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New Zealand: Agriculture

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Farmers urged to start emissions liability calculations

Farmers calculate carbon emissions online

4 Jun 2008

The Carbon Farming Group has launched an easy to use, online calculator which enables farmers to identify how the Emissions Trading Scheme may affect them and their business.

US farmers getting a bum steer to promote "grown local"

US farmers told they're in a sustainability race

4 Jun 2008

The sustainability message is being delivered through to US farmers.

Go carefully on soil carbon sequestration - officials

30 May 2008

Soil-storage of carbon mightn’t be the answer to farmers’ prayers for a solution to agricultural greenhouse-gas emissions, and New Zealand must use caution in any decision to move into soil credits, officials say.

Lincoln University .. research still showing New Zealand food highly emission competitive

New Zealand food imports still the greenest option for UK

30 May 2008

By Angela van de Weerdhof. - New Zealand food producers should fare well when the European Union rings in carbon labeling on all imports.

Brtish Gas wants NZ as green test bench

29 May 2008

Further evidence is emerging that Contact Energy is a prime target in the acquisition by British Gas of Australia’s Origin Energy, parent of Contact.

Frank Brenmulh ... only 5% of rain used

Farmers: It's not just us who need to adapt to predicted water shortages

29 May 2008

Federated Farmers spokesperson Frank Brenmuhl says the Ecoclimate report is an interesting and useful document but "the population needs to adapt, not just farmers."

Droughts will be more extreme than the worse so-far recorded

New climate change report: Worse-ever droughts main NZ worry

28 May 2008

Fighting possible extreme droughts will be the main obstacle for farmers as a result of climate change in New Zealand but overall production is predicted to go up.

Irrigator at work in Canterbury .. water is short and droughts will get worse

Canterbury prepares water plan to cope with temperatures up to 3.3deg higher

28 May 2008

Canterbury will have a regional water strategy in place within 18 months as part of its strategy for dealing with the expected impact of climate change.

Home solar heating ... tangled consent process and high costs may still deter homeowners

Red tape consent process may still sink solar hot water incentive system

26 May 2008

By Angela van de Weerdhof .- A bureaucratic resource consent process may still stifle a new bid to have home owners take up grants for solar water heating.

Get soil recognised as carbon storer, say scientists

21 May 2008

Scientists working on quantifying the carbon-storage potential of New Zealand soils are urging officials to start work now on getting soil recognised in the next round of climate-change protocols.

Fed Farmers pushes to have soil carbon sequestration included in ETS

20 May 2008

Federated Farmers is calling for a greater push toward getting soil recognised as a legitimate method of storing greenhouse gases, saying that it would be a boon to farmers struggling to deal with emission from animals.

Charlie Pedersen

Worried farmers: We want to be part of the ETS

19 May 2008

Farmers want to do their bit and be part of the emissions trading scheme, says Federated Farmers president Charlie Pedersen.

Dairy operator eyes $75m loss without forestry offset scheme

12 May 2008

The emissions trading scheme could cost the owners of one of New Zealand’s biggest dairy conversions $75 million and see prime pastoral farmland remain locked-up in plantation forest unless a forestry offset scheme is introduced.

Gordon Ramsay

Celebrity chef could cook up a storm for our food exporters

12 May 2008

Suggestions by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay that British restaurants should be fined for having imported food on their menus are a sign of the misguided Northern Hemisphere perception of the environmental impact of the international food trade, and are potentially damaging to New Zealand, says Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Peter Silcock.

Halal butcher

Exporter: Food miles ploy major threat to UK halal meat trade

2 May 2008

Meat exporter Dr Haj Mohamed Samy Abdel-Al believes that the food miles syndrome underpins criticism in Britain of halal foods from New Zealand.

Orangutan ... in danger

Are our cattle killing the orangutan?

1 May 2008

Greenpeace is accusing the dairy sector of environmental irresponsibility after the Green Party revealed the sector is contributing to tropical rainforest destruction by importing huge quantities of palm kernel for cattle feed.

Champion farmers: We have to think differently

28 Apr 2008

Award-winning Far North farmers Lindsay and Erica Whyte say that there are many things that New Zealand farmers can do to improve their farms’ environmental impact – it’s just a case of starting to think differently.

City waste handy down on the farm

28 Apr 2008

A plan is being hatched to turn Auckland’s green-waste into valuable farm mulch.

NZ expert questions US praise of feedlot cattle

24 Apr 2008

An American claim that feedlot cattle are one answer for a world struggling with climate change has been challenged by a leading New Zealand environmentalist.

Dr Jon Tanner

Carbon storage in soil being researched: Major benefits possible for landowners

23 Apr 2008

A new move to store carbon in New Zealand soil is being formally researched and could be worth hundreds of millions to New Zealand farmers and other landowners.

Dr Morgan Williams ... enormous risk in agriculture not acknowledging climate change

Farming leadership criticised: industry at enormous risk

22 Apr 2008

New Zealand’s former Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment is calling for a radical rethink of our farming sector in the face of potential famine from climate change and world shortages of food, water and good-quality soils.

Climate change 'a problem for now'

22 Apr 2008

New Zealanders in the primary production sector believe that climate change is an urgent problem which needs addressing now.

Aussie farmers .. already carbon trading while Kiwi counterparts argue over the science

Kiwis dither while Aussie farmers pounce on carbon-trading scheme

22 Apr 2008

While New Zealand farming leaders openly question the existence of climate change, Australian landowners are queueing to join a national carbon-trading programme.

Frank Brenmuhl ... emisions reduction options "pie in the sky stuff"

Farm leaders, Agriculture Minister trade words on impact of ETS

21 Apr 2008

A row is brewing over the extent of the impact on farming of the proposed emissions trading scheme.

Farmer leadership slips back into attack on climate change science

21 Apr 2008

Federated Farmers wants the “religion” of climate changed reassessed before an emissions trading scheme is brought in, a stance which has failed to impress the Minister of Agriculture.

Sustainability Council ... no need to subsidise inhibitors

MAF report prompts call to include agriculture in ETS "now"

16 Apr 2008

The Sustainability Council says MAF’s report on the effects of the ETS on farm profits shows there’s no justification for delaying agriculture’s inclusion in the scheme.

Surpise MAF report: emision reduction measures will boost dairy incomes 30% under ETS

EXCLUSIVE: 'Surprise' MAF report shows some farms will profit from ETS

14 Apr 2008

Already well-off dairy farmers could get a 30 per cent profit boost from the ETS, according to an apparently prematurely released Government report.

Reporoa .. scene of NZ's biggest corporate forestry-to-dairy venture

FEATURE: NZ's biggest coprorate dairy venture putting water quality first

9 Apr 2008

A corporate farmer and regional planning authorities take a practical approach to large-scale forestry replacement.

Jeanette Fitzsimmons ... extra costs of thermal ban "negligible"

Greens won't back off ban on new thermal baseload power

2 Apr 2008

Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has told Carbon News she will not back off a proposed 10 year ban on new baseload thermal power generation.

Big immediate 60%+ nitrous oxide emissions cut possible for dairy farming

Nitrification inhibitors critical to clean dairying

19 Mar 2008

If every one of the country’s 5000-odd dairy farmers were to spray their pastures with Ravensdown’s Eco-N, nitrous oxide emissions from all of New Zealand’s pastoral farming would be cut to below 1990 levels, the company says.

Agricultural emission rumours discounted

16 Mar 2008

Rumours of a massive under-estimation of the level of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted by agriculture in New Zealand appear to be unfounded, with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) suggesting 50ha of exotic plantation will be enough to offset the emissions of a 500ha hill-country farm.

Rabobank's annual Ag report: fine balance needed on climate change

12 Mar 2008

Given New Zealand’s exposure to global agricultural commodity markets, any loss of international competitiveness as a result of the new scheme would be damaging, according to report co-author and Rabobank head of Food and Agribusiness Research and Advisory, Bill Cordingley.

Politics
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'Atrocious' and 'bizarre': experts slam Act Party's climate policy

Today 12:15pm

By Liz Kivi | The Act Party is promising to challenge New Zealand’s Paris Agreement climate target, while the coalition Government’s other minor partner, NZ First, also says it wants to reevaluate the country’s commitment to the international treaty.

Energy
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Meridian reports worst earnings in a decade

Today 12:15pm

Meridian Energy has posted its weakest result in 10 years, with earnings hit by a combination of droughts, low wind and declining gas supply.

Carbon emissions
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Marginal drop in last year's regional emissions

27 Aug 2025

Regional greenhouse gas emissions were down slightly last year, with a fall in gas supply leading to a big drop in Taranaki, but more coal burnt leading to higher emissions in Waikato, according to new figures from Stats NZ

Transport
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Air NZ declares surprisingly low SAF prices

Today 12:15pm

By Pattrick Smellie | Air New Zealand is able to source sustainable aviation fuel at between 1.5 and 2.5 times the price of conventional fossil fuels used for flying, all sourced from the US.

Forestry
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Minister of Climate Change Simon Watts

Certainty crucial to emissions cuts – Watts

20 Aug 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says that policy certainty is the Government’s primary lever for unlocking private capital and meeting climate targets, telling a carbon forestry conference that ETS settings are 'locked' through 2030.

Business
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Climate-friendly investment still lagging in NZ

Tue 2 Sep 2025

While local financial firms have made recent strides in climate governance and emissions reporting, New Zealand’s institutional investors are still missing in action when it comes to backing clean technologies and climate solutions, according to a new report.

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