NZ's environmental watchdog challenges climate policy on farm emissions and forestry offsets
- Written by Ivan Diaz-Rainey, Associate Professor of Finance & Director, Climate and Energy Finance Group, University of Otago
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has warned that afforestation is a risky approach to combatting climate change.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA
The greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, from burping and urinating livestock, account for about half of New Zealand’s total emissions. These agricultural emissions have...