New Zealand’s Minister James Shaw is co-chair of transparency talks at the summit, aimed at ensuring countries' emissions reduction pledges are verifiable. Then land owners (I include foresters, livestock farmers, arable farmers and horticulturalists here), need to play a careful public relations hand. Developed with Ravensdown’s EcoPond system, they have virtually eliminated the methane emitted from effluent ponds, thereby cutting approximately 5% off the farm’s methane emissions. Given that agriculture is (only) tasked with reducing methane emissions by 10% by 2030, this puts dairy farmers at least halfway there. For what it’s worth, New Zealand emits 0.17% of global emissions, although our per capita emissions are more difficult to ignore.

Source: Stuff November 12, 2021 19:03 UTC