Displaying items by tag: climate change

Farmer and former politician Sir Lockwood Smith is questioning the way that methane emissions from livestock are measured in NZ.

Environment Southland says its regional climate change strategy is taking shape.

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says updates to the New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme have been made to ensure New Zealand has a more credible market.

The Insurance Council of New Zealand (ICNZ) is urging the Government to take a leadership role on climate adaptation and build New Zealand’s resilience against the impacts of climate change on lives and property.

The Government has launched its new Climate Strategy, which it says is a comprehensive and ambitious plan to reduce the impact of climate change and prepare for its future effects.

The Government is pushing ahead with its election commitment to take agriculture out of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

OPINION: It surely seems to me that in today’s world experts abound. I hear or see the word attached to someone regularly in the media, all too flippantly in my opinion.

OPINION: The Government's recent announcement that methane targets will be reviewed is bringing relief to farmers.

Milk MaP's senior farm business consultant, Andrew Trounce, says thriving in today’s volatile farming climate is a complicated conversation.

The dry weather in some parts of the North Island has received medium-scale adverse event classification from the Government.