Agriculture sector needs emissions progress to safeguard export markets

Agriculture sector needs emissions progress to safeguard export markets
Methane production in cattle is a complicated process. (Image: NZME)
Greg Hurrell
New Zealand farmers face the imminent prospect of non-tariff barriers being raised against them if methane emissions aren’t reduced soon, prominent scientist Sir Peter Gluckman says.But as others noted, they may also have a hard sell convincing export market consumers to accept methane inhibitors.Gluckman was the first chief science adviser to the Prime Minister and was keynote speaker on day two of the Agriculture and Climate Change Conference in Wellington on Dec 4.He said NZ needed to greatly accelerate its research technologies in adv...

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