Agriculture is among the sectors considered vital to a low emissions future for New Zealand in the Climate Change Commission’s blueprint for addressing climate change. The Commission highlights the importance of further research into reducing agriculture biogenic methane emissions as well as the Government’s work to build the world’s only farm-level emissions measurement, management and pricing system.
The Commission’s final advice sets out the total amount of emissions New Zealand must cut over the next 15 years.
It also provides three different pathways the Government could follow to keep within the proposed emission budgets.
A press release from the Prime Minister’s Office highlights these points: Continue reading
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