The Livestock Sectors role in Climate Change 

Federated Farmers recognises that New Zealand has made a commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement. We also understand that emissions from agriculture account for half of NZ's total emissions - our emissions profile is globally unique, and because of this, the way we design climate change policy is also unlike any other country in the world. We are working closely with Government as they implement their climate change agenda and we're involved with working groups on climate change science, including the Biological Emissions Reference Group. Federated Farmers is a signatory to HE WAKA EKE NOA document which outlines the primary sector’s climate change commitment to reduce net on-farm emissions.

Read our submission on the Zero Carbon Bill here for a comprehensive understanding of our position on climate change and the ETS. 

Useful Reports on the Livestock Sectors role in Climate Change 

A solution to the misrepresentations of CO 2-equivalent emissions of short-lived climate pollutants under ambitious mitigation, published in the Journal of Climate and Atmospheric Science, June 2018 - click here to go to report 

Net zero for agriculture, Oxford Martin Programme on Climate Pollutants, August 2019 - click here to go to report

Climate Change and Land, an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems- click here to go to report

Improved calculation of warming equivalent emissions for short-lived climate pollutants, published in the Journal of Climate and Atmospheric Science, September 2019- click here to go to report

Farms, forests and fossil fuels: The next great landscape transformation?  Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, March 2019 - click here to go to report