Cattle moving along a farm track on Dill farm in the Kaipara Hills in Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images
Climate experts have urged Ireland not to follow New Zealand’s footsteps, after it announced significantly weaker methane targets for agriculture based on a new goal of “no additional warming”.
New Zealand is the first country in the world to formally adopt the goal – known as “temperature neutrality” – which redefines the aim of climate action as stabilising (rather than minimising) the warming impact of greenhouse gas emissions.
Often termed Global Warming Potential* or GWP-star, it takes into account that methane’s heat
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