Climate Policy
Primary Sector
Govt backs down on sequestration
On-farm sequestration will be crucial to reducing agricultural emissions.
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'Inaccurate' methane measure drives NZ climate policy
New Zealand is using a measure that overstates the global-warming impact of methane emissions by a factor of four to five, argue climate-change policy analysts Adrian Macey and Dave Frame.
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NZ’s carbon targets ignored domestic reduction potential
New Zealand's carbon emissions reduction commitments appear to have regarded as "irrelevant" what cuts could actually be achieved in the NZ economy.
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We uncover NZ’s $30 billion carbon target 'hole'
NZ's self-imposed carbon emissions reductions targets could cost $30b over the next eight years because of our heavy reliance on international markets.
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