Displaying items by tag: SCOPE 3 EMISSIONS

Farmers must follow directives from their processors on sustainability or risk losing markets for their products, says Waikato Federated Farmers executive Richard Myers.

OPINION: When Fonterra announced its Scope 3 emissions target this month, you might have thought that would please Greenpeace.

OPINION: Fonterra farmers finally know the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of their co-operative’s much hyped Scope 3 emissions target.

Farmers say Fonterra's Scope 3 emissions target, unveiled last week, is "incredibly ambitious" and will require stakeholder support to achieve.

Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says Greenpeace has shown itself as an anti-farming lobby by criticising Fonterra’s new on-farm emissions targets.

Fonterra Co-operative Council chair John Stevenson believes the co-op’s Scope 3 emissions target is achievable.

Global food giant Nestlé has welcomed Fonterra’s newly released Scope 3 emissions target.

Fonterra will shortly be introducing a Scope 3 emissions target, which will seek to reduce emissions intensity on supplying farms.

OPINION: There is unease among Fonterra’s 9000 farming families on what the looming Scope 3 emissions target may look like.

There is some unease among Fonterra's shareholder base as the co-operative sets out to tackle Scope 3 emissions generated by the business.