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17 Nov 2025 21:49:40

COP30: Climate change minister defends weakened methane emissions target

Posted: 13 Nov 2025

Technology, rather than taxing methane emissions, will be what brings New Zealand's agricultural emissions down, the climate change minister says.

It was "not economically rational" to bring down emissions by reducing the herd size, Simon Watts said.

Watts made the remarks ahead of travelling to Brazil later this week to attend the high-level portion of COP30, the annual global climate summit.

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