Author: David Tong

Board Member of Greenpeace New Zealand

Greenpeace New Zealand coopted me onto their board in February 2015. They approached me in January. I was really honoured that they asked me. Greenpeace needs no introduction. We are an independent international campaigning organisation that provides a voice for our fragile earth. Though a global organisation, with regional offices in several countries, Greenpeace has a special place in many […]

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New Adopt a Negotiator: Why I Fast: New Zealanders and the Philippines’ typhoons

I haven’t eaten today. I am fasting with the global #Fastfortheclimate movement. I’ve written about the Fast here before, and I won’t repeat the story of Yeb Saño launching the Fast during the Warsaw climate talks in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. That is why I fast: to call for climate justice in solidarity – not […]

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CEO, P3 Foundation

CEO: Jan 2016 – current Advisory Trustee: Jan – Sept 2015 Chair/Trustee: 2011-2015 Trustee: 2010-2011 Co-Founder: 2009 P3 Foundation is New Zealand’s youth movement against extreme poverty in Asia and the Pacific. We want our generation to see the end of extreme poverty. generation. Extreme poverty is unjust and unacceptable. Importantly, we believe there is no one path to […]

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Herald interview: Climate change talks: Dead rats and other ‘disturbing metaphors’

Twelve hours before the Lima climate talks ended, John Weekes from the Herald interviewed me about developments. Luckily, I called it right, and the talks ended just as predicted. Talk of swallowing dead rats and “circumcisions turning into amputations” has spiced up the fragile global climate change talks dragging on in Peru. New Zealand lawyer […]

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