While the Dunedin City Council’s target of net city-wide carbon neutrality by 2030 excludes biogenic methane, city council documents show agriculture is the second-largest emitting sector in the city (at 35% of gross emissions), behind only transport (at 43%). This week, Otago Regional Council chief executive Sarah Gardner confirmed the council was undertaking a whole-of-Otago emissions inventory assessment. The council had engaged a consultant to assess its organisational carbon footprint, similar to the carbon-emissions profile of the city council, she said. But the regional council was now also going through a tendering process to appoint a firm to inventory Otago’s greenhouse gas emissions. Work to reduce the region’s carbon footprint would follow the regional assessment.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 22, 2020 15:33 UTC