Emissions

The effectiveness of seaweed and seaweed extracts is currently being tested in research involving NZ industries and scientists.  

Land uses changes are threatening the national livestock tally and the viability of rural communities, Allan Barber says.

Agri innovation on the agenda when world’s top scientists, indigenous scholars and policymakers gather in 2025.

Clean Car Discount hailed as successful by prime minister.

Green Directive designed to root out unsubstantiated claims on climate impact of goods and services.

In 2021 gross GHG emissions declined 0.7%, largely thanks to agri cuts.

Roslyn Downs is closing in on its targets gram by gram, lamb by lamb.

More than 90% of dairy and livestock producers have done the calculations on greenhouse gas emissions from their farms.

Commerical forestry launches High Court action against proposed new fee structure.

Farmers Weekly asks New Zealand’s six biggest parties to spell out their policies for the primary sector.

From the essential oils in the wildflowers to the shape of the land, every aspect of farming on a Canterbury farmlet is being scrutinised and analysed in the service of finding a better way.

‘We think full transparency on our emissions profile is vital for our social licence.’

The target, once it is revealed, will be based around emissions intensity and efficiencies.

Generic environmental labelling banned along with claims based on emissions offsetting.

Basket of complementary policies proposed in Labour Party's ‘climate manifesto’.

Federated Farmers say the Climate Change Commission to take this significant new research into account and set targets based on a climate warming approach. 

EU moves to clip on an emissions surcharge for all ships into their ports.

‘If anything, other sectors of the economy have been asked to do the heavy lifting to compensate for the lack of action on agricultural emissions.’

Next year’s review will take into account new report on methane metrics.

New study raises questions about how GHG emissions are measured.

Round of meetings to discuss emissions reduction and other environmental issues in Ireland and UK.

Pricing should not be left for ministers to set, says climate change minister.

Physics professor unpacks the latest thinking about agri and other emissions.

O’Connor says critics need to spell out their position for levy payers.

‘Pricing emissions will not give us the outcome we want,’ BLNZ says.

Trials have shown that sea lettuce will gorge itself on pollutants in freshwater, potentially removing a significant source of contamination from NZ waterways.

They say govt proposal lacks detail and is ill-timed amid sector’s financial storms.

Emissions pricing won’t start until two years from now, proposal says.

Ill-timed and over-reaching, says planters of government plans to reform scheme.

A Victorian-era tram will run on wood waste in Scion trial.

Report commissioned by levy body proposes excluding most exotic plantings from permanent category.

Country’s first application for a methane inhibitor approved by EPA.

Certification process calculates GHG for each of state farmer’s 100 farms.

Putting the consumer first might be one way to sharpen our focus as farmers, says David Eade.

This makes the continued wrangling around He Waka Eke Noa and regulated reduction targets something of a sideshow to market reality, writes Richard Rennie.

The country’s largest primary processors are also ramping up their carbon focus, partly in response to overseas supplier demands and to NZ consumer expectations.