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NZ reacts to major climate report Newsroom 31/01/2021
Greenpeace calls it “underwhelming”, while the National Party urges caution. David Williams reports
Like most others, Greenpeace campaigner Steve Abel has only started reading the Climate Change Commission’s report this afternoon.
But that’s been long enough to form a view on its agricultural section.
“It’s going to sound brutal - but pretty underwhelming, to be honest,” he says. “Certainly in regard to the ag stuff it barely tinkers and has very low ambition on reducing methane emissions.”
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reported by Marc Daalder, it will be hard for the agricultural sector to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emission to zero without reducing herds to zero, and some reductions are called for. In particular, the dairy herd is likely to shrink about 15 percent by 2030.