Agriculture is warming the earth faster than any other industry in Aotearoa. Yet attempts to reign in the sector’s emissions have fallen short once more. In a three part Kirsty Johnston investigates how a “world-leading plan” was born, and how it fell apart.
Great summary. Looking forward to part 2.
Living amongst the Southland Dairy community, I can honestly say I cannot believe the influence that they reign on Local Councils (regional and district) as well. They have repeatedly come up with schemes that delay any meaningful change and often claim best practice changes without actually measuring outcomes.
Yeah, it is interesting the amount of influence agriculture has in this country. As it shows in the article, agriculture is a large part of our exports… but it’s not actually that big in terms of our total economy.