government's new methane target may not be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C.
newsroom.co.nz
October 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The NZ Govt has admitted that new methane targets do not align with goals to keep global warming below 1.5C - a limit set in place to prevent catastrophic climate change. The move breaches both international law and free trade agreements with the EU and the UK.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/c... #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/c... #nzpol
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I thought I’d have a go at answering the question: what’s the flow on effect on emissions budgets from the methane cuts?
The answer was worse than I had anticipated
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
The answer was worse than I had anticipated
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Scientists fear weaker methane target signals wider retreat from climate action
After cutting methane targets, New Zealand has a choice: shoulder the burden at huge cost - or cause more warming to the planet.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I thought I’d have a go at answering the question: what’s the flow on effect on emissions budgets from the methane cuts?
The answer was worse than I had anticipated
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
The answer was worse than I had anticipated
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Your summary of the shitfuckery this Government has just announced:
- Big Dairy doesn't have to pay for its emissions, despite being the country's worst climate polluter
- Ambition on methane emissions reductions has been slashed in favour of business as usual.
#nzpol
- Big Dairy doesn't have to pay for its emissions, despite being the country's worst climate polluter
- Ambition on methane emissions reductions has been slashed in favour of business as usual.
#nzpol
October 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Your summary of the shitfuckery this Government has just announced:
- Big Dairy doesn't have to pay for its emissions, despite being the country's worst climate polluter
- Ambition on methane emissions reductions has been slashed in favour of business as usual.
#nzpol
- Big Dairy doesn't have to pay for its emissions, despite being the country's worst climate polluter
- Ambition on methane emissions reductions has been slashed in favour of business as usual.
#nzpol
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PRESS RELEASE: Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #climate
Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The NZ Government will rewrite NZ's once bipartisan climate change law to weaken methane targets and exclude agriculture from the ETS.
www.greenpeace.org
October 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
PRESS RELEASE: Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #climate
In what can only be described as an act of Trumpian stupidity and outright climate denial, NZ's government has weakened our 2050 climate change targets and permanently excluded the country's biggest climate polluter from paying for their pollution.
#nzpol #climate
More info in thread 🧵
#nzpol #climate
More info in thread 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
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Official UN finding:
#Israel has committed #genocide in the #Gaza Strip
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#Israel has committed #genocide in the #Gaza Strip
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
www.ohchr.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Official UN finding:
#Israel has committed #genocide in the #Gaza Strip
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#Israel has committed #genocide in the #Gaza Strip
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Simon Watts is pre-emptively turning the blame for lack of climate action onto Fonterra and the dairy industry, ahead of announcing a new agricultural methane target that is widely expected to be *weaker* than the existing one.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/10/c...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/10/c...
Climate minister calls out dairy industry
Simon Watts is pre-emptively turning the blame for lack of climate action onto Fonterra and the dairy industry, ahead of announcing a new methane target.
newsroom.co.nz
September 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Simon Watts is pre-emptively turning the blame for lack of climate action onto Fonterra and the dairy industry, ahead of announcing a new agricultural methane target that is widely expected to be *weaker* than the existing one.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/10/c...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/10/c...
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Unless it's literally your job, you never need to watch videos of people being killed. It harms you and doesn't help them.
By the way, you don't have to watch murder videos, and there is a real cost to all the "brutal voyeurism" the internet inflicts on us, as I wrote (and talked with @henryhenryhenry.com about) in 2023. drewharwell.com/stories/what...
What these violent videos do to us
The "golden age of brutal voyeurism" is bringing the horrors of war back home.
drewharwell.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Unless it's literally your job, you never need to watch videos of people being killed. It harms you and doesn't help them.
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Unbox the materials for our Vote Clean Drinking Water campaign with us!
We're calling on all Environment Canterbury election candidates to defend fresh water - and we need your help! To order flyers, posters, stickers, and fence signs, head to our website 👉 greenpeace.nz/votewater
#cleanwater
We're calling on all Environment Canterbury election candidates to defend fresh water - and we need your help! To order flyers, posters, stickers, and fence signs, head to our website 👉 greenpeace.nz/votewater
#cleanwater
September 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Unbox the materials for our Vote Clean Drinking Water campaign with us!
We're calling on all Environment Canterbury election candidates to defend fresh water - and we need your help! To order flyers, posters, stickers, and fence signs, head to our website 👉 greenpeace.nz/votewater
#cleanwater
We're calling on all Environment Canterbury election candidates to defend fresh water - and we need your help! To order flyers, posters, stickers, and fence signs, head to our website 👉 greenpeace.nz/votewater
#cleanwater
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Our new journal paper has hit the front pages and got wide coverage on the airwaves this morning.
The paper critically assesses “temperature neutrality” as a basis for Ireland’s long-term climate target. We find it amounts to backsliding on climate ambition and locks in food system unfairness.
The paper critically assesses “temperature neutrality” as a basis for Ireland’s long-term climate target. We find it amounts to backsliding on climate ambition and locks in food system unfairness.
August 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Our new journal paper has hit the front pages and got wide coverage on the airwaves this morning.
The paper critically assesses “temperature neutrality” as a basis for Ireland’s long-term climate target. We find it amounts to backsliding on climate ambition and locks in food system unfairness.
The paper critically assesses “temperature neutrality” as a basis for Ireland’s long-term climate target. We find it amounts to backsliding on climate ambition and locks in food system unfairness.
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The climate advice they didn't want you to see.
[finally, six days before I finish up, I get to use that headline formula 😅]
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
[finally, six days before I finish up, I get to use that headline formula 😅]
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Officials warn of damage to diplomatic relations in secret climate change memo
Officials raise concerns on government's climate change stance in mistakenly released advice.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The climate advice they didn't want you to see.
[finally, six days before I finish up, I get to use that headline formula 😅]
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
[finally, six days before I finish up, I get to use that headline formula 😅]
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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PRESS RELEASE: ECAN study confirms Canterbury nitrate issue escalating www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #water
Environment Canterbury study shows nitrate pollution worsening - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling on Environment Canterbury (ECan) to put an end to dairy expansion on the plains to protect drinking water.
www.greenpeace.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
PRESS RELEASE: ECAN study confirms Canterbury nitrate issue escalating www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #water
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Meat and dairy companies are cooking the climate - but now, the Government has let them off the hook for reporting their emissions 🤦
These climate polluters can try to hide the numbers, but they can't hide the consequences of their climate emissions.
Take action now: greenpeace.nz/b95joo #nzpol
These climate polluters can try to hide the numbers, but they can't hide the consequences of their climate emissions.
Take action now: greenpeace.nz/b95joo #nzpol
August 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Meat and dairy companies are cooking the climate - but now, the Government has let them off the hook for reporting their emissions 🤦
These climate polluters can try to hide the numbers, but they can't hide the consequences of their climate emissions.
Take action now: greenpeace.nz/b95joo #nzpol
These climate polluters can try to hide the numbers, but they can't hide the consequences of their climate emissions.
Take action now: greenpeace.nz/b95joo #nzpol