UPDATE: Crucial carbon reduction recommendations due tomorrow

UPDATE: Crucial carbon reduction recommendations due tomorrow
Pattrick Smellie
(adds Dairy NZ comments on methane target at the eighth par) By Pattrick Smellie July 15 (BusinessDesk) - Crucial recommendations affecting the New Zealand farming and electricity sectors are due for release by the government's Interim Climate Change Committee tomorrow (Tuesday) in Wellington. The ICCC recommendations will coincide with the final day for lodging submissions on the government's flagship climate change legislation, the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill, which seeks to enshrine in law the country's comm...

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