The road to 2025 – reporting agriculture greenhouse gas emissions

The road to 2025 – reporting agriculture greenhouse gas emissions
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Greg Hurrell
The farming sector has so far met most of the interim goals towards pricing agricultural emissions from 2025, the environment select committee heard last week. The hearing was part of the government's greenhouse gas emission budgets, with the first such budget running from 2022-25. The committee was given a progress update by Julie Collins, deputy director general of policy and trade at the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).The Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) stated that agriculture contributes 50% of New Zealand's gross gr...

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