Emissions

Miraka CEO urges the fast-tracked adoption of new technologies to keep NZ ahead in the mitigation race.

Report takes a hard look at the need for Emissions Trading Scheme reform.

Help with effluent methane may be on the horizon from promising Lincoln University research.

There is no use in central government giving tax cuts when local government takes more from us, says Alan Emerson.

Property taxes are being distorted by factors that bear no relation to the actual value of the land, says Alan Emerson.

AgriZeroNZ invests $9.9M in US company in race for ‘holy grail’ of emissions battle.

Factors such as sequestration account for major boost to efforts to reduce sector’s carbon footprint.

Economic survey flags drawbacks and risks in NZ’s trees for gas forestry offset policies.

Potential as a test bed highlighted as global agritech eyes our emissions efforts and accomplishments.

Agriculture remained NZ’s largest contributor for 2022, accounting for 53% of all gross emissions.

Commission’s calculations put more faith in trees to help lower agricultural emissions’ contribution to global warming.

News that independent panel will scrutinise emissions reduction aims is welcomed.

It is also set to finalise policy to keep agriculture out of Emissions Trading Scheme.

Getting promising new additives into free-ranging animals is the next hurdle – and a sizeable one.

NSW scientists are testing methods of getting stock to take their mitigation medicine.

Increasingly, positive emissions reporting will unlock capital, Fonterra says.

A few times a month satellite will pass over NZ and monitor emission trends from at least two of its main dairy areas.

Latest advice from Climate Change Commission advises government to reduce auction volumes as soon as possible.

National keeping election promise to sector, McClay says.

Customers will also be able to request carbon footprint certificates for specific New Zealand NZMP products.

Bovaer study shows efficacy of methane mitigator, albeit mainly on a dairy feedlot diet.

Four years to be spent measuring GHG emissions from grass-fed dairy cows.

It may not be carbon zero, but soil carbon can represent a significant reduction in GHG emissions, trust says.

Dairy companies in a ‘delicate position’ as they balance competing interests while tracking sustainability.

As wind farm construction ramps up to meet climate goals, we ask whether the consultation process is adequate.

Money would go to the development and technology transfer required for methane mitigation, says Keith Woodford.

Farmers and growers here embrace its soil-improvement properties.

Australian facility will eventually make enough methane mitigation product to supply 30,000 cattle a day.

Keith Woodford gets down to the grandfather effect, methane clouds and more as he nails down the elusive emission.

‘GWP star’ is favoured by farmers, says Keith Woodford, because it tells them what they want to hear.

Co-op ‘remains excited’ by results as trials test safety and efficacy of methane mitigation strategy.

Calls to encourage change in energy use come as coalition works to repeal electric car subsidy.

General manager for NZ markets full of hope for sector as he moves on.

Fir, poplar can aid transition to restoring indigenous forests.

The pee is not silent as scientists devise way to monitor ‘urination events’ by the sound they make.

New research contradicts the ‘closed loop’ theory of grassland GHG sequestration wiping out the emissions of the livestock grazing it.