Displaying items by tag: climate change

The Government's consultation process on freshwater proposals has been unacceptable, writes Todd Muller, National’s agriculture spokesman.

OPINION: People need to get their knives out of farmers’ backs and look at the science.

A new study has found that barn dairy’s carbon footprint is bigger than pasture-based dairy’s.

OPINION: ‘Policy on the fly’ has never been a good option and our Government appears to be combining this with ideology at the forefront and common sense trailing behind.

OPINION: The suggestion that groups such as DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb NZ are selling the sector out over agricultural emissions is way off the mark and fails to grasp the complexity of the issue.

OPINION: The media should allow debate surrounding the causes of climate change.

Foreign investment not only brings in money but links New Zealand into foreign markets, says former Prime Minister John Key.

Former Prime Minister John Key says imposing another tax on farmers now for greenhouse gas emissions won’t achieve much.

Climate change policy and the emissions trading scheme (ETS) are farmers’ biggest concerns.

OPINION: New Zealand's Action on Agricultural emissions places us all in a very uncomfortable situation.