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Climate Change

Help for farmers to know their greenhouse gas numbers

March 30, 2021 by Simon Edwards

A new guide and tools have been released to help farmers with measuring, managing, and reducing agricultural greenhouse gases. He Waka Eke Noa: The Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership has developed two information sources to help industry bodies and farmers understand their agricultural greenhouse gas emissions: Greenhouse Gases: Farm Planning Guidance, and The Greenhouse Gases […]

Positives in climate change report but methane’s different warming impact still not accurately accounted for

March 30, 2021 by Simon Edwards

Federated Farmers is very concerned the Climate Change Commission’s draft advice to the government on emissions budgets puts a much bigger ask on methane-emitters – largely farmers – to make up for a lack of action on those sectors emitting carbon dioxide. This is due to the terms of reference given to the Commission by […]

Feds proud to back NZ Dairy Story

March 24, 2021 by Simon Edwards

Sip that fresh glass of New Zealand milk, cut a wedge of our cheese, and know the farmers behind it are world leaders in animal welfare and climate change.  And unlike producers in many other nations, they do it without direct, free-trade distorting subsidies. Federated Farmers is proud to endorse the messages in The New […]

B+LNZ: MfE report on sequestration an important contribution to conversation

March 2, 2021 by Lauren Hale

Beef + Lamb New Zealand says the Ministry for the Environment’s report Net emissions and removals from vegetation and soils on sheep and beef farmland is valuable because it recognises there is significant sequestration happening on sheep and beef farmland in New Zealand and is part of an ongoing process to build understanding of this […]

Hotter, drier, CRISPR: editing for climate change

February 26, 2021 by Lauren Hale

Gene editing technology will play a vital role in climate-proofing future crops to protect global food supplies, according to scientists at The University of Queensland.  Biotechnologist Dr Karen Massel from UQ’s Centre for Crop Science has published a review of gene editing technologies such as CRISPR-Cas9 to safeguard food security in farming systems under stress from extreme and variable climate conditions.  […]

Farmers help identify solutions to reduce farm footprint

February 26, 2021 by Lauren Hale

New DairyNZ research shows farmers can identify ways to increase efficiency and reduce environmental footprint – but there will be challenges for some. The Greenhouse Gas Partnership Farms research project worked with farmers to identify and model how their farms might reduce both nitrogen loss and greenhouse gas emissions. “Making these gains will be the […]

New leader for Climate Change Ambassadors

February 12, 2021 by Lauren Hale

Award-winning dairy farmer Fraser McGougan has been appointed chair of the DairyNZ Climate Change Ambassadors. Climate Change Ambassadors are leaders for climate change action on dairy farms. They help communicate the challenges and opportunities dairy farmers face in playing their part to address climate change, alongside the rest of New Zealand. “The 13 ambassadors are […]

NZ needs its own Project Warp Speed on climate change

February 12, 2021 by Simon Edwards

by Peter Griffon, founding Director of the Science Media Centre. This article was first published in BusinessDesk. OPINION: The good news about the Climate Change Commission’s draft plan to meet our Paris Agreement commitments and avoid the worst of climate change is that it doesn’t hinge on technology yet to be developed. The commission has […]

Farmers see pluses and minuses in Climate Change Commission report

February 5, 2021 by Simon Edwards

By Andrew Hoggard, President Federated Farmers of New Zealand OPINION: The recent Climate Change Commission report had in it some useful recommendations and themes along with other points that are questionable. Pleasingly, the report does not ignore, but also does not fixate, on agricultural emissions. The public discourse In New Zealand for decades has largely […]

Fed Farmers: Our key takeaways from the Climate Commission report

February 4, 2021 by Leigh Catley

The report supports many of the issues and policy positions Federated Farmers have been advocating consistently for over the years, such as: The fundamental difference between long-lived stock emissions (carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide) and short-lived flow emissions (biogenic methane). The report makes it clear that methane does not need to reach net zero in order […]

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