Climate chief rubbishes claims farmers must wait for new technology to reduce emissions

Posted: 01 Aug 2024

The country's chief independent climate adviser says it is not true to say farmers need to wait for new technology before they can lower their planet-heating emissions - and it is also not true reducing agricultural production here would increase global emissions.

Both arguments have been used to justify delaying charging farmers for their greenhouse gases.

The government describes its plan for shrinking the roughly half of New Zealand's emissions which come from agriculture as "technology first".

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