Former Fonterra director joins Climate Change Commission

Former Fonterra director joins Climate Change Commission
Gavin Evans
Former Fonterra director Nicola Shadbolt is among four new appointees to the Climate Change Commission. Shadbolt, chair of state-owned Plant & Food Research and a professor of farm and agribusiness at Massey University, spent nine years as a director of Fonterra. She was named today by Climate Change Minister James Shaw, who cited her expertise in land use and land use change. Other appointees named today were: Motu economist and policy fellow Catherine Leining; professor James Renwick, a climate scientist at Victoria University and 20...

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