Displaying items by tag: Environment
Defining ‘sustainable’ really important
Industry giant Unilever has reported that one in five (21%) consumers “would choose a brand based on the belief that it was produced sustainably”.
Protect peat or lose it
Peat soils in Waikato are crucial for the profitability of farming and environmental protection, particularly in summer.
Many ways to reduce ag emissions
No one immediate solution is available to New Zealand to deal with the problem of greenhouse gas emissions caused by agriculture.
Call to work together on climate change
New Zealanders must work together and start tackling the complex problem of the biological greenhouse gases from agriculture, says Dr Jan Wright, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.
Assessment key to success of Irish programme
An assessment tool known as the Carbon Navigator is used to assess each beef and dairy farm under Ireland's sustainability scheme Origin Green.
Ireland’s special brand of Green
Origin Green, a scheme that verifies the sustainability of Ireland’s food and drink production, now has 100% of the country’s dairy farmers and 90% of beef farmers signed up to its extensive auditing.
Emissions target “won’t be easy”
New Zealand’s Paris target, of 30% reduction in 2005 emissions levels by 2030, is fair and ambitious, and will not be easy to reach, says Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett.
$40 million on offer for lake clean-up
The equation is simple for dairy farmers around Lake Rotorua: agree to reduce the nutrient discharges from your farms into the lake and collectively pocket $40 million.
Comparing dairy system footprints
A Lincoln University PhD student is putting New Zealand’s vaunted paddock-based dairy industry to the test.
$3m for climate change projects
Thirteen research projects have received funding approvals totalling $3.1 million through MPI’s Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change (SLMACC) research programme.