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Technology, rather than taxing methane emissions, will be what brings New Zealand's agricultural emissions down, the climate change minister says.
It was "not economically rational" to bring down emissions by reducing the herd size, Simon Watts said.
Watts made the remarks ahead of travelling to Brazil later this week to attend the high-level portion of COP30, the annual global climate summit.
A former climate change commissioner and internationally respected climate scientist, James Renwick, says banking on agritech alone was "risky". The government should be heading to the summit with a strengthened emissions target, not a weakened one, he said.
The government announced last month it would lower New Zealand's methane emissions target, from a 24-47 percent reduction by 2050 to a 14-24 percent reduction, after a review found that was sufficient to meet a 'no additional warming' goal, advocated for by industry.
The government has also ruled out
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