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Agriculture is warming the earth faster than any other industry in Aotearoa. Yet attempts to reign in the sector’s emissions have fallen short once more. In a three part Kirsty Johnston investigates how a “world-leading plan” was born, and how it fell apart.
Stuff New Zealand, because of our ratio of farm animals to people, has the highest per capita methane rates. A principal analyst for the Climate Change Commission told a public webinar that more needs to be done to reduce agricultural emissions or the country will miss its methane targets, Marc Daalder reports. New Zealand is on track to miss its targets for reducing methane emissions, according to the Climate Change Commission. Sally Garden, a principal analyst for the Commission, told a public Zoom webinar that we would fail to meet our goal - of reducing methane emissions by 10 percent b...