Tackling agricultural emissions

The New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC)’s work has been highlighted in a film, produced recently by Motu.

This film, which you can watch below, is the product of years of research into how New Zealand can reduce its agricultural greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) to reduce climate change. It covers the basic science along with current and potential future technological solutions. With a range of views from farmers to scientists to economists, the film also looks at the challenge of mitigating agricultural GHGs. It covers how New Zealand can develop policy and actions to not only deal with NZ’s emissions, but lead the world in showing other countries it can be done.

You can watch more Motu videos here.

NZAGRC produces new factsheets

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The New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) has produced its first three new factsheets, which are aimed at providing background and a broader context to the work of the Centre and the challenges this country faces regarding climate change and greenhouse gases (GHGs).

These handy items talk about how livestock agriculture impacts climate change, how climate change is affecting NZ agriculture and the complicated ground of GHG metrics.

The fact sheets are: ‘The impact of livestock agriculture on climate change‘; ‘Impacts of global climate change on New Zealand agriculture‘; and  ‘Economic and Policy Implications of Alternative GHG Metrics’. You can download them here or click the image above.

Further factsheets are planned on specific research areas.